Development and Cooperation


	Contributions from the Column Media Does Asia still need development assistance? German development assistance from Hallstein to the oil crisis More help is not always helpful Development cooperation must become more efficient 10/2006		More help is not always helpful Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation (Ed.): Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft / International politics and society, Number 2/2006. Dietz Verlag, Bonn 2006, 183 p., ¤11.00, ISSN 0945-2419, Online edition: http://www.fes.de/ipg/arc_06_set/set_02_06d.htm If the UN Millennium Development Goals are to be achieved, more development aid is needed. However, as Michael Hofmann and Jürgen Zattler of the German Development Ministry explain in “International politics and society”, the ability of poor countries to spend it well is sometimes limited. Nevertheless aid could be increased in such a way as to avoid risk – for example by increasing funding for global public goods such as climate protection or agricultural research, or strengthening state institutions and productive investment. However, how the latter could be implemented in weak states is unclear. Other articles in the journal analyse authoritarian rent-seeking economies in the Middle East, nation building in Taiwan and autocracies in Central Asia. (bl)