As all but the most belligerent critics of US President George W Bush will acknowledge, America has taken an important lead in trying to make things marginally better. The Bush administration has put outright grants at the center of its foreign-assistance policy, a commitment that is embodied in its new aid agency, the “Millennium Challenge Account.”
除了美国总统乔治·W·布什最疯狂的批评者，恐怕所有人都承认美国在改变现状方面起了重要的带头作用。布什政府把直接赠款作为起对外援助政策的核心，这种原则在新的援助机构“千年挑战帐户”中得到了充分的体现。