Bangladesh still needs aid, and Mr Clinton came bearing generous amounts, including $97m in food aid, which may bring temporary benefits in a country where over a third of the people are malnourished.
There is a new world of aid but over a billion people remain poor; they still need help, even if some of them live in countries that now give aid as well as get it.
UN and aid agencies say hundreds of thousands in the Irrawaddy Delta still need assistance a year after Cyclone Nargis.
Even though Spain, like Ireland, has adopted an austerity plan to help it avoid the need for a bailout, it still could need aid if its banking system proves frailer than the government thinks it is, as was the case in Ireland.
Although famine conditions have eased since aid agencies increased their activities in Somalia, four million people still need food aid, with 250,000 experiencing famine.
For a start, Iraq will still need military aid, no matter how much its government throws its weight around.
Yet about 6m Afghans, (the poor, the displaced, and the masses of refugees who have returned) will still need food aid during the coming months.
Last year, the UN declared famine in parts of Somalia, the result of drought, poor harvests and conflict, and although that label has been lifted, around 2.5 million people still need humanitarian aid, with around 1.4 million displaced from their farms and homes.
But although millions of children still need emergency aid, Congress is not acting like it.
