Introduction

Abstract

Since the end of the Cold War, there has been a marked shift in the political motivations underlying the conduct of international aid relations between industrialised and developing countries (Clay et al., 2009). Whereas some donors have retained a security-related or commercially driven rationale for the provision of Official Development Assistance (ODA), a growing number of OECD states have reoriented their development policies with a view to combating poverty and strengthening governance in the Third World (Lammersen, 2001: 23; OECD, 2008b).