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This is a firsthand account of what really goes on in the world of international development assistance. Samia Altaf, senior official in the Department of Health in Washington DC, was caught up as a consultant in a huge World Bank-funded project to improve the abysmal conditions in the social sector in Pakistan. The project ended in much-publicized disaster-corruption, controversy, non-delivery, and an official fraud inquiry. This book is an engrossing and honest eyewitness account of why international aid fails more often than it succeeds in developing countries.Altaf, Samia is the author of 'Aid Without Development A Tale of International Consultants, Aid and Development' with ISBN 9781842771631 and ISBN 1842771639.
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