Politics of Aid : Conditionalites and Challenges

This report critically analyzes the politics of aid, the aspects of political economy in relation to aid and conditionalities. The paper also discusses the reform agenda tied with aid such as economic reform, trade liberalization and privatization etc, which put negative impact over people’s life and livelihood. It delineates the politics of donors’ over aid to the developing countries and also describes the impact of aid conditions over Bangladesh’s economy.

This report can be used as an important campaign material against the neo-liberal economic hegemony and also against the bilateral and multilateral impositions that impede the development process of a country like Bangladesh. Any part of this paper can used, reproduced with a simple acknowledgement; it is available in Bengali and English.