The same element of chance can derail a career. NGOs come and go;
funding is provided for a specific project and then ends. A friend told us
a particularly sad story of seeing a former NGO colleague selling tomatoes
in the market—her luck was bad, the NGO left the country, and she
couldn’t get another job.7 For elite brokers, such misfortunes are like the
vagaries of the weather for subsistence farmers: sometimes it rains too
much, sometimes too little, sometimes just right. The brokers, would-be
brokers, and intermediaries of all sorts are like corks—continually bobbing
to the surface but with little control over their direction—in the churning
wake of billions of dollars of foreign aid.
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