Dollars, Dialogue and Development, An Evaluation of Swedish Programme Aid

Programme Aid is aid that is not intended to finance a specific project. Programme Aid consists of all contributions made available to a recepient country for general development purposes i.e. balance-of-payments support, general budget support and commodity assistance, not linked to specific project activities.

During the 1990s Sweden disbursed nearly 12 per cent of the total aid as programme aid. Over the past years there have been evaluations of  Swedish programme aid to a number of countries. But these have been on a country-by-country basis, lacked a common framework and have typically not addressed the central question of how programme aid supports policy change.

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Programme_Aid_bl_a_NIC_1999.pdf