Kunibert Raffer, formerly Professor, Department of Economics, University of Vienna, Austria and the late H.W. Singer, formerly Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

’Raffer and Singer’s volume contains many useful chapters on issues such as Lome, food aid and conditionality.’- Howard White, Development and Change’. . . the book is a useful contribution to the literature. Most of the major contemporary issues surrounding aid are discussed.’- Mark McGillivray, Journal of Development Studies

• Contents: Part I: Aid – What is it? 1. Aid and Help – A Necessary Distinction 2. Aid as One Aspect of North–South Relations 3. Multilateralism in the Aid and Development Business 4. Aid During the Cold War Part II: Specific Sources and Forms of Aid 5. Food Aid: A Conceptual and Statistical Quagmire 6. Advantages and Disadvantages of Food Aid 7. Lomé: From Contractuality to Conditionality 8. Japan, the Emerging Aid Giant 9. South-South Aid: OPEC and other Southern Donors 10. Aid and NGOs Part III: New Trends in Aid 11. Aid Conditionality 12. Political Conditionality – Illustrating Double Standards 13. Aid and Human Development 14. The Future of Aid: Proposals for Change Bibliography Index

Kunibert Raffer, formerly Professor, Department of Economics, University of Vienna, Austria and the late H.W. Singer, formerly Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

’Raffer and Singer’s volume contains many useful chapters on issues such as Lome, food aid and conditionality.’- Howard White, Development and Change’. . . the book is a useful contribution to the literature. Most of the major contemporary issues surrounding aid are discussed.’- Mark McGillivray, Journal of Development Studies

• Contents: Part I: Aid – What is it? 1. Aid and Help – A Necessary Distinction 2. Aid as One Aspect of North–South Relations 3. Multilateralism in the Aid and Development Business 4. Aid During the Cold War Part II: Specific Sources and Forms of Aid 5. Food Aid: A Conceptual and Statistical Quagmire 6. Advantages and Disadvantages of Food Aid 7. Lomé: From Contractuality to Conditionality 8. Japan, the Emerging Aid Giant 9. South-South Aid: OPEC and other Southern Donors 10. Aid and NGOs Part III: New Trends in Aid 11. Aid Conditionality 12. Political Conditionality – Illustrating Double Standards 13. Aid and Human Development 14. The Future of Aid: Proposals for Change Bibliography Index

Kunibert Raffer, formerly Professor, Department of Economics, University of Vienna, Austria and the late H.W. Singer, formerly Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

’Raffer and Singer’s volume contains many useful chapters on issues such as Lome, food aid and conditionality.’- Howard White, Development and Change’. . . the book is a useful contribution to the literature. Most of the major contemporary issues surrounding aid are discussed.’- Mark McGillivray, Journal of Development Studies

• Contents: Part I: Aid – What is it? 1. Aid and Help – A Necessary Distinction 2. Aid as One Aspect of North–South Relations 3. Multilateralism in the Aid and Development Business 4. Aid During the Cold War Part II: Specific Sources and Forms of Aid 5. Food Aid: A Conceptual and Statistical Quagmire 6. Advantages and Disadvantages of Food Aid 7. Lomé: From Contractuality to Conditionality 8. Japan, the Emerging Aid Giant 9. South-South Aid: OPEC and other Southern Donors 10. Aid and NGOs Part III: New Trends in Aid 11. Aid Conditionality 12. Political Conditionality – Illustrating Double Standards 13. Aid and Human Development 14. The Future of Aid: Proposals for Change Bibliography Index