When the major aid organizations made flows of aid conditional on changes in policy, they
prompted an extensive debate in development circles. Aid and Power has made one of the …

Foreign aid is a complex international institution which, over the years, has experienced a
number of transformations. Most of these changes, however, cannot be understood outside …

From the outset the study of international economic development has been closely tied to
questions about the need for, and the potential contributions of, what has become known as …

Originally published in 1981, this book analyses how development aid works in practice. It
presents a critique of the practice of foreign aid, analyses the aid process, who controls it …

This book traces the evolution of concessional financing to Third World countries from its
postwar origins in the Marshall Plan to the debt crisis that engulfed virtually the entire Third …

Aid is an international operation channelling tens of billions of dollars to developing
countries each year and employing large numbers of people in a multitude of organisations …

Foreign aid has increasingly become subject to political conditionality. In the 1980s some
institutions made aid dependent upon the recipient countries' economic policy reforms …

Why do countries give foreign aid? Although many countries have official development
assistance programs, this book argues that no two of them see the purpose of these …

Sumner and Mallett review the literature on aid in light of shifts in the aid system and the
increasing concentration of the world's poor in middle-income countries. As a consequence …

This paper argues that foreign aid programmes originated as part of the ideological
confrontation known as the Cold War and that the motives behind aid were always more …