Examining international aid, Myrdal analyzes an increasingly glaring inconsistency in the valuations underlying international integration. The author looks at the increasing application of the principle of sharing burdens. Myrdal writes that while fiscal and other redistributional policies have been operating in all well-integrated countries, economic inequalities between the various nations have been permitted to grow continuously. Myrdal argues that our weak intergovernmental organizations are, nonetheless, superior to unilateral national philanthropy.
