Development Aid is Working
Mark Suzman
“Development Aid is Working”
Huffington Post
June 3, 2010
As the world crawls out of the Great Recession, there has been much hand-wringing about the plight of the world’s poor: how during the crisis the number of hungry people has soared over 1 billion for the first time, how the scourge of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases are still killing millions, and how the lack of education dooms the next generation to falling further behind.
These are all serious and troubling issues, and at first glance they appear to be cause for despair. In fact, as the United Nations prepares to mark the 10th anniversary of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – an ambitious agenda to make concrete, measurable progress across on a range of health and development outcomes – they are even sparking calls that development aid is ineffective and should be cut back heavily at a time of fiscal crisis in many rich countries.
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