Official Development Assistance, or foreign aid, disbursed by the EU member states reached record levels in 2008, when several member states raised their assistance considerably, while some of the new member states became donors again. This definitive study analyses a wide range of aspects of...

We analyze the interaction of climate and development policy that has taken place since the early 1990s. Increasing dissatisfaction about the results of traditional development cooperation and the appeal of climate policy as a new policy field led to a rapid reorientation of aid flows. At the...

Aid fragmentation is widely recognized as being detrimental to development outcomes. We re-investigate the impact of fragmentation on aid effectiveness in the context of growth, bureaucratic policy, and education, focusing on a number of conceptually different indicators of fragmentation, and...

The changing international and conceptual environments of development co-operation / Olav Stokke -- Austrian aid policy / Michael Obrovsky -- Belgian aid policies in the 1990s / Nathalie Holvoet and Robrecht Renard -- British aid policy in the short Blair years / Oliver Morrissey -- Danish aid...