ABSTRACT
Both bilateral and multilateral donors attach considerable importance to development cooperation that seeks to achieve a lasting and selfsustaining improvement in the living conditions of the poor majority of the developing countries’ rural population. It is generally agreed that only wide-ranging agricultural and rural development will eliminate the mass poverty which is particularly prevalent in the rural areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America. However, the controversy over both the means to this end and the resources to be used continues, although some meeting of the minds has recently been observed.
