I often wonder why the West is much more interested in aid deliveries than in fair trade, for example. The fair exchange of goods would place far more money into the hands of the affected people than relief operations.
Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.
In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.
We've used aid to build capacities so we won't need aid in future.
Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.
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.
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