from the Washington Times: "President Bush, who is currently on a weeklong tour of Africa and will sign several aid packages during the trip, has decided that the money the government gives to fight disease should move primarily through private religious groups, and that infrastructure and development aid should go only to countries that show results in governing justly.
But the White House has also been pointing to the explosion of assistance to Africa by private businesses, nonprofit agencies and religious organizations of varying size.
Fifty years ago, government played the major role in helping the developing world. In the 1960s, the U.S. government disbursed about $5 billion, about $30 billion in today's dollars, which was about 68 percent of U.S. aid to the developing world. Private aid amounted to about $1.4 billion in the late '60s, which is the equivalent to $8.6 billion today.
Government aid has stayed about steady in real dollar terms since the late '60s, with a $27.6 billion disbursement in 2005.
But by 2005, taxpayer-funded assistance was only 17 percent of the equation. Private-sector donations and aid had risen to $136 billion. "
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