Most poor people, according to this memo, now live in countries that are non-aid-dependent.
Some economists, such as Acemoglu and Robinson, suggest that a non-aid-based development relationship is about ensuring good governance in low and middle-income countries.
If we do not close Dar es Salaam we will have to close some other post where non-aid interests may be more substantial.
Mr. Shah said that many contractors were using their tax-exempt status to work on non-aid business that should be taxed.
This changed global setting, where all poor people no longer live in the poorest countries, and aid is no longer their main flow of finance, creates the need for a non-aid-based development relationship.
Though imperfect, this approach mirrors somewhat the Center for Global Development's commitment to development index, making the point strongly that non-aid actions are as important as aid, if not more so.
This post-2015 discussion, however, still seems to shy away from directly addressing the 0.7% target, as well as from concrete discussions about how different non-aid policies should contribute to development.
A few months ago, Justine Greening, the secretary of state at the Department for International Development (DfID), announced the beginning of a new, non-aid based relationship with India focused on trade and the private sector.
Campaigners at Reprieve have accused the government of failing to release full details of a new "rule of law" initiative in Pakistan, granted £9.3m in foreign aid and an undisclosed amount in non-aid funding.
Before the no-loan policy, Princeton's yield on students offered aid consistently lagged behind the yield for non-aid students, according to Robin Moscato, director of undergraduate financial aid.
The DfID note implies that there are now more poor people living in non-aid-dependent countries yet the data I compiled shows, if anything, the opposite: a higher proportion (15%) of the world's poor people now live in high-aid countries, where aid is more than 10% of GNI, than 20 years ago (10%).
