Laura Freschi is Associate Director of the Development Research Institute at New York University and a blogger for Aid Watch.
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Why Are We Supporting Repression in Ethiopia?
November 15, 2010
Foreign aid observers have often worried that Western aid to Africa is propping up autocratic regimes. Yet seldom has such a direct link from aid to political repression been demonstrated as in “Development without Freedom,” an extensively documented new report on Ethiopia by Human Rights Watch.