Preface -- Introduction -- Development cooperation: community, arena and, increasingly, market -- An expanding community -- An arena with plenty to fight over -- A market with many transactions -- From colonialism to the Millennium Development Goals -- Colonial warm-up exercises -- Technical cooperation and knowledge transfer -- Faith in development aid -- Development cooperation: aid in a global setting -- The Washington Consensus and structural adjustments -- International cooperation and the Millennium Development Goals -- Addressing poverty in exchange for debt relief -- Is Paris introducing order to the market? -- More than development aid -- Cooperation means partners -- Internationally: among specialists -- Recipient countries: donor darlings and donor orphans -- Official bilateral cooperation: fractions and fragmentation -- Small players and institutional pluralism -- In search of an institutional foundation for development cooperation -- Decentralisation in order to get closer to the public, or for other reasons? -- Europe's development cooperation patchwork -- Seeking identity and complementarity -- From Yaoundé to Cotonou: from association to agreement -- Strengths and weaknesses of the ACP-EU partnership -- The Cotonou Agreement -- The European Development Fund -- Other instruments -- Europe: a major pioneer? -- A choice in favour of Africa? -- Multilateral cooperation: the UN galaxy -- The UN and development cooperation -- The World Bank: not a cooperative -- Regional development banks -- The United Nations Development Programme -- The rise of new vertical programmes on the UN market -- 'Deliver as one': seeking cooperation on the market -- The NGDOs: bringing values onto the market -- A movement with many faces -- A sector with many roles -- Several generations of NGDOs -- A sector with many different visions and strategies.

A movement with a plural support base -- The sector breaks free from the NGDOs -- Is a new social movement becoming a network movement? -- A fourth pillar on the market -- The key players of the fourth pillar -- A new generation of altruists? -- Starting from a different field -- An alternative way of working -- Mainstreaming development cooperation -- Humanitarian aid: in good shape or going downhill? -- What place for emergency aid? -- Needs and promises -- Cash-and-carry on the market? -- The unbearable lightness of the support for development cooperation -- The uneasy relationship with the support base -- No (more) aid fatigue? -- Popular, yet little understood -- Something needs to be done: but by whom? -- Drawing up the balance sheet -- Progress, but too little, too slowly and not for everyone -- Are we really that generous? -- Who is receiving aid? -- The effectiveness and impact of development cooperation -- Development cooperation: a stumbling-block? -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Endnotes -- Glossary -- Bibliography.