Brian Behlendorf Quotes

After 43 years and $568 billion in foreign aid to the continent, Africa remains trapped in economic stagnation.

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.

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.

We seek to move from aid to trade.

The best way to help countries around the world is to help them with trade.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.

I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

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.

To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.

Toward the middle and end of the Fifties, West European countries became somewhat more important as providers of aid to underdeveloped countries. It was partly due to the prodding of the United States that these countries, as they regained economic viability, should shoulder their share of the aid burden.

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

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

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.

Trade creates jobs.

Politicians make the claim that our government has helped multinationals globalize and that businesses that globalize are somehow 'crony capitalists.' This is hogwash.

[N]o real leader can aspire to champion both the logic and the morality of free trade without confronting the practice that undermines both: currency manipulation.

I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we've had about 50 years' experience at failing with foreign aid.

You would think that the U.S. government would not think that American firms needed subsidizing to function in developing countries, provide advice, but they do.

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

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.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

Companies like yours have got to do business with Japan [because] that country must be economically sound.

Economic cooperation makes the American people and others around the world more prosperous and secure.

I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and see the products of capitalism, they will become hungry for freedom themselves.