Looking at Development and Donors is a collection of essays written by Dr. Devendra Raj Panday over a span of almost 27 years on the topic of development, foreign aid and donors. Despite, or perhaps because of the many avatars that the author has taken over this period – Nepal’s head of the foreign aid division and finance secretary in the 1970s. finance minister in the first post 1990 interim democratic government, development specialist and a leading figure in civil society today – the essays display a remarkable consistency. His writing offer penetrating critiques of changes in the development world and their effects on Nepal.