《热带非洲的市场与国家:农业政策的政治基础》内容简介：贝茨从非洲的农产品产量及出品量下降这一现象出发，探寻这一现象的政治根源及领导者采取对其政治的社会有害的政策的原因。他从以下三个方面研究政府对市场的干预：家产品、农业投入及农民从城市购买的商品。

We all want to help. Over the past fifty years $1 trillion of aid has flowed from Western governments to Africa, with rock stars and actors campaigning for more. But this has not helped Africa. It has ruined it. Dambisa Moyo's excoriating and controversial book reveals why millions are actually poorer because of aid, unable to escape corruption and reduced, in the West's eyes, to a childlike state of beggary. "Dead Aid" shows us another way. Using hard evidence to illustrate her case, Moyo shows how, with access to capital and with the right policies, even the poorest nations can turn themselves around. First we must destroy the myth that aid works - and make charity history.