1) From the Harvard Business Review, "Systemic problems are not solved by a few smart people … thinking really, really deep thoughts about really, really important things. They are solved when a vibrant and competitive marketplace first tests and then confirms or disproves an array of possibilities and approaches."
Coming from the idea that Africa's own entrepreneurs hold one of the keys to their own development, a lot more than our top-down planning. (See Easterly book White Man's Burden).
2) The "Seven Sins" of development, from the book Reinventing Foreign Aid, by Nancy Birdsall, President of the Center for Global Development:
- impatience
- envy
- ignorance
- pride
- sloth
- greed
- foolishness
Birdsall claims that each of these sins have a big effect on why development aid is not working...interesting to think about to say the least.
so, basically as long as we are humans, development aid won't work.... let's move on to the next idea!
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