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[quote=Anonymous]When I worked overseas for a long time, I did have some exposure to the world of international donor aid and it wasn't entirely flattering. A seasoned veteran who'd done a lot of contracting work with NGOs funded by USAID explicitly said to me that it's billions sloshing around and nothing ever really changes on the ground. And this was 10 years ago.

You can see from the examples given here that most money went to salary and overhead, not direct grants. But even on the ground, those grants go to local contractors and consultants, which is another level of cronyism often involving local politics and connected families. The economic research projects never go anywhere. Water pipes to a village may eventually get built, and then rebuilt, and then rebuilt, often by the same contractor. It's hard to have sympathy for something that may have been well meaning but ended up being more self justifying and staffed by people who kept themselves busy with many meetings and talking the idealistic talk but actual output is more vanity for these same people than anything they delivered.

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