Examines the borderline between traditional economic theory and the particular problems of developing countries. The ethics of redistribution, and the impact on the development process of the interaction between national state bureaucracy and international institutions are considered.

A challenge to researchers willing to be activists, Richard Jolly; Adam Smith - forebear of development studies, H.W. Singer; equity, equality and appropriate distribution, Des Gasper; are government aid and private charity morally on a par?, Nigel Dower; some aspects of the present discussion of lawyers on the place of law in development, Anthony Carty; the aid and trade provision as strategic policy, Oliver Morrissey; multilateral development banks and Canadian foreign aid, Jean-Philippe Therien and Maryse Robert; economic nationalism and the regulation of multinational enterprises, P.T. Muchlinski; perestroika and the strategies for Third World development, Vaman Rao; the role of the south in a chaotic world, Frances Stewart; liberalization of agricultural markets - an institutional approach, Anne M. Thompson and Lawrence D. Smith; north-south co-operation in tackling threats to the global environment - a legal perspective on current trends and prospects, John Woodliffe; transfers versus licences as incentives to governments for environmental correctives, Anthony Clunies Ross.