Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates wrote an excellent op-ed piece in today's Washington Post, ahead of his presentation to the heads of the G-20 nations on Thursday. One key blurb from his piece:
"Aid is targeted to fill specific gaps in development. The most important of these gaps is innovation. When the private sector doesn’t have incentive, and poor governments don’t have the money, smart aid pays for breakthrough solutions. The green revolution that fed a billion people in the 1950s and ’60s never would have happened without advanced agricultural science funded by U.S. aid."
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