100 English words for 'The paradox whereby aid agencies report the success of most of their programs, yet it is impossible to establish any significant correlation between aid and GDP growth in developing countries.'

micro-macro paradox

Micawber threshold

mercantilism

BRICS

foreign aid

culminate

convergence

government failure

deglobalization

scissors crisis

you can't win them all

need-based

market failure

additionality

ministrative

catch-up effect

antiwelfare

eco-

hyperglobalism

unprogressive

impossibilism

indigence

credit crunch

suffrage

nonadvancement

insoluble

insuperable

unsolvable

monetary impotence

max out

pull off

the cake is a lie

wing and prayer

incorrigible

no guts, no glory

monetarism

welfare

middle income trap

help

deflation

marginal utility

Celtic Tiger

paradox of thrift

nonexponential

mitching

turn up trumps

World Bank

IBRD

close only counts in horseshoes

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

rags to riches

you don't get something for nothing

Okun's law

pauperization

welfare trap

supereconomy

need

incapableness

pogey

struggling

unsupported

penury

economically

incapability

supply-sider

Economic Commission for Africa

subvention

dead-end

pauperism

positive economics

economic

subaffluent

microeconomist

miserliness

noncontribution

the game is not worth the candle

-trophy

inexorable

home help

futile

ptochology

relief

econo-

pull the devil by the tail

microeconomic expert

no-win situation

black swan event

stand together

corporate welfare bum

tiger

submerged

economywide

poorness

Treasury

First Lord of the Treasury

business cycle

intractable

unalliable

success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone