The European Union (EU) recently presented a new development policy agenda that centers on the subject of change. We … first assess the approach of the EU policy by discussing change in the sense of how it is used within the EU agenda. Second … foreign aid approaches, then use the findings to uncover some conceptual flaws in the EU Agenda for Change. Finally, we …

This paper discusses integral implementation problems of the aid harmonization process within the European Union (EU … problems EU donors struggle with. It has turned out that in the past, comparative advantage assessment has been avoided by most … the current EU approach, and finally suggests an alternative route. This paper argues that a more viable procedure must …

The new EU development agenda is an adaptation of an old mismatch in development policy, which is the effort to join …, on the one hand, donor-driven demand for good governance and democracy, and on the other hand, a commitment to the …. This entails context-sensitive analyses of the political and economic environment of the transition process in partner …