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India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it’s aid-neutral.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.