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Special interest groups may have vested interests in funding particular countries in spite of a lack of economic freedom. For example, a recent Vancouver Sun editorial recounted how aid dollars were used in a foreign country to ‘educate’ foreign engineers about Canada’s nuclear technology. Essentially, this activity was a marketing program for Candu reactors (Cassels 1999). See also Alesina et al. (1998) for a description of the political/strategic considerations entering into aid allocation decisions.