This fund will mainly help pay salaries of government officials and equip their offices.

I am uncomfortable when any head of state that is tyrannical and predatory comes to a conference like this, and he (Mugabe) fits that category. He is causing the crisis in Zimbabwe.

You have to make changes to the capacity of governments to manage programs, to write the right laws, to have the rule of law,

The physical evidence of the mess is a reminder every hour of the day that everything is gone, ... restore a sense of hope that they are not being forgotten and not being lost.

If you put too much aid too quickly into weak institutions, where there isn't capacity, you have corruption, and the programs don't work.

Bono and many other very well-intentioned people have really never actually run aid programs and seen what happens,