This benchmark study by two leading authorities on international development cooperation:
* Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of aid as it has evolved over the last 50 years.
* Pays special attention to the new challenges facing donors and recipients since the end of the Cold War.
* Reviews bilateral and multilateral agencies motives, development goals and aid strategies and deals extensively with the actual delivery of aid and how donors interact with actors in developing countries.
* Deals comprehensively with the role of NGOs from both the North and the South...