Bill Gates' shocking personal attacks on Dr. Dambisa Moyo and Dead Aid 

Gates needs to learn the difference between economic aid to governments and humanitarian aid.

Aid makes a government not be accountable to its people....

Wrong answer Mr. Gates. Dambisa Moyo is not talking about the humanitarian aid that helps children to go to school or provide them with vaccines (which in the long wrong does not provide development). Moya is talking about the official development assistance programs (aid) that are intended to help develop Africa, but instead these programs are creating poverty and promoting corruption, because of their extremely high interest rates. As a result of the poor check and balances that foreign investors and international organizations (the IMF and the World Bank) have when it comes to provide loans to corrupt governments in Africa. A little food for thought, Mr. Gates how is it that all this aid had help Africa if during the 1970s the amount of Africans living under a 1 dollar a day was 10% and now is over 70%? I know Mr. Gates is not going to read this or care about, but at least people are aware that what he said is not what Moyo is arguing in her book.

Its very unfortunate when people of Bill Gates stature fail to use simple argumentation in supporting their beliefs and resort to emotional appeal to the audience. Dr Dambisa Moyo by no means advocated for the termination of humanitarian aid in her book. She is concerned mostly with development aid.

Dude!!! I'm an African entrepreneur and planning to study social entrepreneurship for my PhD...your aid is killing our economies!!! It's hard to have a business in healthcare because you are competing with "donations". I could have employed many people but that's not possible because I will run down all my capital competing with free stuff!!

Wow! I am impressed. Thank you Dambisa, you are spot on. As an African, I can really relate to what you have so eloquently articulated in your book. The experience of most Africans with their governments is that living in a room with a monster that is being fed from a source you do not know. The monster should be starved! I am from Zimbabwe, and I am Moyo too.

Bill Gates is selectively choosing data to support his theory, Dambisa Moyo talks about how aid is not sustainable. she doesn't say it hasn't had some positives but in general it is crippling

Bill is a creative entrepreneur not a well educated economist ,he don't know shit about what AID is really doing in Africa and he's probably lying about reading that book or he didn't understand it at all. I think that if he also knew who Dr. Dambisa Moyo was, he would of never said that foolishness.

What Third world countries need is Sustainable Economic development and fair trade not AID.

Lets have Bill Gates (a dropout) tell us about the economics of Africa. He is way out of his level to be talking about this subject and attacking Moyo, a economist herself.

What I think Bill is not understanding is that the success or prosperity of Africa shouldn't be reliant on the 'generosity' of rich outsiders. It's definitely a fish vs fishing situation. It's also a typical western approach to problem solving. These are things that can't be fixed by simply throwing money at them.

If you are doing business in a community, and you give them 10% of your benefit back to that community, do you call this Aid. Do you lose anything? Obviously no. What happen if a person come and say to that community, "You can actually make that product by your own, you don't need to have that business man". That is what Dambisa Moyo is trying to say for years. Trying to discredit her idea is just a way to support capitalism, and keep Africa in poverty until milking the cow is finished. What an amazing you are, Bill Gate. Unless you are an agent, I am sure every African would support the idea of Dambisa.

wow. Bill Gates. just, wow! He clearly didn't read the book- hence the shallow rebuttal. Seemingly, his pride wouldn't let him admit that hence the pejorative: "books like that are promoting evil" - it's not a moral debate Sir, it's an economic one. "having children not die does not create dependency"- I take Dambisa's stance here- why SHOULD the mortality of those children be in the hands of those outside of their own government? I ask not why it is that way- but why it should be that way? And my answer is- it doesn't have to be. And this is why we need a new movement.

If Gates read the book he didn’t read it very well. Reading comprehension apparently is not his strong suit.

Obviously Bill Gates hasn't read the Dambisa Moyo book, "Dead Aid". Moyo says in her book that the book is not about Humanitarian Aid (like the one Bill Gates is involved in, e.g. immunization etc) She is talking about government to government aid, you know, the crippling aid popularized by western governments. Come on Bill, you can do better than that!!!!

