Abstract
The paper examines aid allocation policies of bilateral donors. Covering the historical as well as contemporary international aid regime during both the Cold War and post-Cold War periods, the paper explores that bilateral aid donors have continued to pursue their geo-strategic, security, political, trade and economic interests while providing aid to developing countries across the globe. Based on the review of vast literature covering different time periods, aid allocation criteria of different bilateral aid donors are also compared and contrasted to find the extent to which donors differ on the basis of their aid allocation trends and policies. Research reveals that all bilateral donors are not motivated solely by self-interest. There are certain donors whose foreign aid policies are largely apolitical and are mostly guided by humanitarian considerations. Donors such as Canada, the Netherlands and the Nordic Countries (Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland) are distinct from larger donors (US, UK, Japan, France and Germany) on account of their aid policies which are more philanthropic and development-driven. The study concludes that despite consistent and sustained efforts of the organisations like the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) to reform the policy and practice of aid giving at the international level, the provision of aid is still motivated more by donors’ own objectives rather than humanitarian considerations and developmental pursuits of aid recipients.
Murad Ali, , Glenn Banks, Nigel Parsons. (2015) Why Donors Give Aid and to Whom? A Critique of the Historical and Contemporary Aid Allocation Regime, The Dialogue, Volume 10, Issue 2.
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