This study was presented in draft form to the United Nations Regional Symposium for African Law, held in Accra, Ghana, in January 1971. Copies of the draft were sent to the Scandinavian assistance agencies ... Corrections and additions have been incorporated in this text, which also includes a summary of the discussions at the Accra Conference, where the Institute was represented by Dr. Zdenek Červenka. While national programmes are given considerable publicity in the information issued by the various departments, this is the first attempt to give information on the development efforts made by the Scandinavian countries, to try to assess and compare some of their features and to explain the machinery for their implementation. (From the preface)
Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- I. Policy and development aid in the Scandinavian countries -- II. The machinery for the administration of development aid -- III. Types of development agreements -- IV. The general terms and conditions under which Scandinavian financial aid is provided -- V. The nature of the obligations of the contracting parties to the development agreement -- VI. Status of the personnel provided under development agreements -- VII. The settlement of disputes -- VIII. Conclusions -- Notes -- Annex I: Seven points of Swedish foreign aid policy by Ernst Michanek, Director-General, SIDA -- Annex II: Basic plan for Swedish official development assistance, 1969/70-1972/73 -- Annex III: Norwegian net official development assistance -- Annex IV: Danish development assistance 1962-70 -- Annex V: Flow of Finnish resources to less-developed countries and multilateral agencies -- Annex VI: Organisation chart of the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA) -- Annex VII: Organisation chart of the Norwegian Agency for International Development (NORAD)