Give aid money to specific projects

CONGRATULATIONS to Steven King on his enlightened article (Irish Examiner, July 19).

He put his finger on the root cause of Africa’s poverty by rightly identifying corruption as the biggest problem facing people in the third world today.

He also highlights that debt relief is not as effective as people think and points out that cancelling debt to corrupt regimes does not automatically bring improvement, or even change, in the fundamental areas of education, health and anti-poverty strategies.