Chart of the day: How much aid is too much?
Thursday, June 10, 2010 at 12:01AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in Africa, Chart of the day, development

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Experience says once a country gets above approximately 15% of the GDP in aid, they're in trouble (it's a diversionary effect that also allows the government to care less what its public thinks).

This slide shows net aid as a percentage of government expenditures, where the percentages are naturally going to stand far higher.

What stands out:  

1) the single-digit crowd of North Africa and the southern cone (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, South Africa) and the outlier of Equatorial Guinea; and 

2) the 100-plus-% crowd of Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, C.A.R., Congo, Mozambique, Malawi, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Uganda (98%).

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