"A proliferation of aid agencies, donors, and projects is fragmenting the global aid system, increasing transaction costs, and weakening efforts to reduce poverty and poor health," according to the U.N.'s recent World Economic and Social Survey (.pdf), BMJ News reports. Though official development assistance for social programs went up, the rise "has not necessarily ushered in more aid. On the contrary, over the past decade the average size of aid projects declined by two thirds while the number of projects increased sixfold globally, says the report...
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