ABSTRACT
The end of the cold war in the late 1980s had profound effects on international relations in the 1990s. Some of the basic framework conditions for North-South relations were altered, although more in the case of some donor governments than of others [Stokke, 1996]. In 1991, the High-level Meeting of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) called for greater coherence in the policies of industrialised countries vis-à-vis developing countries. This demand, followed up by the DAC during subsequent years, must be seen against the background of the international system transformation that has been taking place, although the need for better coordination in the aid policies of member governments has always been emphasised by the DAC.
