Is aid working? Is this the right question to be asking? | openDemocracy

Is aid working? Is this the right question to be asking? | openDemocracy:

"The systemic and cumulative effect of (all) aid agencies placing in the public domain evidence so heavily weighted in favour of aid’s successes is to discourage serious public debate about aid and its merits, a situation fuelled by aid’s critics adopting a very similar approach.� Aid’s supporters cite cases of aid to press the general case that “aid works”, aid’s critics cite particular examples of aid’s failures to try to make the general case that “aid doesn’t work”.� The result is that public discussions of aid are characterised by a lack of effective debate and engagement, conducted more like ships passing in the night.�"