I don’t have time to type out some of his memorable statements, but I want to strongly recommend students of economics–which should include people who genuinely want to help the poor, but want to do so from a position of intellectual clarity, and not childish sentimentalism–read Peter Bauer’s excellent “Equality, the Third World and Economic Delusion”.
I think the evidence speaks clearly that so-called “aid” policies have had the net effect over the last 60 years or so of promoting totalitarianism, slowing or halting economic development, and contributing to even wider poverty throughout the world.
Put another way, leftist politics have damaged the lives of nearly every person on the planet Earth, in clearly identifiable and quantifiable ways.