This paper has been prepared as a contribution of the Italian Social and Economic Council to the recurrent debate about critical issues on official development assistance, with some specific reference to the Italian position in this area. After some introductory remarks in Section 1, in Section...

As Riccardo Faini wrote in the paper that gave rise to this VII Commission's Working Group, “… today we can see the need for a profound reform of international institutions that eliminate or at least reduce the inequalities that penalize developing countries, one that simultaneously allows...