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The other, William Easterly's "The White Man's Burden", rightly mocks the delusions of the aid lobby but exaggerates the negative aspect.
The aid lobby said this justified the subsidies and the budget support which enables them to be paid for.But figures released in 2010, disputed by Malawi's ministry of agriculture, suggest that the harvest was only 2.1m tonnes.
There is almost nobody left, even in the aid lobby, who seriously thinks that bilateral (government-to-government) aid is the sole answer to world poverty, as she suggests.
The problem faced by the aid lobby has always been the extraordinary effectiveness of the cry (usually, but not always, from the right) that most, if not all, aid is wasted.
But in most cases the aid critics are actually countering the moral case of the aid lobby with their own moral retort – we shouldn't give aid because we should spend all our money on our own population and not send it overseas, however much good it might do.
The aid lobby has expressed its outrage at the possibility that British aid money could be switched to defence spending.
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Too often the aid lobbies have cheered them on, loth to acknowledge the flaws in people they need to prove that aid works.
Christian Aid lobbied the IASB in an effort to show how much tax was lost to the exchequers of developing nations when major corporations generated billions of pounds of profits from local manufacturing and mining.
"The pastor's sermon takes away the stigma that HIV is a sin and that it's God's punishment," says Vuyiseka Dubula, general secretary of the powerful Aids lobby group Treatment Action Campaign.
In an expansion of the administration's anti-abortion policies, Mr. Pompeo also said the government was "fully enforcing" a law that prohibits groups from using United States aid to lobby on abortion issues.
The Americans, by contrast, dithered and then partially suspended their aid - ignoring lobbying from Riyadh.
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