If democracy assistance is supposed to enhance democratic practice, it should not be aggregated with programs designed to improve health, education, the environment, or economic growth, notes a recent article on the latest USAID`s report. Carefully tailored democracy assistance packages can positively affect democratization independent of factors that influence the decision to provide aid, research suggests. Targeted democracy aid appears to provide “more bang for the buck” than other forms of assistance. Read more here.
Source: Democracy Digest
