Behind their rapid economic progress are tremendous European Community subsidies and developmental aid.

ODA includes developmental and humanitarian aid, the latter being much the smaller of the two.

About 80-85% of developmental aid comes from government sources as official development assistance (ODA).

A tarnished record had harmed the efforts to gain greater access to developmental aid and foreign investment.

It is also viewed by some as a promising sort of developmental aid.

It assumes that developmental aid will decline by more than half, to $200 million this year, and taper off to $100 million by 2008.

Besides this the Federal Republic saw it as a form of developmental aid.

Third-world nations fear that their overriding concerns, like debt, falling raw-material prices and developmental aid, will be overlooked.

Others meditated on the incongruity of Japan's giving $1.2 billion a year in developmental aid to China.

The solutions proposed operate within the bounds of capitalist development and the EU's developmental aid.