Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.
Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipient country to later get by without foreign aid. Otherwise, it is bad aid.
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.
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.
The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America's future.
Big meetings and big talk are not enough in a world that is hungry for change. Big action - world leaders keeping their promises, and developing countries committing resources while listening ardently to the voice of the small farmer - is needed to bring big results and prosperity to the world's poor.
When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.
You know what the problem is with world hunger? We've been sending them food.
Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
International development aid is based on the Robin Hood principle: take from the rich and give to the poor.
When nations are willing to undertake serious economic reform, we should help them to do it.
Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.
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.
I don't think of investing in Cuba after all the hardships of the people there as a profit-making thing for us. I have thought of it as revitalizing the island.
Countries should think of Haiti not as a place where to do charity but a place where to invest and do business. And doing business in Haiti means poverty reduction.
International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti.
Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.
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.
The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.
In Syria, a progressive foreign policy would have shown military restraint while pumping up our ability to gain political leverage over Syria's benefactors and providing humanitarian funding to make sure that anybody that wanted to leave Syria could.
I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
Trade justice for the developing world and for this generation is a truly significant way for the developed countries to show commitment to bringing about an end to global poverty.
In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.
They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.
The World Bank is just a sponge for every do-good idea of relieving poverty.
