Ever wondered about the budget of the United Nations specialised organs? The figure below is from The Economist.
Note that only six institutions on the list have budgets over one billion dollars.
In 2002, the treasury department of the UK projected that the budget of DFID would be increased to 4.6billion pounds per year, by 2005/2006. The budget estimate (pdf) of the USAID for 2008 is 22.1billion dollars.
Is anybody surprised that UN institutions under-perform?
(I probably should add that not all the institutions in the table are UN organs. Thanks, Virginie, for calling my attention to the misunderstanding this could cause.)