A decisive change now seems to be occurring in the development practices of the major OECD donor countries. Their own economic objectives are being moved distinctly closer to centre stage. Changes in the instruments of development policy are reputed to generate direct benefits for their own...

Economic growth of LDCs depends decisively on the volume of foreign currency avaliable to them. Apart from financial aid, such currencies can only be earned by exports. However, almost 90 p.c. of all export revenue of LDCs flows from shipments of raw and base materials, and thus, increasing...

Der entwicklungsökonomische Diskurs ist aktuell geprägt durch eine kontroverse Debatte zwischen Jeffrey Sachs und William Easterly. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert beide Ansätze aus ordonomischer Perspektive. Er argumentiert, dass eine auf Kooperation angelegte Semantik vergleichsweise besser...