Just lost all the respect I had for him. He clearly did not read the book nor objectively think about the points in Moyo's arguement.

Lets remember that Gates is not a hands on worker in places like Africa and has never been seen in places that have some of the worst living conditions on the planet. His money does not give him a place of practical expertise into all of the reasons why Africa is not better off as Dr. Moyo has documented indisputably. And by the way Dr. Moyo has a PHD from Oxford university what does Gates have other than money and a fat head? Not only does she have the academic credentials that Gates does not possess but she is a native African who can testify to the truth she documents in a way that Gates cannot! The arrogance of money is Gates argument not truth and reality! Let him work in the African peace Corps for a year and that might shake him from his ivory tower audacity. We are thankful for his fiscal charity which is quite large but he does not wear the dirt and dust of the immense deprivations of the people of this continent! We give too much attention and pay too much deference to people with money like Gates who become the mouth pieces for a world which they are not really part of or experience.

When he started off with, "Well, it depends on your value system..." I knew what we were in for: skating around the real issue that he could, in fact, be wrong and instead reducing it to a matter of perception. Thank you so much Dr. Moyo for all your hard work and continue to spread the truth.

The book is interesting and made me think a lot and I agree with many of the points. His criticism is built on selective foundation, but Dr. Moyo's book is also selective. He ignores the non-emergency aid which is so easy to pocket by corrupt governments and she ignores the fact that Tunisia, Libya and Algeria weren't aid recipients at the time of publishing, yet corruption was rampant anyway. The fact Dr Moyo always points out China as a successful dictatorship ignores the fact that it is a one party dictatorship, not a big man style dictatorship commonly found in Africa, so while they have some rotation in the top jobs, African dictatorships don't.

Did you see how Bill Gates was looking like damn how i'm gon answer this

Mr. Gates’ claim that I “didn’t know much about aid and what it was doing” is also unfortunate. I have dedicated many years to economic study up to the PhD 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. To this, I add my experience working as a consultant at the World Bank, and being born and raised in Zambia, one of the poorest aid-recipients in the world. This first-hand knowledge and experience has highlighted for me the legacy of failures of aid, and provided me with a unique understanding of not only the failures of the aid system but also of the tools for what could bring African economic success.

books like that, they're promoting evil... lol such a WOW ! :D

I think Dambisa's book is more relevant to Government to government aid or political aid but not humanitarian indeed.

Its easy to say Africa doesn't need aid when you have money.

I find it absurd and utter ignorance that a billionaire and has been musicians have any authority on the Socio-Economic reality of most African countries. Bill Gate is more concerned with his legacy than the economic collapse of most African countries and its crippling impact on its population, children in particular. Most International Aid is no better than employment opportunities for those of us from the West going into Africa or Latin America, etc.

Bill Gates knows exactly what he is doing ..

This is why economists should also study philosophy. Bill Gates is justified in describing the book as "evil" in a philosophical sense.

Leave Bill alone! He is just a retired geek trying to help poor africans but he has no clue what is being talked about here. Humanitarian aid is ok. Developement aid is a political tool of control, used to maintain poverty and corrupt leaders in Africa.

I am student of development studies, an African, a Critic of Aid, Based in Norway. Firstly, i wish not to spend time on Mr. Bill Gate, the gentleman did not read Moyo`s book. He failed to overstand but understood what Moyo was advocating for. I have not read the entire book but from the pieces i have read, Moyo Is not talking from experience. She has worked with these people and in her work she has used the simplest language in forwarding her point. There is nothing wrong in advocating for independency of a people. Bill Gate understood Sister Moyo, but he did not get the point. Moyo overstands the relationship between Africa and the slave imperialistic masters. Her fight is for her people, i dont expect a man who has accumulated his wealth by the help of a corrupted tool of capitalism to go against that which built him. Sister Moyo, has taken the bullet for her own people she is not EVIL if any one here is evil then it should be the person closing a blind eye on the minerals used in making smart phone and other devices from the DR congo, People like Bill Gates are have contributed to the genecide which has claimed more than 6 million congolese, to me that is evil and not a person call for freedom.

