Are aid agencies improving?
评估援助机构的表现，发现除对受援国人均收入敏感度提高、粮食援助和捆绑援助减少外，多数证据显示援助机构未随经验或新知识改进，仍重复过去错误。
The record of the aid agencies over time seems to indicate weak evidence of progress in response to learning from experience, new knowledge, or changes in political climate. The few positive results are an increased sensitivity to per capita income of the recipient (although it happened long ago), a decline in the share of food aid, and a decline in aid tying. Most of the other evidence – increasing donor fragmentation, unchanged emphasis on technical assistance, little or no sign of increased selectivity with respect to policies and institutions, the adjustment lending-debt relief imbroglio – suggests an unchanged status quo, lack of response to new knowledge, and repetition of past mistakes.— William Easterly