The UN Millennium Project Report looks at what is wrong with the aid system, including bilateral aid from governments. It notes that such aid is highly unpredictable, poorly targeted, frequently tied, badly coordinated, driven by donor rather than recipient objectives, influenced by the donor’s geopolitical interests with resulting policy incoherence and not systematically evaluated (UN 2005). Of this long list, it is with this last point that the present article concerns itself. Why do donor governments have problems with learning and how can they help themselves do better? Carlsson and Wohlgemuth (2000) present the following reasons why learning is difficult within the aid relationship:
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