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s efforts to support people in poor countries to push for better public services, but warns that it must be clearer about its goals and more strategic in its allocation of money. The Independent Commission for Aid Impact (Icai) examined UK aid-funded projects in Ghana and Malawi, worth more than £40m, including those designed to help communities play a greater role in how their local schools are run,...

s much vaunted economic growth is failing to trickle down to their daily lives, according to the biggest survey of its kind. "After a decade of growth in Africa, little change in poverty at the grassroots," is the title of a report by the Afrobarometer research project , which questioned 51,605 respondents in 34 countries from October 2011 to June this year. Roughly one in five Africans told researchers...