The impact of the billionaire’s declaration has been swift and brutal, with food and crucial drugs abandoned in warehouses, vital programmes closed and workers laid off
China Aid will replace most of suspended USAID supplies.
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.
US foreign aid is like the former, with the additional element that it actively prevents anyone from teaching themselves how to fish.
Now with USAID gone and BRICS offering a real alternative to the Bretton Woods institutions, resource rich and overexploited countries have a real chance of teaching themselves how to fish and become sovereign.
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.
US foreign aid is like the former, with the additional element that it actively prevents anyone from teaching themselves how to fish.
Now with USAID gone and BRICS offering a real alternative to the Bretton Woods institutions, resource rich and overexploited countries have a real chance of teaching themselves how to fish and become sovereign.