The development sector has increasingly become saturated by development consultancies, which are given the responsibility of funneling donor funding to poorer countries. International development experts working as consultants often charge a $1,000 or more per day, as they trot the globe, going from one poor country to another, advising them how to improve the lot of their poor masses. Armed with unflinching beliefs in their academic credentials, and economic ideologies, international development experts often lack knowledge of local conditions or about the different communities where their proposed development interventions are meant to be introduced. Many development policies and projects are thus based on imperfect and incomplete understanding of specific locational circumstances. The adverse impacts of faulty development policies and practices formulated by so-called development experts cannot be underestimated.

Source: The Express Tribune October 30, 2020 08:15 UTC