Dambisa Moyo famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.
-- Dambisa Moyo

#Wish #Sometimes #Aids
In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the reforms required to get the economy moving
-- Dambisa Moyo

#Country #Moving #Party
Ask most people who live in a home and have a mortgage on it whether they own their own home and the answer is almost guaranteed to be a resounding 'yes'. Yet it's the wrong answer. Technically speaking, until they have paid the mortgage off, they don't own it. Herein lies the difference between reality and illusion, between ownership and control. This confusion lies not only at the individual level, but also at the heart of government thinking.
-- Dambisa Moyo

#Lying #Home #Heart
The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.
-- Dambisa Moyo

#Political #Today #Poverty
If you think about the last 50 years, Africa's proximity and historical context has absolutely been with Europe and the United States, but their approach in dealing with the economic challenges that Africa faces in particular has been one of handing out aid, not developing economies, not building a long term relationship around agriculture and so on.
-- Dambisa Moyo

#Thinking #Years #Europe
The fact that China has about seven percent arable land, means that she’s always going to be looking for places that have more arable lands to finance or to provide food stuffs.
-- Dambisa Moyo

#Mean #Land #Stuff
The fact that Brazil and Chile now has China as their largest trading partner means the Monroe Doctrine is certainly something of the past.
-- Dambisa Moyo

#Mean #Past #Doctrine

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.
Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.
Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it is no longer needed.
A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.
I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.

Dambisa Moyo famous quotes

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