Aid effectiveness

Oxfam has worked alongside poor people in Central America for more than 25 years, through wars, earthquakes and revolutions. In up-to-date and readable form, this book presents the background to the current social and political crises in the region. Oxfam projects are described in detail. Ordinary people tell their own stories: of life in refugee […]

For years food has been gien to Third World countries to help in their development. But it has made little impact. Too often the food aid tail wags the development dog. Yet the effectiveness of food aid as a tool for development has gone virtually unchallenged.

This is the first of an annual series of Oxfam Reports which will aim to examine some of the fundamental problems associated with development. “A Picture of Poverty” does not claim to provide a blueprint for the alleviation of world poverty. It is merely an attempt to come to grips with some of the issues […]