As one of the most pioneering development economists, Hans Singer has stimulated many of the ideas that have engaged the attention of the world community for several decades. Not only has he helped to form an understanding of the problems of developing countries, but he has also shown what might be done to solve them. This collection brings together for the first time key essays on the issues underlying food aid and the development of the UN. These are grouped into five areas: postwar development experience; reform of the United Nations; debt and debt servicing; structural adjustment and stabilization; and food aid.

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HANS SINGER is Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex; Emeritus Professor since 1980. His publications include, as author, Growth, Development and Trade, International Development, Growth and Trade and he is co-editor of Conflict and Change in the 1990s, (with Anthony Carty) and Economics Development and World Debt (with Soumitra Sharma). D.J.SHAW has known and worked with Hans Singer for almost forty years. He was associated with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) for over thirty years. Latterly, he served as WFP's economic adviser and chief of WFP's Policy Affairs Service. He has written extensively on development and food aid issues, and is on the International Editorial Board of the journal Food Policy.

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Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: D.J.Shaw PART I: POSTWAR DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE Lessons of Postwar Development Experience: 1945-88 The 1990s: On To Fortune of Bound in Miseries PART II: REFORM OF THE UNITED NATIONS The Bretton Wood System: Historical Perspective Revitalizing the United Nations PART III: DEBT AND DEBT SERVICING The Debt Issue: An Historical Perspective Debt Pressures, Adjustment Policies and Deterioration of the Terms of Trade for Developing Countries Beyond the Debt Crisis PART IV: STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT AND STABILIZATION Are Structural Adjustment Programmes Successful? Alternative Approaches to Adjustment and Stabilization PART V: FOOD AID The Opportunity and the Challenge: H.W.Singer's Contribution to the International Debate on Food Aid; D.J.Shaw Index