Many have shouted down attempts by policymakers to place economic growth as the top priority of development spending.

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But a clutch of Western development officials I've been talking to all acknowledge that the "Madonna Incident" points towards a more general shift - already in progress - away from the top-down aid of past decades and towards a new focus on policy development, partnership and business.

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The World Bank estimates that as much as 30% of Indonesia's development budget over two decades disappeared through civil-service-wide corruption that filtered down from the top.

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And Flynn's tenacity and will to help his country was apparent when he agreed to oversee the development of Wales' younger players despite the being continually turned down by the Welsh FA for the top job.

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