Quotes for more transparency for development

Humanity has reached a crisis point with respect to the interlocking issues of overpopulation, unsustainable development and human suffering. Rotarian Action Group for Population & Development (RFPD)

Development aid is ... not necessary to rescue poor societies from a vicious circle of poverty. Indeed, it is far more likely to keep them in that state. Peter Bauer, developmental economist Friedman Prize Winner

Foreign aid has done far more harm to the countries we have given it to than it has done good. Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate

"For God's Sake, Please Stop the Aid!"
The countries that have collected the most development aid are also the ones that are in the worst shape ... Foreign Aid is always presented as helping the people of a nation, but it never does. Even the IMF has had to concede this. ... Well-intentioned people need to take more responsibility for consequences! James Shikwati, Kenyan economist, Director of the Inter Region Economic Network

Sending aid to governments in poor countries over the last 60 years has not alleviated poverty. Why has it failed? William Easterly, American Economist, Professor at the New York University

Why? Because in every case, foreign aid has strengthened governments that were already too power full. Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate

The single biggest obstacle to business and the renewal of the economies ... is corruption. Bono, Rock Star & Activist

The empowering of the citizens, not authorities, can give rise to the necessary checks and balance … against corruption … If we learn from European history … economic development is of the people, by the people, for the people … connectivity is productivity Iqbal Quadir, founder of GrameenPhone, Co-Director of the MIT Empowering

We need to develop and use business models on-site because incentives matter … Chapter one is the financial help… the moral absolution … lets celebrate it, lets close it …we have to recognize that we need to go on to chapter two which is all about execution and the how to.
Jacqueline Novogratz, founder of the Acumen Fund

Most of the existing research projects are too narrowly defined; they reflect a specific interest and often a process of one-way thinking. What is needed is a systematic and more nearly inter-disciplinary approach tilted at seeking to understand the magnitude and intensity of key processes. Jack D. Ives and Bruno Messerli, authors of “the Himalayan Dilemma Reconciling Development and Conservation”

KEEP YOUR COINS WE WANT CHANGE

Global equal rights and chances are what is needed most



Transparency for development