Rethinking aid

44. It is the responsibility of the industrialised countries not only to increase their aid to the developing countries but also to reappraise the way in which it is distributed. Conditional aid is to be criticised when considered in terms of the lending or donor country, and when it is tied or linked to conditionalities that bind the recipient country to: purchasing goods manufactured in the donor state, using specialised expatriate labour to the detriment of local labour, complying with structural adjustment programmes, etc. Conversely, unconditioned aid may be considered to truly produce the best results, as evidenced in multiple cases. However, this does not mean that conditional aid should be discarded out of hand, provided that it is designed in such a way that it fairly distributes the benefits to all the parties concerned and makes it possible to manage soundly the resources provided.