"the problem with aid

is getting the money to those who need it." Thus spake the editorialin SMH today. Australia gives just .25% GDP compared with the Scandinavian countries which give about .9%. "Too much money has been wasted by incompetent administrations or siphoned off by corrupt regimes. If we know what is going on then why are we seemingly powerless to stop the rot? The academics have told me where the rot is so if they have told me then presumably it is widespread know;ledge. Nearly everyone talks about the rot but if anything it is just laughed offf as another case case of "the land of the unexpected".
"In Papua New Guinea and much of the Pacific, poverty levels have stagnated or crept up" the SMH continues. "despite the highest levels of per capita injections of aid in the world."
So when I get back, hopefully between all parties - the University and myself and DODL we can make sufficient resolutions to emable me to work to get University courses deliverable to the teachers in the first instance because education in the provinces has immediate impact where it counts.