http://www.nytimes.com/cfr/international/20040901facomment_
v83n4_siegle-weinstein-halperin.html Foreign Aid should preferentially be given to
democracies; they’ll make better use of it. Also, according
to this piece, the World
Bank and the IMF are actually prohibited from
“considering democratic legitimacy” in making aid
decisions. (They were set up this way to encourage the Soviet Union to participate, and to
“minimize the role of politics in macroeconomic
policymaking.”) 22:35