Mr. Bill Gates you got that so wrong because if your only reasoning to this is about the mortality rate of children that has been cut back as a result of aid is missing the bigger point of what the book is about. Dambisa outlined some really good points in the book why foreign aid has been a dissaster as far as the African continent is concerned but trying to demonise her is really missing the point big time!

He is American why he is not giving aid to homeless and poor American?? Because that’s not his business he is loyal to America and don’t want Americans become addict of aid

The concept of aid, can best be understood by looking at the relationship between a man and his dog (assuming in the US). The dog is fully dependent on the master (the man). The man decides when the dog eats, poops, sleeps, plays, reproduce, etc. If the dogs does not do these things according to the master, punishment is dispensed. For African countries (being the dog, supposedly for now(!)), punishment comes in the form of sanctions, aid withdrawal, labeling the leader as a terrorist, etc. Aid, chokes and imprisons the supposed victim. Africa, is probably the happiest place on the planet, but aid comes to take that away and imprisons these happy people. If you want to help, ask this question: "How can I help?". Do not impose your ways upon Africa. Trade, not aid.

Almost everyone in the comments think that the world has dealt them a wrong hand. That they are smarter, that they would have, could have succeeded if the world gave them the correct opportunities. Some people are out in the world making changes (for better or worse) using seemingly, the right intentions. Those that find the time to complain about said actions should propose solutions and engage the world to find their own set of opportunities. If those that claim there is a problem in someone else's system and it is verified that there truly is, then that is opportunity. Instead of being some kind of economist, who stares at the flow of money to gain some themselves, take on a skilled profession that reforms the aid given to the needed people: - Become a volunteer who works with the sick in hospitals. Who asks for aid based on need in order to reconstruct a sustainable hospital on a reasonable combination of aid and profit. - Become a civil engineer who mentors others in Africa the principles of modern construction methods using economic materials. - Become a teacher that teaches a curriculum that will allow some of the kids to take a step out of their adversity. - Help set-up large scale trading routes to allow for manufacturing to be more of a profitable option, even if only in commodity trades. Money is a powerful tool. It should not be taken away, but instead redirected into projects that lead to building sustainable systems where-in they can be eventually done without. We need honest, hard-working, intelligent people to redefine ways businesses operate in a non-exploitative environment where initial profits are going to be extremely low with the exception of moderate aid. [I hope all opposing comments aren't being censored. I am not unreasonably criticising the set of chosen comments here.]

Izaccy- this is not about blood and soil! It's about TYPES of Aid and their economic utility! Like Dambisa, I'm all for foreign input and investment in Africa as long as it's fashioned in such a way as to promote sustainable economic GROWTH (as opposed to charitable aid + more aid + more aid ad infinitum!) Again, crisis aid is different- because it's unforeseen! We welcome that too! However, I'm at odds with the notion of giving Africans an economic 'hand out' in the name of "aid"- especially when we can see it delivers no results?

I like to read travel books esp. about Africa and every single (white) traveler who spend months or years in Africa and fell in love with the country - they all mentioned - the hell with NGO ! They are killing progress in the country !

It is so obvious Gates didn't read the Book.

this man is rich, thays all. Stop asking him question that he will answer stupidly. Is he an economics guru? Maybe ask him about technology and stop wasting our time listening to less constructive comments. Stop regarding financial riches as universal intelligence

Omg is he clueless! Trying to discredit her instead. Shame. Just leave Africa alone.

I think both Gates and Moyo are all right in their own lines, the only difference is the the time span of the solution being offered or suggested. In as much as we can not cut aid overnight and watch small children die due to poverty and diseases in Africa, we need to also think on the long term solutions to African problems....just giving the people power to create wealth in the long run and questions of poverty and poor health care will be phased out slowly as people's living standards improve...One person is watering the leaves while the other one is watering the roots, but all have good motive of preventing the tree from withering and dwindling... I believe in long term solutions to problems but here a good balance is needed.

