Danish development aid is analyzed by visiting a sample of projects five years after their completion. The sample is stratified to nine countries chosen to be main, peaceful recipients in the main regions. The criterion of success is if the projects do what it is meant to. If we think the...

The largest and most altruistic development aid programs are the ones of a group of countries known as the Like-Minded Countries. The LMC's are the small rich NW-European countries and Canada. The LMC's have developed a distinct ?soft' aid ideology that differs from the ?hard' ideology of other...