Bilaterale und Multilaterale Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (Bilateral and Multilateral Development Cooperation)

Against the background of a longstanding discussion of advantages of bilateral and multilateral aid approaches the paper discusses mainly two aspects: (i) The distinction between bilateral and multilateral development cooperation is in practice often not clear. In particular, the EU aid approach differs from multilateral aid. (ii) The partner countries' and aid effectiveness perspective is most important when it comes to an assessment of advantages and disadvantages of bilateral and multilateral aid approaches