The aid model has nevervworked, if it could work it would have worked a long time ago

Bill Gates doesn't know what he's talking about.

The way they pretend to help Africa is just shocking

I guess Bill Gates calling you evil is better than not calling you at all. But, I think it's great you posted criticism. Not many would.

This book is totally absurd. The academic debate is not about more or less aid, but on good or bad aid.

He ignores her point - Dambisa says helping children live and go to school is the job of a govt. not a donor; can an African govt. do this in the long term with the current aid model that is not primarily focused on trade?, who is an aid dependent govt. accountable to - its people or the aiding govt.?

Much as I do not agree with Bill Gate's critique of Moyo's ideology, I think the caption of this video is misleading. Bill did not make personal attacks on Dr Moyo. He stated clearly arguments in favour of foreign aid and in contrast to Moyo's views.

Difference in approach and opinion. Don't have to call her evil. But I guess he took it hard in the way the girl summarizes the book at that moment. He's not a politician, so he may have overreacted a little too much.

The girl's question is more clear than Bill Gates' answer.

If you agree with dambisa moyo hit like

Aid money goes directly to didactors.

Ms Dambisa Moyo is right about aid in Africa

When you attack someone's god, you get nastiness in return. Moyo attacked Gate's god -- himself.

Bill is as human as all of you... with some billions He pointed on facts. Aids are good, otherwise, charities wouldn't exist. The issue: it doesn't provide a lasting solution "fishing for a man today will feed him today, but teach him to fish, you feed him forever".

Dambisa 1 - Bill 0 ?? Usually when I hear five seconds' worth of Bill's opinions they seem very good. Yeah he's pretty much just spouting sophistry... evidently unaware that Europe, North America, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore etc didn't build their wealth through aid. I'm not against aid. I haven't read the book. But I am au fait with economics and politics. And it's pretty clear to me that by and large foreign aid goes to those in power, or even when it does not it skews the incentives facing people in their daily lives.

Aid has been life saving and alleviated poverty globally. I can attest as an African Aid worker for about two decades. Wonderful Aid organizations exist pioneered and supported by kind people all over the world. Like any other field continuous evaluation and taking corrective measures has been ongoing and should continue. I haven't read the book by the Doctor but critics and activists should be encouraged. It is like an audit angle. Life is for learning and learning for life. We are not living in a perfect world.

he is clearly clueless.."few critics of aid" try the whole grassroots, anybody with a soul and a scruple who's ever worked for an ngo and understands how it is inherently flawed..

I might just be an idiot as far as politics, the geopolitical landscape and the economic history of the world...but dead aid was a very tedious book. it cirtainly taught me a lot about the history of aid in africa, but I am of the opinion that Dr Moyo used too many words to describe an idea that can be completely described in far less words.

She categories two types of aid, humanitarian/emergency aid and development aid or low interest rate loans. She is the proponet of idea that development aid cripples the economy by giving some examples. She does not curse humanitarian aid. Neverthless she believes aid is not the solution to economic growth.

Aid in Africa has sure had negative consequences and has kept crippling African economies, just as it does even on personal levels. I agree with Dambisa

Your inability to respond with an argument suggests that label fits you better. Let me ask: Have you read Dead Aid?

It's a dilema. On one hand you cannot compete. On the hand, Children are being saved from imminent death left and right. The vaccination programs, food programs and such. So it's, shall we withdraw AID and let the entrepreneurs and business men compete for market share, at the expense of people ending up dead because they cannot afford to by these things they so dearly rely one?? It's sucks. Personally, I understand Bill's position as well as Dambisa-a fellow Zambian. I think the solution is in finding a middle ground that effectively weans Africa off AID whilst being able to promote it to become self sufficient. *Contraception- less kids, less mouths to feed, less burden on finite resources, less people to rely on AID *Work to remove this pariah that is Catholicism that has championed HIV/AIDS and other STIs on our people so we can promote a healthy labour force, so the government can divert resources to other projects instead of putting more in health care to treat people-again this promotes less reliance on AID and more priority of uplifting the nations and their people, Zambia and her people. *Education-self explanatory. A more educate population unlocks more labour, more skills, more innovation and economic participation. Continue to weaken the cycle of poverty and break it for many Obviously there are many other things but these are areas I personally think Africa should work on to see profound changes

Mr. Gates, if Hitler was dying during WW2, would you have saved him? Obviousely yes, since according to you, not saving a life is EVIL. Let's forget any other consideration - life is good so let's save lives and the hell with any other consideration. This is similar argumentation to those who oppose contraception - since life is good, let us create as many humans as possible.

