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“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, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

“Africa is addicted to aid. For the past sixty years it has been fed aid. Like any addict it needs and depends on its regular fix, finding it hard, if not impossible, to contemplate existence in an aid-less world. In Africa, the West has found its perfect client to deal to.”
― Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa

“It is worth pointing out that there has been some notable success with a concept known as ‘conditional cash transfersâ€�; these are cash payments (in a sense, bonuses) made to give the poor an incentive to perform tasks that could help them escape poverty (for example, good school attendance, working a certain number of hours, improving test scores, seeing a doctor). The idea of conditional cash transfers has met with much success in developing countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru (a similar programme is now being tested in the boroughs of New York City).”
― Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa

“Western donors have an aid industry to feed, farmers”
― Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa

“What is clear is that democracy is not the prerequisite for economic growth that aid proponents maintain. On the contrary, it is economic growth that is a prerequisite for democracy; and the one thing economic growth does not need is aid. In”
― Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa

“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 (unfortunately, too often countries end up with more dictator and less benevolence).”
― Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

“A short-term efficacious intervention may have few discernible, sustainable long-term benefits.”
― Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

“The African discussion has been colonized as surely as the African continent was a century ago.”
― Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

“In 2004, the British envoy to Kenya, Sir Edward Clay, complained about rampant corruption in the country, commenting that Kenya’s corrupt ministers were ‘eating like gluttonsâ€� and vomiting on the shoes of the foreign donors.”
― Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa

“Bokassa’s coronation as Emperor of the Central African Empire in 1977 alone cost US$22 million.7 Across many African states, corruption was running at epidemic levels.”
― Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa

“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 have increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.”
― Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa