Are aid agencies improving?

摘要

For long-time observers of foreign aid,the recent wave of attention to 'make poverty history' in Africa and other poor countries has some disquieting signs.The United Nations,the World Bank,the International Monetary Fund (IMF),and the national aid agencies have signed on to an ambitious project called the 'Millennium Development Goals',in which poverty rates,infant mortality,and other key indicators of low development would be dramatically reduced by the year 2015.To achieve this,aid agencies have embraced and advocated a programme of large aid increases.