For the first year after the Gleneagles meeting, aid numbers were padded by misleading accounting on debt cancellation operations. With those debt cancellation operations largely completed, the data are now revealing the stark truth: development aid to Africa and to poor countries more generally is stagnant, contrary to all the promises that were made.
八国集团现在正遭受这种不作为的苦果。格伦伊格尔斯八国集团峰会后的第一年通过债务免除误导的会计数据夸大了援助数额。这些债务免除大部分已经完成，数据就开始揭示黑暗的事实。那就是，与所有承诺相反的是，向非洲以及贫穷国家提供的发展援助基本上陷于停顿。