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Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

- Angus Deaton
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Europeans tend to feel more positively about their governments than do Americans, for whom the failures and unpopularity of their federal, state, and local politicians are a commonplace. Yet Americans' various governments collect taxes and, in return, provide services without which they could not easily live their lives.

I think putting numbers together into a coherent framework always seemed to me to be what really matters.

A lot of people in America and Europe feel that their governments are not representing them very much.

Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.

Without properly functioning civil courts, there is no guarantee that innovative entrepreneurs can claim the rewards of their ideas.

If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums of money to some of the richest people who have ever existed on Earth.

Aid can only reach the victims of war by paying off the warlords and, sometimes, extending the war.

High quality, open, transparent, and uncensored data are needed to support democracy.

I think there are a lot of policies that have been unfriendly to workers' wages.

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Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.

Foreign aid, especially when there is a lot of it, affects how institutions function and how they change.