An aid agency is an organisation dedicated to distributing aid. Many professional aid organisations exist, both within government (e.g. AusAID, USAID, DFID, EuropeAid, ECHO), between governments as multilateral donors (e.g. UNDP) and as private voluntary organizations (or non-governmental organisations, (e.g. ActionAid, Oxfam, World Vision). The International Committee of the Red Cross is unique in being mandated by international treaty to uphold the Geneva Conventions.

Aid can be subdivided into two categories: humanitarian aid (emergency relief efforts, e.g. in response to natural disasters), and development aid (or foreign aid), aimed at helping countries to achieve long-term sustainable economic growth, with the aim of achieving poverty reduction. Some aid agencies carry out both kinds of aid (e.g. EcoCARE Pacific Trust and ADRA), whilst others specialise (e.g. Red Cross, humanitarian aid; War on Want, development aid).

See also[link]

• List of development aid agencies

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Richard Charles Cobb (1917 – 15 January 1996, aged 78) was a British historian. He became Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, after an initially unconventional academic career in which he spent a dozen years working as an independent scholar in French archives. His work was recognised in France by the award of membership in the Legion d'Honneur. He is known for his work on the background to the French Revolution, and for his autobiographical writings.^[1][2][3]

Principal works[link]

• The People's Armies (1961) – First published in France as Les armées révolutionnaires; instrument de la terreur dans les départements, avril 1793-floréal An 2.; first English edition, 1987.
• Terreur et subsistances, 1783-1795 (1965)
• A Second Identity: Essays on France and French History (1969)
• The Police and the People: French Popular Protest, 1789-1820 (1970)
• Reactions to the French Revolution (1972)
• Paris and its provinces, 1792-1802 (1975)
• A Sense of Place (1975)
• A Classical Education (1975)
• Raymond Queneau (1976)
• Tour De France (1976)
• Death in Paris, 1795-1801 (1978)
• The Streets of Paris (1979)
• Promenades. A Historian's Appreciation of Modern French Literature (1980)
• French and Germans, Germans and French. A personal interpretation of France under two occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944 (1983)
• Still Life: Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood (1983) - winner of the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography
• People and Places (1985)
• Something to Hold on to: autobiographical sketches (1988)

Posthumous publications[link]

• The End of the Line: a memoir (1997)
• Paris and Elsewhere: selected writings (1998)
• Marseille (2001)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Works by or about Richard Cobb in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Cobb author page and archive from The New York Review of Books

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