Making bureaucracies work: Carol H. Weiss and Allen H. Barton (eds.) Sage Publications, 1980 pp. 309

But while there’s a good case for making bureaucracies work, aid is often not very effective at eliciting sustained improvements. For example, John Eyers' post on the review of AusAID's Government Strengthening work in PNG notes the review found positive impacts from aid funded work but also found it "difficult to establish how much... [the work] has strengthened the agencies’ capacity to sustain this performance without support". And in surveying international evidence Roger Riddell notes (on p208) of 'Does Foreign Aid Really Work?', "major difficulties....with few initiatives pointing to significant successes, and most being judged as having failed in a number of key areas and objectives."