So might millions of dollars of foreign development aid which, despite decades of trying, have failed to deliver "good governance" or economic development.
This article retraces the intricate web of foreign development experts and networks of aid underpinning the 'architecture of nation-building' in two post independence capital cities: Kinshasa (DRCongo) and Dodoma (Tanzania).
As is generally the case abroad, Mrs. Clinton has been a political asset to the President here, partly because of her previous trip and her advocacy of foreign development.
The huge inflow of foreign development aid also led to corruption and prompted the government, which contributes roughly one-tenth of its AIDS budget, to rely on outside financing.
Yet today, after suppression of opposition following the election in 2005 and a rigged poll earlier this year, life in Ethiopia is more akin to the days of the "Derg" regime, overthrown by the EPRDF in 1991.Ethiopia, desperately poor, remains one of the largest recipients of foreign development aid some $3 billion annually.
In between these two poles, we are confronted with the new realities of foreign development aid.
There are no police checkpoints, no American troops and no sign of any foreign development projects — including his own.
In a move that saw it expand beyond its original focus on the Canadian energy sector it became a fierce critic of Canadian foreign development policy.
In a move that saw it expand beyond its original focus on the Canadian energy sector, it became a fierce critic of Canadian foreign development policy.
In cases on subjects ranging from gay rights to the death penalty to the legal liabilities of multinational businesses, the Supreme Court is engaged in a vigorous debate over the extent to which United States courts should take account of foreign legal developments.
