Waste, Overlap, and Inefficiency Still Plague Foreign Aid Programmes (Thomson Reuters)

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A new report by top Washington think tanks finds no measurable advance in reducing waste and duplication in foreign aid programmes, nor any improvement in how aid was distributed in the years from 2008 through 2012, the most recent period for which data were available.

“On the one hand there are visible and significant gains in fostering institutions and in transparency and learning.  However, there has been almost no change in maximizing efficiency or reducing the burden on recipient countries,” authors Nancy Birdsall, president of the Centre for Global Development, and Homi Kharas, senior fellow at Brookings Institution, said in the report.

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