The White Man's Burden Quotes

“When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.”
― William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

“Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.”
― William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

“Almost three billion people live on less than two dollars a day, adjusted for purchasing power.5 Eight hundred and forty million people in the world don’t have enough to eat.6 Ten million children die every year from easily preventable diseases.7 AIDS is killing three million people a year and is still spreading.8 One billion people in the world lack access to clean water; two billion lack access to sanitation.9 One billion adults are illiterate.10 About a quarter of the children in the poor countries do not finish primary school.11”
― William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

“There is an old Latin saying that goes, “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”—which translates freely as “Why would you trust a government official any more than you would a shoplifting serial killer?”
― William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

“Hoy en día, la falta de retroalimentación es uno de los defectos más críticos de la ayuda.”
― William Easterly, La carga del hombre blanco: El fracaso de la ayuda al desarrollo

“«Dado que no puedes hacer lo que quieres, pregúntate qué puedes hacer».”
― William Easterly, La carga del hombre blanco: El fracaso de la ayuda al desarrollo

“los organismos de ayuda no pueden acabar con la pobreza en el mundo, pero sí pueden hacer muchas cosas útiles para satisfacer las desesperadas necesidades de los pobres y darles nuevas oportunidades.”
― William Easterly, La carga del hombre blanco: El fracaso de la ayuda al desarrollo

“La intervención militar y la ocupación revelan la clásica mentalidad del planificador: aplicar una respuesta externa y simplista desde Occidente a un problema interno y complejo del resto del mundo.”
― William Easterly, La carga del hombre blanco: El fracaso de la ayuda al desarrollo

“Ello no supone negar que muchos agravios nacionalistas sean genuinos; se trata simplemente de que los líderes nacionalistas parecen provocar tales agravios a expensas del futuro desarrollo económico.”
― William Easterly, La carga del hombre blanco: El fracaso de la ayuda al desarrollo