Dean Acheson Quotes

Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

Humanitarian help will never solve any problems. It is necessary to help us create some kind of economic infrastructure.

When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.

I think a lot of the problem with foreign aid and things like that is you go in, give a bunch of stuff, and then it runs out. It's about helping them learn how to continue to be sustainable and live.

Aid should shift to investment. This will help countries stand on their own.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.

International aid as a means of development is a major failure, and not just in Haiti.

We want to help countries ultimately to become self-sustaining. That has to come through economic development.

U.K. aid is responding to our changing world and tackling the great challenges of our time. It is transforming lives in the poorest countries and making the world healthier, safer and more prosperous for everyone.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense...but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, it can and must be effective.

We believe that by removing a crippling debt burden we'll help millions of Africans improve their lives and grow their economies.

The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder . . . Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.

The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.

Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward.

The Haiti that has been waiting for help and not moving no longer exists. Enough handouts; we need hands up. Enough aid; we need trade.

Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.

The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.

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.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.

It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.

Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.

Educated and productive young people are needed to help lift their countries out of poverty and create a wealthier, more secure world.