Aid chief hits at dysfunctional US fund regime

  • 17/10/2005

  • Financial Times (London)

The US system for financing aid is "dysfunctional", the head of the US Agency for International Development has said. In an interview in London, Andrew Natsios, the USAID administrator, said the way Congress allocated funding to discrete initiatives made it very difficult to integrate aid in a coherent development effort. Mr Natsios also told that the US would use the $50m (