The course is designed to acquaint students with approaches, instruments and main actors in development cooperation. Introduces students to prominent subjects of ongoing debates, such as aid-effectiveness, donor-harmonization approaches and budgetary support systems. The course will also review the changing landscape of development cooperation, from bilateral and multilateral support to private and philanthropic lending. Each student will work on one of six country case studies throughout the course, prepare individual short papers and make a group presentation on the country. The country case studies will be used to apply and study approaches and lessons learnt that have been discussed during classes. This is not a theory course. It will primarily familiarize students with practices, instruments and approaches pursued by practitioners. A solid knowledge of macroeconomics is required; a previous course on development economics is desirable.