The issue with aid is it effectively acts as a natural resource which in turn results in Dutch Disease. This is ignoring the corruption in a lot of these countries where the aid received by these government officials is either poorly handled or even for them to abscond with some of this "free" money. I think both the people who support aid and who deny it will agree that the end goal is for aid to no longer be needed and for the economies in these poorer countries to flourish. That being said, I do think humanitarian aid will always be a necessity, as there will always be a natural disaster, or repercussions from conflict, etc. Also just to note that Bill Gates work in this realm is sizeable and he has done a lot of work outside of aid to help poorer countries. I suggest reading more about some of the programs he funds and the issues he tackles with his foundation.

Hands off Africa!!!

Corruption has killed Africa and Most importantly The Worship of the white man has also killed but you want to know who will make Africa Rot the Chinese. I;m sorry I said it.

Being a student of Development Studies, I have done extensive research on aid criticism. What I have found is that its arguments are very weak. Aid critics like Moyo and William Easterly are in their books silent about the fact that more money leaves developing countries than they receive, mainly due to capital flight, unfair trade and debts. Yet, Moyo and Easterly are claiming that the West has given "trillions" of dollars of aid. It's simply not true. Aid is a minor amount of capital compared to other global capital flows. Furthermore, Moyo has a neo-classical focus on economic growth as the measure of progress, and thus she is concerned with not seeing enough evidence for aid producing economic growth. But all aid is not aimed at producing growth, some because it has bad motives (like the US giving primarily to its military allies) or simply because stopping e.g. female genital mutilation will not produce growth but is great anyways. The biggest problem with Dead Aid is its policy proposal: ending all aid within five years. It is ridiculous. I am the first to acknowledge that many forms of aid has problems, but aid per se cannot be bad for poverty reduction - as Gates points out above there is a lot of empirical evidence that aid produces results, and Moyo is not very serious when she denies this. Trade cannot helpt the poorest of the poor because they haven't anything to trade with - equal welfare societies like Sweden have a lot of internal aid to help the marginalised opposed to unequal societies like the US, and on a global scale that means aid. Moyo's market fundamentalism is indeed damaging for the poor.

First of all bill gates Dambisa Moyo is an African economist and unlike you who dropped out of Harvard she actually finished Harvard. The problem with your thinking is even though aid helps to a certain degree it's not sustainable in the long run, worse is you bringing the drugs which are already manufactured in the US to Africa so it doesn't create jobs in Africa but the US. What does it matter if even I get healthy and go to school if when I graduate I won't be able to work to build my countrys economy because aid has killed it. Take a look at the second hand clothing countries like America donates to good will to send to Africa to "help" cloth Africans, it kills our textile industry sending thousands of businesses into bankruptcy while creating huge levels of unemployment. So gates yes aid is killing Africa and as a business man I thought you should have known better. No country has ever built it's economy by waiting to be given hand-outs so why should Africa. #africabeyondaid

Wow, his so up in grooving on his philanthropic patriarchal self that he has to dismiss and vilify an African women's words and experience. Thank you, Dambisa for bringing this topic to the forefront.

Mr gates must come out clean on what his value system is, Dambiso looked at a whole lot of aid fundamentals l not just health care hence her reasoning is correct. For a country to proper there must government accountability, saving and investment aid does not give room for that environment hence instead the aid is evil.

