Paul Kagame Quotes

Aid should shift to investment. This will help countries stand on their own.

The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.

I think a lot of the problem with foreign aid and things like that is you go in, give a bunch of stuff, and then it runs out. It's about helping them learn how to continue to be sustainable and live.

We've used aid to build capacities so we won't need aid in future.

As wonderful as charity is, that money runs out. It's not sustainable. It lasts for a certain period of time and it's gone. What i really think people need is the opportunity to help themselves.

One thing that I love about World Vision is every place they go, they go in with an exit plan, they don't want people dependent on them.

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

The Playground of Foreign Aid Experimentation: From 2006 to 2011, development aid from countries and multilateral organizations amounted to more than $30 billion, with limited results, much of the funds fueling mismanagement and corruption.

The test for aid to poor nations is therefore whether it makes them capable of being productive. If it fails to do so, it is likely to make them even poorer in the - not so very - long run.

The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem.

It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.

One of the things we have to acknowledge is that if you look at Haiti, many billions of dollars have gone into development aid there that have not been effective.

Of course, aid is only one small part of international development. Some of the greatest benefits to the world's poorest can be achieved through policy changes by developed countries.

Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves.

Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?'

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

Development donors ... put a positive spin on awful recipient governments by asserting that while things are bad, they are getting better.

Humanitarian help will never solve any problems. It is necessary to help us create some kind of economic infrastructure.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.