ABSTRACT

Originally published between 1981 and 1990 the volumes in this set:

  • Examine the relationship between bilateral foreign aid and multilateral foreign aid.
  • Include a comprehensive study of United States foreign aid allocation from 1961-1983 and the significance it has for US Foreign Policy as a whole.
  • Analyse how development aid works in practice.
  • Critique the practice of foreign aid, analyse the aid process and investigate the exercise of leverage by donors.
  • Discuss the significance of Australia’s contribution to overseas aid for the future.
  • Focus principally on the use of foreign aid by the members of OPEC in the 1970s.

1. Australian overseas aid 2. OPEC and the Third World : the politics of aid 3. The contradictions of foreign aid 4. U.S. economic foreign aid : a case study of the United States Agency for International Development