"It is not a small thing for an economist to be off by a factor of nine. And it is not a minor thing for Moyo to dismiss and distort the achievements of a foreign aid program that helped save her homeland of Zambia from social and economic ruin. In 2004, 7 percent of Zambians who needed AIDS drugs were receiving them. By September, that figure should exceed 66 percent. AIDS drugs, admittedly, do not guarantee economic growth. But I suspect that a generation of hopeless mass death would have undermined Zambia's economic prospects." www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/02/AR2009040203285.html

Africa does not need foreign food or medicine or any foreign help to have a strong economy to offer a great life for all of its people! Africa needs to develop and distribute its own natural remedies, natural resources, medical system, etc., with non colonial affiliated independent governments, w/checks and balances...not systemically use foreign goods, medicine, medics, military, anything...until the new intra African trade system dictates use. Africa will be as powerful as and able to protect itself...as all other Nations of the world are. The world needs Africa and Africans to develop to the highest... African economies, lifestyles, resources can be shared ...with African controls...like any other Nation! Keep praying. Investigations of causes of suspicious magnanimous death rates of native Black Africans demands/commands that Africa be self reliant. Let Natural medicine(s) be Africa’s frontline treatment! Even many Americans and peoples across the world use remedies from Natural-paths, Homeopaths, holistic professionals...many conventional doctors across the world are embracing new holistic practices! Am praying for the “WholeWorld.”

Bill made a zillion dollars in the tech field. Now he is giving away a zillion dollars. I am guessing it really hurt his feeling for someone to say that your big zillions are doing more harm than good. Bill talks about a person's value system. Evidently his value system is surrounded around big $$$. For example, "I have made a lot of money, and that is good". So giving away a lot of money is also good. I am not sure it works that way.

Most of the education and scholarships given by B&M Gates foundation and other NGOs only attract the brightest of Africa to the west to study and work. The west improves. Africa's economy will never be able to catch up of it continues to rely on handouts and remains divided. If America is so concerned. They should be building schools infrastructure and creating jobs. Not having useless dialogues. There are too many vested interests in America foreign aid to Africa. Foreign aid from Africa fixes some symptoms but ensures the main problems remain so that Africa will only start catching up much later and does not threaten US security. If Africans know the truth behind all the hidden interests in the aid, they will think twice.

I have a sense that most people are not getting the point. I personally think that our greatest challenge is that most of us approach things from a micro world view rather than looking at the world i.e. things and long-term decisions from a macro (the big picture) point of view. Aid is not the long term solution, it’s never been designed to be a long-term solution. In the long-term aid does more harm than good and the West know this and they including their represent ivies like Bill Gates are not naive about this matter, on the contrary they quite clear about the cause and effect of aid. They are very calculative and I can bet you anything that they have planned the fate of Africa for many years to come and Aid/Charity is a part of it. A long-term dependence of aid destroys creativity, enterprise and makes people depended, be it in social benefits being used as a long-term solution for an individual or a whole people group relying on aid in the long-term. For me it’s clear that they do not want to encourage enterprise the development of commerce in a continent whose resource they highly depend upon. God forbid it that they should trade with Africa on fair and equitable terms, it will actually mean Africa can prosper and not become depended on the International Bankers and on Aid. Africa might actually begin to dictate its own terms of trade. Therein is the dilemma Africa faces, dependence on a party that largely has a conflict of interest when it comes to its prosperity. From an economics stand point the solutions presented in the book make sense and clearly lays out some intelligent answers. These by the way do not require a whole lot of intelligence to agree with and for someone like Bill Gates a leading entrepreneur - it’s ludicrous for him not to even discus the other side of the book. But then again it’s not surprising to see. How can they agree with anything that actually makes sense when it relates to Africa? It’s clearly not in their best interest to do so. What bothers me at times is how can people not see the obvious conflict of interest the West has regarding the development of Africa? There are many sensible approaches to Africa's long-term solutions: 1. Foster enterprise by investing in the appropriate infrastructure, providing some human resources qualified to train the locals across different disciplines in various industries to achieve production and stimulate the local economies. 2. Whilst they are at it they could assist in securing foreign trade partners on equitable trade terms in order for Africa to bring in much needed foreign currency? It's simple, the West does not want to empower a continent it is highly depended on. Sharing the true wealth with Africa is outside of their plan. But giving tokens and be seen as the savour achieves their goals. 1. Make Africa dependant whilst exploiting its people and its resources. 2. Appease peoples concise into complacency. 3. As long as people feel they are doing all they can, they have no reason to do different. And this will perpetuate something that can be changed within a very short period of time - THIS IS EVIL! NOT Dr. Dambisa Moyo or the valid points she raises.

