As a more critical view is being taken of traditional development aid concepts, alternative means of advancing the resource transfer between industrialized and developing countries have attracted increasing attention in recent years. A system of tendentially automated transfer payments to...

The process of European integration can be described as the increasing interdependence between economies at different levels of development and with different productive capabilities. It evolved from a pre-eminently political project to a ‘de-politicised’ management based on the automatism...

Compared with the issues of economic and monetary policy the EEC Treaty says little about a common cyclical policy, and no great advances have been made towards such a policy since the Treaty of Rome was drafted. Which impediments are holding up progress in this direction?