Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel peace prize winner who played a key role in ending apartheid in South Africa, has questioned assumptions laid out in the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals as well as the approach of big western donors in Africa.

“The massive things are good if they are bringing resources. But those resources will mean nothing if the people you are seeking to influence can’t use the resources, or if you turn them into paupers,” the former archbishop of Cape Town told the FT.