Well, no, not really. This is another aspect of the last government's spending patterns: they measured "success" or "progress" in terms of how much they spent, not the end result. Jo(e) Voter can be told spending a billion on aid is good; he perhaps doesn't see that half of that goes to well-paid quango employees back home, and the other half into a dictator's Swiss bank account.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on the other hand, is completely focussed on outcomes.