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Liveblogging “The Leadership Summit” – 9 – Andrew Rugasira “Trade Not Aid”

Aug 7th, 2009
by Michael Krahn.

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Day 2, Session 1b – Thinking Forward: Aid vs. Trade (Andrew Rugasira)

http://www.goodafrican.com/

No country in the world is developed through handouts. Handouts will not develop Africa

We use trade to develop because it is the only proven way to societal change

Trade their way out of poverty, allow people to help themselves.

Offer equal opportunities, not pity.

Aid: how has it been sustained in the face of all the evidence that it has been ineffective?
Aid undermines accountability

See Africa as consumers, innovators, a continent with potential

Africans have to stop believing that help comes from outside.
Kindness is not demonstrated through handouts. It is demonstrated by helping people to help themselves. Believe that help comes by trade, not aid.
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Posted in: #tls09, The Leadership Summit 2009.

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  • Dan Rempel

    I don’t doubt that aid has not been as effective as hoped and in many cases counter effective, but to imply that drastic drop in GDP is primarily due to the aid is sorely ignoring the HIV/AIDS crisis. What do you think happens when in just a few of years you lose half of your productive adults? What happens when a generation of kids has few adults from whom to learn to produce?