There has been an impressive proliferation of non-governmental organizations in development cooperation in the last two decades. The main reason for this has been the belief - among both experts and the public at large - that NGOs have a number of advantages over the state sector when it comes...

The European Community is to spend ECU 680 million on food aid in 1982 - an increase of 13.3% over 1981. Is this a sign of growing humanitarianism on the part of the EC or merely the side-product of a policy of agricultural protectionism which in the long run is harmful to the economies of both...