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The Munk Debate on Foreign Aid
On Monday, June 1^st, 2009, the third semi-annual Munk Debates was held in Toronto. Paul Collier, Professor of Economics at Oxford University, Hernando de Soto, the President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, Stephen Lewis, Co-Founder and Co-Director of AIDS-Free World, and Dambisa Moyo, an economist and the author of Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way For Africa, discussed the opportunities and hazards of foreign aid, by debating the resolution: "be it resolved that foreign aid to developing countries is doing more harm than good."