This year’s eighth Annual Lecture welcomes an exciting panel to discuss the topic "Foreign Aid: Dead Right or Dead Wrong?":
* Dambisa Moyo is the author of Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa.
* Yash Tandon published Ending Aid Dependence at the same time last year.
* George Biddle is the IRC's executive vice president.*

Global financial pressures have added new urgency to the well-established debate around issues of aid effectiveness, issues which are particularly critical in the contexts where the IRC works – contexts of extreme vulnerability, war and displacement. What is the appropriate international economic response to these populations in dire need?