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Bill Gates is wrong! The issue is not whether or not the money he sends can be or is put to good use. Any help that is given to sick dying children in Africa or else where can make a big difference for those children, that goes without saying. The issue here is the impact it has on Africa. Foreign AID in many African countries constitutes up-to 30% of their GDPs. When you have such a large amount of your GDP guaranteed you develop a dependency on its source and also you do not need to think as hard to find solutions for yourself. Presuming that what he is doing is for purely altruistic purposes. I still think it is better to teach a man to fish than to keep giving him a fish every day! And why would you give your neighbor a fish everyday? There is something fundamentally wrong with that equation! If your neighbor is able bodied, the n you offer him a job or teach him to fish. If he is absolutely unable to work or to fish, he is either sick, an invalid, or there is something wrong with the system rendering him unable to fish or work. Once you have established what the problem is, you deal with the problem, not the symptom. Taking a fish to another man daily forever, is highly suspect! A man should be able to work to produce what he requires to live, and look after his own children, or else he should have fewer or no children. Not have children in the hope that the neighbors will feed and take care of them. The system of foreign AID in my opinion maybe tolerable in the short run or in cases of disaster, but not perpetually and as a means to an end. This money is intended for use as bribes to African leaders to ensure that greater benefits continue to flow out of Africa in form of resources than what is sent as Aid. That is logical. 'Humans are selfish by nature.' African leaders must be held accountable with the funds from taxes collected and their proper allocation to ends that benefit their citizens, and not for purposes of keeping themselves in power. If there is something Africa needs from Bill Gates, it is training, in the form of schools, education, skills, etc... Teach people how to do for themselves, how to be independent, not how to open and close their mouths on command, and then wait for the next time that you pass by to repeat the ritual like a bunch of helpless nestlings.

The question is why don’t children have food, why do they need vaccinations? Does Africa not have enough nutrients in the soil to grow their own food?

The dispute is in the details. A fire in a house requires firedistincquisher right away and fire alarm prevention education later. ( Bill Gates ‘s view) The Chinese saying that give a man a fish and it lasts a day but teach him to fish he would have fish for life (Dr. Moyo’s argument) Aid is not bad but requires thought and planning.

If you feed pigeons, on a streetcorner, every day, then the only good you accomplish is to make more pigeons, in fact youi will soon get very, very many more pigeons, so many that the police wil be forced to make you stop. Dambisa's point is that Africadoes not need food and medicine, it needs jobs, needs purpose, needs respect. What they need are roads, schools, factories, infrastructure. But Bill Gates never cared about anybody but his own megalomaniacle power and control, that's how he got to be so rich in the first place!

Very much disappointed to learn how ignorant this wealthy person is. How does one get so successful, but fail to know the difference between economic aid and humanitarian aid🤷‍♀️? I don’t think he read the book because it teaches uninformed people the different kinds of aid that are out there and Moyo deliberates on how each aid has affected nations; positively or negatively.

i personally strongly disagree with Bill Gates here, im not african and just seeing this Continent from such distance, i do agree with what Miss Dambisa said in her book, i watched her explanation and surely it is very true why so many aid never help Africa to be such independent actor but as a passive reciever like forever.

May be he can (if he isn't) put most of his millions in small businesses in different parts of Africa which will help with the economy, employment & improvement in standard of living.

