Dealing With Aid Fatigue?

Published February 9, 2005

"We've never had a flood of this nature for the past 115 years," says Guyana's High Commissioner, Rajnarine Singh, of the late January floods that have crippled his homeland. "It's something that took us by surprise. The structure we have in place is not capable for this type of situation," he says.

Guyana's situation comes at a bad time. After a generous outpouring of international attention and aid...