Although
billions have been spent on foreign development and food aid to
Africa in the decades since World War II, over half a billion
people remain undernourished in Africa today according to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture—a number that's 53 percent higher than it
was in 1992 when the government first began accumulating such
figures.
While the reasons for continuing poverty are manifold, Western government programs such as food aid and agriculture and ethanol subsidies deserve their share of the blame. So argues the new book Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, written by Wall Street Journal reporters Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman. Senior Editor Brian Doherty recently discussed the failures of aid policy with Scott Kilman.
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