Rotting from the Head: Donors and LDC Corruption, Salim Rashid (Ed.) : book review

Rotting from the Head is a provocative title and the work intends no less than to expose donor corruption in least developed countries (LDCs). The work raises two themes - the first is the already prominent debate around the effectiveness of international aid in achieving its stated goals of alleviating poverty and, for example, addressing the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The second theme goes to the institutional practices of country level development assistance - the credibility and transparency in operations, disbursement of funds, and supervision of aid programmes - explored through the lens of a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) project gone bad in Bangladesh.