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Continuum This book is a "must read" for anyone, particularly engineers or Economic Development career people. The tone set my teeth on edge a little - too many "culpa meas," but I figured an exposure of our "Aid" machinary could only come from a professional self promoter anyway - it takes a scammer to expose one. The overall message is sound though like others here I don't agree with all the black and white points of view, demonizations, conspiritorial tones or Perkins' painting and degree of angst regarding who the innocents and villains are. As an Aid professional, a British citizen, born and raised in British Colonial Kenya, I recognized this book more as a description of the continuum of Colonialism. My opinion is that now we are in an age where the people, the global consumers and the peasants and the workers all can DO something about it. The biggest challenge Aid faces today is Poverty. Self sufficiency, sustainabiulity and trade issues are critical, how we spend our resources can be more effective than how we vote. Do it well and don't exaggerate how morally bankrupt the USA is or how innocent the peasants are because it only exacerbates and cements more deeply the victim/recipient and donor/exploiter role. As an immigrant to the USA I see this country as equally generous as misguided and ignorant. I see many 3rd world countries believing that THEIR solutions come from lighter skins and "first world educations." I see Aid organizations believe that 3rd world solutions only flow from where the money comes from rather than where the problems are. Aid is an exchange. This book shines a light on OUR cooperation with meaningless, mindless, "do-good-ism" that does harm more than "THEM" - whoever the bad guys are.