Provided for over 60 years, and expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation, foreign aid is now a $100bn business. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? In this first-ever, overall assessment of aid, Roger Riddell provides a rigorous but highly readable account of aid, warts and all.

Minorities, minority rights and development: an issues paper is part of a 3-4 year programme of work which MRG is beginning with partners to improve the access to development opportunities of poor and marginalized minority communities. Four research papers (of which this is the first) will be combined with country/communities case studies and studies documenting particular minority perspectives on recent development activities. This detailed research will form the basis for a concerted lobbying effort involving minority communities themselves as well as MRG staff and targeting donor Non-Governmental Agencies, Inter-Governmental Agencies and Governments.

Foreign investment is even less likely to meet Sub-Saharan Africa's rising foreign exchange and savings gaps in the 1990s than in the dismal 1980s. Investors interested in Sub-Saharan Africa are more likely to commit technology and management than equity capital. Economic activity and overall economic policy may be more effective at raising the total volume of investment than special fiscal and other incentives.

Monograph on the poverty datum line as a wage determination standard, illustrated by a case study of rhodesia (Zimbabwe) - examines its application to agricultural workers, miners, domestic workers, etc. References and statistical tables.

Provides an overview of the complex relationship between minorities, minority rights and development. Includes a discussion of the policies of development aid bodies.

Monograph on role of the educational system in relation to employment opportunities during transition of Rhodesia to Zimbabwe - covers literacy, number of teachers, provision for further education, educational expenditure, comments on the education legislation of 1979, and examines black and White educational level, and employment figures and labour demand under proposed educational policy. References.