Drew Whitley’s Reviews > Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa > Status Update
Drew Whitley
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“In most functioning and healthy economies, the middle class pays taxes in return for government accountability. Foreign aid short-circuits this link. Because the government’s financial dependence on its citizens has been reduced, it owes its people nothing.”
— Jan 06, 2025 01:10AM
“In most functioning and healthy economies, the middle class pays taxes in return for government accountability. Foreign aid short-circuits this link. Because the government’s financial dependence on its citizens has been reduced, it owes its people nothing.”
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Drew Whitley
is on page 37 of 188
“In most poor countries today, aid is in the civil service, aid is in the political institutions, aid is in the military, aid is in healthcare and education, aid is in infrastructure, aid is endemic. The more it infiltrates, the more it erodes, the greater the culture of aid-dependency.”
Lesotho hasn’t gotten a shoutout yet but this definitely feels true here.
— Jan 05, 2025 02:31AM
Lesotho hasn’t gotten a shoutout yet but this definitely feels true here.
