Hi Slav,
My understanding isn't that Aryan implies that any charity is harmful;
To quote: "Speaking of Bill Gates and charity....charity creates dependency and stifles innovation and development. If you ask me, one of the major reasons why we still have poverty and hunger in this world is due to the left's need to 'save the world'." (http://lists.luv.asn.au/private/luv-talk/2013-June/001613.html)
I reject argument of guilt by association. Ms. Moyo's case against handouts is solid. Her Goldman employ doesn't matter. I honestly don't know why Goldman Sachs is demonised - they are Red Hat of banks.
I think everyone agrees that foreign aid based on political expediency is an issue, although Moyo has overestimated the role quite significantly. Just by the numbers alone it should be evident that the dependency thesis is quite overrated. Again the resource curse (that is, monopolistic propertarian approaches to natural resource wealth) is far more significant. If you want to have a look at a country that *doesn't* to this, read up on the economic and political miracle of Botswana. The Red Hat of banks? That's quite insulting to Red Hat. Goldman Sachs is notoriously corrupt (cf., http://dailybail.com/home/corrupt-across-the-globe-how-goldman-sachs-helped-...). Which makes it ironic how they have well-fed, housed, and clothed, economists trying to preach to the Africans about their foreign aid is corruption! -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 61 432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt