Why foreign aid? Setting the stage -- Aid's purposes: a brief history -- The United States: Morgenthau's puzzle -- Japan: the rise and decline of an "aid superpower" -- France: rank et rayonnement -- Germany: a "middle of the roader" -- Denmark: the humane internationalist -- Conclusions and...

Using historical data, we test the validity of Wagner's law of increasing state activity at different stages of economic development for five industrialized European countries: the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Italy. In order to investigate the coherence between Wagner's law and...

The OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) conducts periodic reviews of the individual development co-operation efforts of DAC members. The policies and programmes of each member are critically examined approximately once every five years. DAC peer reviews assess the performance of a given...

Welthistorische Krisenpunkte aus entwicklungstheoretischer Perspektive Ausmaß und Konsequenzen des Peripherisierungsdrucks, Soziale und politische Bedingungen autozentrierter Entwicklung, Autozentrierte Entwicklung trotz Weltmarktintegration: Ein Szenario