Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 34 No. 111 Global Security or Poverty Eradication: EU Dev Assist

Abstract of Briefing

Title:	Global Security or Poverty Eradication: The Politics of the European Union's Development Assistance
Author:	Mikaela Gavas
Location:	Vol.34 No.111 (March 2007), pp186-193

Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, development co-operation and aid allocations have increasingly fallen under the shadow of the global 'war on terror'. Though aid has rarely been given without some element of self-interest on the part of donors, the end of the Cold War saw the logic of poverty reduction gradually begin to eclipse strategic and commercial concerns as the main worldwide determinant of aid allocation. Poverty reduction has come to be seen as a goal in and of itself, rather than a means to an end.

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