The Objectivist Center
Jim Peron, Writer
The Objectivist Center is a national not-for-profit think tank promoting the values of reason, individualism, freedom, and achievement in American culture. Jim Peron is a writer for The Objectivist Center (www.objectivistcenter.org) who lives in Africa. His most recent book is Zimbabwe: The Death of a Dream. The following is reprinted from the article "Foreign Aid to Africa Won’t Help, and It May Very Well Hurt," copyright, The Objectivist Center. For more information, visit www.objectivistcenter.org. Just an extra $100 billion or so can eradicate world poverty, says Harvard economist Jeffrey Sachs.His claim is that if the West, particularly the United States,…
