ABSTRACT
The organisational structures involved in Northern bilateral aid are highly variable, but the typical point of departure for comparative analyses of aid bureaucracies is the centralised agency that coordinates aid efforts abroad.1 The burgeoning scholarship on South-South development cooperation has noted a wide gamut of bureaucratic arrangements among providers, from China’s inter-agency foreign cooperation coordination mechanism (which includes some 30 ministries and institutions) to India’s establishment, within the Ministry of External Affairs, of an official agency for international development cooperation.2
