ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on describing development policies in the East Central Europe (ECE) new donors and evaluating their policies along the lines of the few benchmarks. It provides an historical overview of the emergence of international development policies in ECE countries. The main conclusions arising from the chapter are that: the Global Consensus on Foreign Aid and its European interpretation have yet to have a major impact on the development policies of the ECE countries, but development policies in some of the countries, the Czech Republic and Slovenia, are more aligned to it than those of others, leading to a heterogenization of ECE development policies. The 2013 Aid Transparency Index generally ranks the ECE donors as poor or very poor in terms of transparency. There are some strong commonalities among the ECE donors in terms of their aid allocation, the two most important issues are their focus on the European neighborhood and Sub-Saharan Africa.
