Aid Dependency Quotes

The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of managerial power and paternalism.

Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.

Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.

The humanitarian aid system is built on a concept that when disaster strikes, outside agencies provide a temporary helping hand until people can take back control of their own lives. But across the world, we see millions of people caught in semi-permanent crises. As each year goes by, they are less and less likely to break free.

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

The overriding purpose of foreign assistance must be genuine development, not the assuaging of Western guilt or the care and feeding of the massive network of career professionals, non-profit organizations and private sector companies that constitute the global aid industry.

Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.

I have made revenue collection a frontline institution because it is the one which can emancipate us from begging. If we can get about 22% of GDP we should not need to disturb anybody asking for aid; instead of coming here to bother you, give me this, give me this, I shall come here to greet you, to trade with you.

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

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

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

If poverty and underdevelopment are primarily consequences of poor institutions, then by weakening those institutions or stunting their development, large aid flows do exactly the opposite of what they are intended to do.

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

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?'

May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue?

Foreign Aid is like opium. There are withdrawal pains if you remove it.

Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.

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

There is a dismal record of failure in Africa on the part of the developed world that shocks and shames our civilization.

I find the sort of unwitting European American outsider who wants to come to Africa to help is a very problematic construction. It's problematic because you don't want to tell people don't aid, don't help, when people feel a need to.

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

We do not have a budget support. We are now fully independent in terms of requirements, but we still have a need for development assistance separate from the budget. So all the economic aid we receive is for development assistance.

It seems that other parts of the world ought to be concerned about what we think of them instead of what they think of us. After all, we're feeding most of them, and whenever they start rejecting 25 cents of each dollar of foreign aid money that we send to them, then I'll be concerned about their attitude toward us.

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.