This edited volume provides an assessment of an increasingly fragmented aid system. Development cooperation is fundamentally changing its character in the wake of global economic and political transformations and an ongoing debate about what constitutes, and how best to achieve, global...

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...