Prologue: A Tale of Two Foreign Aid Initiatives -- 1. Foreign Aid: A Problem Posing as a Solution? -- 2. Who is Aiding Whom? -- 3. The Aid Regime and Power Agendas -- 4. Aid in Chains -- 5. Towards the Receiving End -- 6. Governance without Politics? -- 7. When Money Talks, What Does it Tell Us? -- 8. Outcomes in Four Dimensions -- 9. End of the Beginning or Beginning of the End? -- App. A. Major donors' top five recipients -- App. B. Five decades of foreign aid: political and economic highlights -- App. C. Intensity of ODA over three decades -- App. D. The debt -- App. E. Sources of information and debate
