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My short version: Paris and Busan were about "how" to make aid better. But in the intervening period the more salient questions around aid were "why" and "who"? Or, maybe more accurately, "whether" to do aid at all. Paris and Busan were before Brexit and Trump, when there was a presumed consensus on these latter questions. That consensus eroded, or maybe it never really existed. In any case, as valuable and important as aid effectiveness is, there isn't much of a political market for it any more.

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