This evaluation commissioned by the European Commission aims at providing an overall independent assessment of its external cooperation with partner countries through the organisations of the UN family. It covers the partnership between the Commission and the UN to the extent of the...

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...