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This paper focuses on key ways in which donors can improve the quality of foreign assistance and make it more effective in achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The author stresses that donors should be more goal oriented in their assistance programs and work with low-income countries to ensure that poverty reduction strategies have specific goals. The author further emphasizes that donors must go beyond the rhetoric of “country selectivity” and actually begin to allocate aid more seriously to poorer countries with strong and moderate governance.