Aid seems to have made no difference.
The importance of diversity Aid has built all kinds of things in the Pacific. Bridges, roads, wharves, buildings and institutions all stand as monuments to the development assistance process. Aid has, to an extent, also built people. Many of the leaders in the Region owe their education and their ideology to the mighty munificence of aid. The economics of modernisation, of economic growth, of laissez faire and of small government encouraging export-led industrial expansion were learned by many leaders on aid scholarships or on aid sponsored courses or even at aid meetings.