ABSTRACT
Development administration and the administration of aid, as well as the antecedents, present state and future potential of the economy of countries studied, are, for all practical purposes, partly overlapping constituents of a complex whole that also encompasses politics in the broadest sense of the word. Each of these elements, therefore, will have to figure in the present study, although the focus will remain on the administration of development and aid. The framework might be called a political economy one, though without the ideological connotations which that term has carried.
