In recent times, the EC-Commission has developed the opinion that, contrary to present practice, food for the purpose of aid ought to be produced systematically. From the point of view of development policy, such notions must rouse serious doubts in their soundness, which would be virtually...

Development failures are less the result of “natural” short-comings, but are caused instead by false conceptions and by the misapplication of experience from highly-developed economic systems to countries in the initial development stage. The following article points out the pit-falls and...