Do you remember the economist's name? I read an interview over at Midwest Conservative Journal with a Kenyan who was begging that Western aid be stopped. He also brought up the point that AID's numbers in Kenya are very distorted. But I do not remember his name. It started with an S.
The link to the English translation:
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,druck-363663,00.html
The article is in Der Speigel