Selectivity and good governance in the United Kingdom, Denmark and the European Union

Chapters 3-5 discussed a series of cases where selectivity mechanisms for aid allocation had been introduced over the last decade. Although the instruments applied by the World Bank, the Netherlands and the United States were shown to be quite different, the common element of all three approaches was the belief that the effectiveness of development assistance would be enhanced if a substantial part of aid funds were to be allocated to developing countries that had introduced good policies and institutions (‘good governance’).