I don't kno Dambisa Moyo, but I like what she is saying and plan to get both of her book...Right on Paul Kagame! For being a true leader for change....#lacingupmyboots

It was the incompetent and corrupted leaderships in Africa that was the problem of aid, not the aid itself. Building past the point of needing aid and becoming truly self sufficient and independent should have been the end game, instead the leaders in Africa squandered precious natural resources and aid for their personal benefit and gain, at the expense of their people.

Chinese infrastructure and investment in Africa is creating jobs and build local business in the long run while decades of western aid did not raise the living standards of any Africans. Western aid did save a lot of children but Chinese Investment will help Africans to build their own hospitals and schools for African children

Moto argument goes back to the old proverb of teaching one to fish. Moyo is point is to allow Africa to trade their good on a global market place and allow sustainability of their economies by their own effort. Which is the long term enables education and allows the economy to further evolve.

Africa does need to work on its internal issues (corruption, greed, inequity, tribalism). However these are issues that plague almost every continent in the world. And also, Africa is also gravely exploited by multinational oil companies of the west, many from the US in particular. But in terms of leadership, you are right. African leaders need to follow the Thomas Sankara model.

It's not that simple. There are many American recipients of financial aid that leave school at age 22 and end up being in debt well into their 40s and 50s. Also, you can't just compare an entire continent (Africa) to a country(United States) in another continent. The US itself is in great debt, is dealing with a struggling economy, high unemployment, rising tuition costs (which may decrease student enrollment), an iniquitous judicial system, racism, immigration reform, poverty, etc.

Removing Dictators isn't a guarantee that a better one will fill the vacancy. Egypt is an example of this. Syria will be next. You sound like you have good intentions, but you're not giving us examples of where the ideas you (& Gates) support have ever worked out before on a large enough scale to get countries out of dire poverty. China eradicated hunger in 2 years with free market reforms. But western white people (and you) don't see it appropriate to let Africans work hard for a living.

Bill gates shld have read the whole book. If I'm not mistaken page 7 of dead aid , Moyo pointed three types of aid and here bills gates only chooses to talk abt Charity aid 🙄

Haveing children not die.. if I check clearly in 2022 they are working hard to pass into law abortion bill.

Sounds good in theory, but in practice Africa is worse off than it was 40 years ago. When comparing numbers of people living in dire poverty & dependence, dominance of warlords, rape - it's gotten much worse. China eradicated starvation in less than 2 years when it introduced free markets in the late 70s. Africa got hooked on aid back then, and look at it now.

Some in the west exploit Africans, yes. But you have to distinguish between productive investments and exploitation. If you keep demonising foreign investment, you will keep Africa backwards for a very long time. Most countries in Africa do not respect property rights, and this prevents even basic agricultural farms from starting up, as they fear confiscation.

It's fascinating to see someone whose entire business success was based on the theft of intellectual property go on to moralize/virtue signal on the issue of whether African aid as it's structured today is helping long term or not.

What African countries need is a marshall plan with a timeline. Simple. We need investment. These guys have killed many of our industries.

Interesting guy this Bill Gates. Let's give him applause for sharing his wealth to projects intentended to help the world in multiple ways.

This clip is explosive to come from the world's richest man. He is skewing the message without quoting any page in her book. The stats are showing a decline in child-mortality rates but is that sustainable by Africans themselves in the long? (He is attacking the messenger instead of the message coz it exposes his selfish intents disguised as assistance). Helping shd not breed dependency. People need to develop indigenously sustainable means. Indeed Dambisa is a David taking on Goliath

No he should just have read the book.. you dont need advisors to tell you not to comment on a book you havent read. I think a good use of his money would be to sponsor a university or universities and help them produce technologists.. thats his area. Then he could use African resources the same way he currently uses Indian (s/ware developers). Thats a more sustainable effort in my case. I believe Gates means well but believes Africans are crippled..

Eugenics and family planning are two different things. Eugenics is not against population increase as such, eugenics is mainly concerned with the quality of those reproducing. As for family planning in Africa, current birth rates are the best indicator that Africa is still far away from achieving prosperity. No developed country or industrializing country has had such birth rates. Of course such birth rates also lead to malnutrition and inadequate education, but that's a choice and trade-off.