More money flows from poor nations to rich nations every year than the other way around. The Global South is a net creditor to the Global North, which is a mind-blowing fact that reverses the way that we think about how development industry works. For $1 in aid that the South receives, they actually lose $24 in net outflows. We need to stop thinking of aid as a solution - it makes the takers in the system, rich countries, appear like givers and gives them a moral high ground that obscures the way the global economic system actually works.