The United Nations Development Program has championed the position that all countries should get significant aid, regardless of how they are governed, on the grounds that thousands of children die every day and there is no room for sanctimonious extremism. I beg to differ; my reading of the evidence suggests that donors really do need to take extreme care not to make things worse, and that this is far more difficult to achieve in corrupt countries than the UN suggests.
联合国开发计划署支持无论管理状况是否尽如人意，所有国家都应该获得大笔援助，理由是每天都有成千上万的儿童死亡，没有时间再去推行冠冕堂皇的极端主义。这种说法恕我无法苟同。我所了解的事实说明捐赠国确实需要小心谨慎，防止把事情搞得更糟，在腐败国家实现上述目标比联合国所说的要困难得多。