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AbstractThis article describes how aid‐influence mechanisms previously identified by academic literature (aid conditionality, tied aid, consultants, people‐to‐people exchanges and the support of like‐minded donors) are triggered in a selection of six aid projects implemented by Spain and Germany and involving the EU in Senegal, in the domains of gender equity and migration control. Aid‐influence nexuses might prove ineffective if there is a lack of political will on the part of the partner, an insufficient involvement of its Administration or local actors, a mis‐selection of people involved in the aid‐influence link, or if the scale of the project is too small.

This article analyses the motives behind the relations between Spain as a donor and Vietnam as a recipient of international aid. The main hypothesis is that this relationship does not respond to the traditional causes for international aid, as identified by the academic literature. On the basis of qualitative data collected in interviews with elites, the article suggests instead that a 'learning factor' and an 'image factor' might be at play in the Spanish presence, as well as herd behaviour on the part of the donor community.

The politics of aid from the perspective of international relations theories / Bernabé Malacalza -- Foreign aid's motivations : theoretical arguments and empirical evidence / Gino N. Pauselli -- The U.S. elite consensus on aid / Henry de Cazotte -- The UK : an aid superpower at a crossroads / Myles Wickstead -- The Scandinavians : aid policy determinants and performances / Olav Stokke -- Japanese development assistance : economic and political win-win proposals / Marie Söderberg -- Spain : the rise and fall of a compliant donor / Iliana Olivié and Aitor Pérez -- While the cat's away, will the mice play? : government-NGO relations and the politics of aid in Hungary / Krisztina Szabó, Balázs Szent-Iványi and András Tétényi -- Brazilian cooperation policy : promotion of development and global projection / Guillermo Santander -- Solidarity and security in the EU discourse on aid / Iliana Olivié and Aitor Pérez -- Donorship in a state of flux / Nilima Gulrajani, and Liam Swiss -- The international politics of aid : "good governance" and democracy promotion / David Williams -- Gender inequality, aid agencies, and global norms / Lars Engberg-Pedersen -- Old and new powers in development assistance in health / Eduardo Missoni and Fabrizio Tediosi -- "We first" and the anti-foreign aid narratives of populist radical-right parties in Europe / Margarita Gómez-Reino.

Despite considerable debate on the normative foundations of Chinese international development cooperation and how they compare with those of traditional donors,positivist studies on the normative consequences of China's socialization into mainstream international norms of development assistance are scarce. This article explores this topic for the case of Ethiopia, an aid 'darling' with an extended presence of Chinese and Western development actors, taking the Aid Effectiveness Agenda as reference. Resorting to official documents, data analysis, and semi-structured interviews, the authors find that Chinese development actors' understanding of ownership and transparency is relatively stable and different from that of Western donors and that they promote their own understanding of those principles among Ethiopian stakeholders. There are, however, significant changes in inclusive partnerships and the focus on results, that have more to do with a pragmatic adaptation process by Chinese actors than with a socialization process through their interaction with traditional donors. (J Contemp China/GIGA)

Como donante de ayuda al desarrollo, la Unión Europea es la suma de las instituciones europeas y cada uno de los Estados miembro. Como tal, los objetivos, motivos y prioridades de su política de cooperación al desarrollo son diversos, y evolucionan con la realidad cambiante que rodea a la Unión. Acorde con la agenda global de desarrollo, la ayuda de la UE se ha alineado con los principios del desarrollo humano y, posteriormente, sostenible. Sin embargo, estos paradigmas han interactuado también con una creciente presencia de objetivos geopolíticos en la ayuda, que se han reflejado además en sus prioridades geográficas (con un mayor foco en la vecindad europea) y sectoriales. Paralelamente, se ha reforzado el énfasis en los principios de eficacia y coherencia, a lo que se ha tratado de dar respuesta con medidas que profundicen la integración europea. Todas estas tendencias se han visto reflejadas en la evolución de los instrumentos europeos para la cooperación, varios de los cuales se han fusionado recientemente en el Instrumento de Vecindad, Desarrollo y Cooperación Internacional.

Among the consequences of the emergence of new regional powers to global is, first, the emergence, consolidation or strengthening of new donors and, secondly, changing map of development and global poverty. It is in this new context in which new development agenda -the post-2015- will be configured, which will come to replace, and old, Millennium Development Goals. This article discusses the current state of the gestation of this post-MDG one year of approval schedule and considering that the debate on its content and government is still open. Specifically, it discusses the growing importance of inequality as part of the global development agenda and details on the possible future governance system of international cooperation which, as of today, struggling UN and OECD. ; Entre las consecuencias de la emergencia de nuevos poderes regionales a globales está, por una parte, la aparición, consolidación o fortalecimiento de nuevos donantes y, por otra, el cambio del mapa del desarrollo y la pobreza mundiales. Es en este nuevo contexto en el que tiene que configurarse la nueva agenda del desarrollo -la agenda post2015- que vendrá a remplazar los, ya viejos, Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio. Este artículo expone el estado actual de la gestación de esta agenda post-ODM a un año de su aprobación y teniendo en cuenta que el debate sobre sus contenidos y gobierno aún está abierto. Concretamente, se analiza la creciente importancia de las desigualdades como elemento de la agenda de desarrollo global y se pormenorizan los detalles sobre el eventual gobierno del futuro sistema de cooperación internacional por el que, a fecha de hoy, pugnan las Naciones Unidas y la OCDE.

Lack of coordination among donors poses several problems: it results in higher administrative costs for both donors and partner countries and weakens aid effectiveness. This rationale is the basis for the OECD and EU political agendas on harmonization and coordination, which has resulted in different coordination initiatives at both headquarters and field levels. However, despite the political agenda, recent studies show that for many donors and partner countries aid fragmentation has prevailed or even increased. By means of a country case study in Morocco, this document explores the obstacles to aid coordination in a specific EU development partner country. Coordination initiatives may have proliferated but not necessarily triggered results in terms of joint work or donors' specialization. The main obstacles to coordination include varied administrative procedures; diverse administrative architectures; resistance from local authorities and also from leading donors (to abandon or share flagship aid programmes).