"I Don't Want Money. I Want Trade Agreements"

So says the president of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade:

I don't want money, and I don't want hand-outs. I want trade agreements with European firms who will come to Senegal and work with African firms. Anything else is a waste of time.

More power to him. More here.

Reason reviewed Robert Guest's excellent book on African economic development (and tragic lack of same), The Shackled Continent, here.

Hat Tip: Marian Tupy.