Ch. 1. Development aid in the post-cold war era -- Ch. 2. The project approach to development : a blunted edge? -- Ch. 3. The environment and sustainable development -- Ch. 4. Can development organizations be reinvented? : Organizational reform and decentralization in the developing world -- Ch. 5. Participation : development from below? -- Ch. 6. The growth of gender perspectives in development -- Ch. 7. Howe to help a failing patient : the difficult state of evaluation in development projects.