This volume presents a state-of-the-art debate on the controversial topic of development aid.

• The contributors are all experts in the field of international development.
  
• Presents some challenging conclusions about the role that aid plays in catalysing, or stifling, development.
  
• Represents a wide range of different analytical perspectives.

Jan P. Pronk was Minister for Development Co-operation of the Netherlands from 1974 to 1977, and from 1989 to 1998, and Minister for Environment from 1998 to 2002. He now holds a Chair in the Theory and Practice of International Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.