"increasingly..."

I've been checking out some different news sources, and saw my favorite junk news word: "increasingly." First rate journalists almost never use the word, but sloppy hacks increasingly use the word to turn an old topic into news.

Here is today's offender: "Africa Tackles Graft, With Billions in Aid in Play : Increasingly, donors to African nations have watched their aid vanish into a sinkhole of fraud and waste."

Increasingly? I thought it was decreasingly. Third World African officials have ALWAYS squandered aid, but charities increasingly find ways to control and audit the use of their funds. Yet we increasingly focus on the sins of the Africans, rather than our own sins. We could solve poverty by removing our own barriers to trade, but we increasingly reject that option.