During the transformation of planned economies to market economies subsidies can play a dual role: they can be used either to make enterprises viable in a market environment or to perpetuate structural adjustment problems. In consequence they may either foster or distort Community an din a wider...

In 2007, five donors (European Commission, Belgium, Denmark, France and Luxembourg) decided to work together to evaluate their cooperation with Niger over the 2000-2008 period. Together, the five Donors taking part in the evaluation (DPE) accounted for more than half the Official Development...