"Since the dawn of history the Negro has owned the continent of Africa - rich beyond the dream of poet’s fancy, crunching acres of diamonds beneath his bare black feet and yet he never picked one up from the dust until a white man showed to him its glittering light. His land swarmed with powerful and docile animals, yet he never dreamed a harness, cart, or sled.
A hunter by necessity, he never made an axe, spear, or arrowhead worth preserving beyond the moment of its use. He lived as an ox, content to graze for an hour.
In a land of stone and timber he never sawed a foot of lumber, carved a block, or built a house save of broken sticks and mud.
With league on league of ocean strand and miles of inland seas, for four thousand years he watched their surface ripple under the wind, heard the thunder of the surf on his beach, the howl of the storm over his head, gazed on the dim blue horizon calling him to worlds that lie beyond, and yet he never dreamed a sail.”
— Charles Darwin

Hi all,
I think it is good to have several opinions and diverse viewpoints.
I think this article missed the political aspect of AID and how sometimes it is used to align the targets with certain goals.
I also believe that there is no monitor of how successful or effective aid is to be able to forecast the rate at which it might diminish!!!! I do not know of such a monitoring body.
Please put in mind that some times providing governments might intentially overlook the embezzelment of such aid (i.e. low efficacy in really aiding) if the target can show the correct alignment to provider's goals in that region.

AID is a huge game, and I am posing the question of "is it really meant to stop AID?."
thanks
A/