Un rapport récent met en évidence la corrélation entre l’aide internationale et le niveau de corruption dans les pays en voie de développement.
L’auteur, Wolfgang Kasper, ne prend pas de gants :
Aid rarely reaches the poor and is rarely cost-effective. Despite assertions by well-paid foreign-aid lobbyists, unconditional foreign aid has failed.
Thus, huge aid flows to Africa have only rewarded incompetent despots and kleptocratic elites, whereas absolute poverty has plummeted in India and China, countries which have received comparatively little foreign aid.
In countries which derive over half their national budget from foreign aid transfers - as is now the case in many African and South Pacific countries - genuine democracy has no chance.
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