Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Aid

President Kagame has an op-ed in the Financial Times on the "aid culture" in Africa. (Registration required.) He argues, "The cycle of aid and poverty is durable: as long as poor nations are focused on receiving aid they will not work to improve their economies."

The Foreign Policy blog has some observations.

Then again, it's both fantastic and unsurprising to hear Kagame promising to wean his country from development aid -- through savy business ventures and smart economic policy. In fact, that's what the president has already started to do, and it's the reason that many consider Rwanda the emerging Singapore of Sub-Saharan Africa. The example is one to follow -- and not just in the developing world.

A previous post on Dambisa Moyo's Dead Aid, which is mentioned in Kagame's article, is here.