The Ills of Aid
Reusse, Eberhard
With this book, Eberhard Reusse channels thirty years of experience with international aid programs into the task of both diagnosing the problems afflicting these programs and formulating a possible cure. Supporting his analysis with detailed case studies of two rural development programs in Africa-the United Nations' "War on Waste" and cereal banks for small-farmer communities-Reusse reveals a system riddled with flaws. Impatient assumptions,...