ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two particular issues which exemplify much that is wrong with the present practice. The first is the fact that although the volume of aid provided is manifestly insufficient to make a major impact on development, one of the biggest problems facing donor agencies is how to spend the little money they are allocated. The second is the fact that a major criterion of success of an aid agency is simply its ability to get money spent. The fact that projects proposed by countries are often regarded as too small is more difficult to document since such views are generally only expressed in the preliminary meeting with aid missions, or exchanges of letters about specific project requests. Foreign aid consists essentially in the people of one country providing assistance to the people of another country, each being represented by an agency.
