Aid generosity lacking in high places

This article appeared in the Financial Express from Bombay, India

From the article:

"The profile of major recipients makes little sense, except to the political strategist who may know how to extract profit from generosity...

As the statistics may not reveal the quality of the aid, an attempt was made by the Centre for Global Development last year to adjust for the qualitative aspects, such as the quality of recipient governance and poverty and penalising tied aid..."