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This myth may really rattle your brain. Lots of well-meaning people believe foreign aid will cure poverty.

U2's lead singer, Bono, stops almost every concert to tell his fans that Western governments can end poverty.

"We have the resources, we have the know-how to end extreme poverty," he said last year in Chicago.

Angelina Jolie visited a model village in Africa to promote what she believes would be possible if our governments would just give more. The village she visited is the creation of Jeffrey Sachs, director of the U.N. Millennium Project and author of the best-selling "The End of Poverty." He's also America's most vocal promoter of giving more foreign aid to Africa.

"How can we go another day when 20,000 children are going to be dying of these stupid reasons that are utterly preventable?" he asked.

Sachs helped persuade Western governments to double foreign aid to Africa to $50 billion. And the people in his model village were thrilled about getting all this help from Sachs and Jolie.

But journalist June Arunga doesn't think this will really help in the long run.