"The international aid system has a dirty secret. Despite much rhetoric
to the contrary, the nations and organizations that donate and
distribute aid do not care much about democracy and they still actively
support dictators. The conventional narrative is that donors supported
dictators only during the cold war and ever since have promoted
democracy. This is wrong. Dictators have received a remarkably constant
share—around a third—of international aid expenditures since 1972."
William Easterly skriver i New York Review of Books.