The Architecture of Development Assistance
This book includes reports on Multilateral Aid, the Division of Labour and Aid Fragmentation, Aid Predictability to provide an overview of the key trends and developments in the architecture of aid.
General trends in multilateral aid
This chapter addresses recent trends in multilateral aid. The overriding trend is one of decline in aid volumes after the historic high of 2009. The picture in reality is more complex depending on whether aid is earmarked or not and the changing development landscape. The chapter then considers the five big groupings of multilateral organisations that account for the vast majority of aid. The final section discusses non-DAC donor multilateral aid, then concludes.