The linkage of development aid to the promotion of human rights, democracy and good governance was a striking departure in the post-cold war foreign policies of

A new lens on development is changing the world of international aid. The overdue recognition that development in all sectors is an inherently political process

Economic aid to developing countries is an important -- and often controversial -- part of foreign policy for many Western nations. But how effective is such ai

Finally, when the country enters the second generation of reforms, such as public sector institutional reform, short-term, conditionality-based aid can once aga

Foreign aid has increasingly become subject to political conditionality. In the 1980s some institutions made aid dependent upon the recipient countries' economi