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Aid is not development: transfers can relieve poverty, but the work that actually lifts a country out of it is not work donors do.

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  1. Oliver Kim For people like me working on global development in the West, the bitter pill to swallow is that aid is not development. global-developments.org

    Development economist and economic historian who writes…

    Their wordsFor people like me working on global development in the West, the bitter pill to swallow is that aid is not development.

    Where this was said

    ↗A World Without Aid?global-developments.org

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  2. Chris Blattman Third, a cash transfer to help the poor build business is like aspirin to a flesh wound. It helps, but not for long. chrisblattman.com

    Economist and political scientist at the University of Chicago

    Their wordsThird, a cash transfer to help the poor build business is like aspirin to a flesh wound. It helps, but not for long.

    Where this was said

    ↗Why cash transfers to the poor are not the next big thingchrisblattman.com

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