William Easterly

But I think there is a very fundamental problem in donor countries that they just don't ask the recipients often enough what they actually need.

A guy called William Easterly, who's an American, he used to work for USAID and I think he worked for the World Bank, wrote a book called The White Man's Burden, which of course harks back to a Kipling-era concept that looking after the "natives" in scare quotes [laughs] is the White Man's burden.

It's the burden of the colonist to look after these savages.

Mm-hmm.