Quotation of the day

quote of the day comes from The DiploMad

Rethink foreign aid.... In the vast majority of cases, the money is consumed by a welter of consultants, NGOs, and bureaucrats. (For example) the empowering of women. Domestic groups form alliances with favored groups in "recipient" countries, and cook up lame projects that involve a lot of travel, conferences, and setting up offices with nice logos, fax machines, cellphones, and websites...