Eyben, Rosalind

The amount of aid that flows to Middle Income Countries (MICs) has recently been challenged and some donors are shifting the balance of their aid so that more goes to poorer countries. Is there still a role for aid to MICs and what should that role be? Drawing on cases from the Andean region and Jamaica, this paper seeks to contribute to that debate within the current context of the Millennium Aid Consensus and the new ways of working that include greater emphasis on country ownership and programmatic and budget support.

A previous bibliography commissioned by Department for International Development (DfID) concentrated on 'economic' inequality. This later bibliography is a complementary review looking at 'social' and 'political' inequality. It is targeted at a wider readership with a view to stimulating a debate among practioners and academics concerning the conceptual understandings of inequality and the implications of these for development policy and practice.|This volume contains two sections. The first section, written by Rosalind Eyben, is a review essay with its own references.

Written by a chief social development advisor with DfID (the UK Department for International Development), this article describes when, why and how an understanding of the social dimension became main-streamed into the policy and practice of the British aid programme. Exploring the growth within the context of the changing political aid environment of the final quarter of the last century, the history of social development within the British aid programmes is described from its origins in the mid-1970s up to 1997.