ABSTRACT
Britain has a long tradition of providing financial and technical assistance to countries now designated less developed and the size of its annual aid programme puts it among the leading Western donors.1 This chapter aims to provide a general picture of Britain’s aid policy towards Malawi, as a background to the more detailed examination of different aspects of that policy in later chapters. For comparative purposes it begins, however, with a brief consideration of Britain’s bilateral aid policy over the period since Malawi’s independence.
