New Directions in Aid Policy for Rural Development: Editorial

New Directions for Urban Policy

Contrary to the conventional diagnosis of urban problems, this article argues that these problems do not arise from the long-term trends in the decentralization of employment and population in metropolitan areas. Instead, the most important fiscal problems confronted by central-city governments and the most significant social and economic problems of central-city residents arise from increased ...

The New Strategic Directions of Rural Development in Hungary

The notion of sustainability is the basis for our future possibilities. Local sustainability, in the centre of which can be found the livable settlement, is especially important in rural areas. Without developing rural areas, there is no developing society. The growth of the Earth’s population and the world economy has already surpassed the carrying capacity of this planet which may result in a...

Editorial Note: Membranes for Development

Future Directions for Development and Relief with Food Aid

Poverty alleviation and food security are two prominent features on the international agenda. The provision of sustainable employment is seen as a major factor in the attainment of those goals. Access by the poor to food and work, combined with the construction of essential infrastructure and accumulation of assets, has long been seen both in economic theory and practice to be an effective appr...

From aid to global development policy

The international community has advanced in reforming the international aid system. Such reform comes at a time when there is a renewed skepticism about aid effectiveness and when the crisis sheds new doubts about the sustainability of donors ́ commitments. At the same time, the international reality has changed as a consequence of the growing heterogeneity of the developing world, the new geogr...