ABSTRACT
Until the middle of the eighties, there was virtually no official aid from Luxembourg. Since 1986, ODA has been growing rather steadily, reaching 0.35% of GNP in 1995. 1 For 1996, 0.42% of GNP has been set as an intermediate target on the way to the achievement of 0.7% in the year 2000. The latter target, (re)proclaimed at the Rio Summit in 1992, appears in almost every statement on development policy issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as by new Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker. Encouragingly, the new Prime Minister seems to be showing more concern for development issues than his predecessor, Jacques Santer, now president of the European Commission.
