Accepting the premise that transparency and accountability are essential to sustainable development and human progress, why look at aid when there are so many other transparency and accountability challenges? When considered next to ‘rising issues’ such as climate change or financial reform, aid can appear to be yesterday’s issue; and compared with other finance flows (including from natural resources), aid might be considered fairly transparent and accountable – after all, donors are generally acting with better intentions than oil or mining companies. But promoting the transparency and accountability of aid and donor finance should be a priority, for at least three reasons.

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