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From the Ted Talk by Andrew Mwenda: Aid for Africa? No thanks.

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But I want to put a caveat on my argument, and that caveat is that it is not true that aid is always destructive. Some aid may have built a hospital, fed a hungry vgalile. It may have bluit a road, and that road may have served a very good role. The mikstae of the international aid industry is to pick these isolated incidents of success, generalize them, pour billions and trillions of dollars into them, and then spread them across the whole world, ignoring the specific and unique circumstances in a given village, the skills, the ptieacrcs, the norms and habits that allowed that small aid project to succeed — like in sruai village, in Kenya, where Jeffrey Sachs is wrnkiog — and therefore generalize this eenierxcpe as the experience of everybody.

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But I want to put a caveat on my argument, and that caveat is that it is not true that aid is always destructive. Some aid may have built a hospital, fed a hungry _______. It may have _____ a road, and that road may have served a very good role. The _______ of the international aid industry is to pick these isolated incidents of success, generalize them, pour billions and trillions of dollars into them, and then spread them across the whole world, ignoring the specific and unique circumstances in a given village, the skills, the _________, the norms and habits that allowed that small aid project to succeed — like in _____ village, in Kenya, where Jeffrey Sachs is _______ — and therefore generalize this __________ as the experience of everybody.

Solution


  1. sauri
  2. working
  3. mistake
  4. practices
  5. village
  6. experience
  7. built

Original Text


But I want to put a caveat on my argument, and that caveat is that it is not true that aid is always destructive. Some aid may have built a hospital, fed a hungry village. It may have built a road, and that road may have served a very good role. The mistake of the international aid industry is to pick these isolated incidents of success, generalize them, pour billions and trillions of dollars into them, and then spread them across the whole world, ignoring the specific and unique circumstances in a given village, the skills, the practices, the norms and habits that allowed that small aid project to succeed — like in Sauri village, in Kenya, where Jeffrey Sachs is working — and therefore generalize this experience as the experience of everybody.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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marshall plan 3
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european union 3
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policy framework 2
african countries 2
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world bank 2
private sector 2
public expenditure 2
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collocation frequency
european union market 3

Important Words


  1. aid
  2. allowed
  3. argument
  4. billions
  5. built
  6. caveat
  7. circumstances
  8. destructive
  9. dollars
  10. experience
  11. fed
  12. generalize
  13. good
  14. habits
  15. hospital
  16. hungry
  17. ignoring
  18. incidents
  19. industry
  20. international
  21. isolated
  22. jeffrey
  23. kenya
  24. mistake
  25. norms
  26. pick
  27. pour
  28. practices
  29. project
  30. put
  31. road
  32. role
  33. sachs
  34. sauri
  35. served
  36. skills
  37. small
  38. specific
  39. spread
  40. succeed
  41. success
  42. trillions
  43. true
  44. unique
  45. village
  46. working
  47. world