(1.) An opinion article from the New York Times by Pulitzer-winning author Tina Rosenberg. Fair warning - this one is somewhere between medium-length and a little long, but it talks about a cash-on-delivery proposition instead of the current system of foreign aid :
How to Protect Foreign Aid? Improve It
(2.) If you've got access to audio and little time, another perspective to think about - Trailer for Good Fortune, a PBS documentary (length 2 min 37 sec) :
Foreign aid - good intentions gone wrong (trailer for Good Fortune)
*If for whatever reason you can't watch the video (or you want clarification on what you saw in the trailer), there's a summary of the documentary here under "About the Film."
(3.) Another clip of commentary on foreign aid, this one by economist and bestselling author Dambisa Moyo, as presented on The Globe and Mail (length 1 min 39 sec) :
How foreign aid helps fuel the despots
*Alternatively, you can get a look at Dambisa Moyo's views on foreign aid via summary of her book Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working (as presented in a Washington Times book review) here. If you're short on time, I'd skip to the second page. Also note that although it says there are 3 pages, the third page just has a blurb about the book reviewer, who is apparently a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a former special assistant to President Reagan. In other words, there are only two pages of article.
*And just for the sake of completeness, for those who don't know, The Globe and Mail is the largest-circulation newspaper (and second-largest daily circulating newspaper) in Canada.
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