Kay Granger Quotes

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense...but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, it can and must be effective.

We seek to move from aid to trade.

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.

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

'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries

The developing world is poor. It needs capital.

Africa does not need more exhortations. She needs support in strengthening her structures. She needs concrete resources with which to pursue her course of action.

You don’t produce development through aid; you produce it through private investment which creates jobs.

Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

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.

Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

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

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

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.

We will focus on the Zambian people as both the end and the means of development

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.

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.

International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

The U.K. should see overseas aid as an investment in the future potential of a market and shouldn't be used as a stick to bash trading partners and strategic allies with.

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