Aid and Political Conditionality

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Aid and Political Conditionality is written by Olav Stokke and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1136304207 (ISBN 10) and 9781136304200 (ISBN 13).

Foreign aid has increasingly become subject to political conditionality. In the 1980s some institutions made aid dependent upon the recipient countries' economic policy reforms. Market liberalisation was the primary instrument and objective. In the 1990s such conditionality was brought one step further; aid was now linked to political reforms, affecting recipient countries' governing systems, requiring democracy, human rights and 'good governance'. This volume looks at these developments and considers the conditionality policies of several European aid donors. Such policies are also considered from recipient perspectives, both from the Third World and Russia, and the issue is also considered from a historical perspective.