In Balaka - a typical Malawian town with its low buildings, bustling market and cyclists filling the roads - there seem to be aid organizations everywhere.

Two international non-governmental organizations have large offices by the main road. Turn to a side road, and there is another NGO. Signposts point the way to still others.

The town of 350,000 residents at about 300 kilometres south of the capital Lilongwe has 35 registered NGOs working in every possible field from...read more here: Aid did not liberate Malawi from poverty