ONLY DROPS OF AID ACTUALLY HELP THE POOR

Real aid, the aid money that is actually made available for funding development in the poorest countries, is running at only about USD 30 billion a year or less than 40% of the total aid volume. Administrative costs, technical assistance, accounting for debt relief, tying aid to purchases from the donor country, and aid to geo-strategically important but less needy countries are some of the reasons that more than 60% of the current aid volume is not available as money that can be spent on real and urgent development needs such as health and basic education.