"And we have always kept a close eye on our bilateral aid."

This bilateral aid is only a small part of the assistance the Administration hopes to provide.

We are already the biggest bilateral aid donor, with £185 million committed for the next four years.

Britain gave almost £70 million of bilateral aid to Uganda last year.

Traditional responses like more bilateral aid, they argued, were inadequate.

Eighty per cent of our bilateral aid goes to the poorest countries.

Admittedly, it is good to have moved from bilateral aid to a global, multilateral approach.

Pakistan also receives bilateral aid from developed and oil-rich countries.

The rest goes to bilateral aid (about $11 billion), contributions to multilateral organizations and food assistance.

Choices are also made based on bilateral aid.

"Some donors had already been withholding bilateral aid because of their concern about the situation," a British official said."

Britain is the biggest bilateral aid donor to Burma.

Advocating for an improvement in the delivery of European bilateral aid including:

Should we be using multilateral aid or bilateral aid?

As a result, the country received little in the way of bilateral aid from these countries and various forms of trade sanction were imposed.

Donor countries had partly held back bilateral aid, he said, because "the government of Haiti has to be able to administer that resource".

Administration officials also said aid through the fund provides "more clout" and "international discipline" than bilateral aid.

Only 6% of bilateral aid for recovery projects, for example, was channelled through Haitian institutions.

The rapporteur also involves himself in other strictly national matters, such as the monitoring and supervision of bilateral aid.

In 1973, a quarter of the bilateral aid went to military or strategic purposes; now two-thirds goes for those purposes.

Much maintenance and repair is dependent on bilateral aid or is done piecemeal.

I strongly support multilateral aid backed up by bilateral aid where it can complement a project.

This indicates that there has been off-budget financing of about 26% of total bilateral aid in the past five years.

We have pledged more than £80 million in bilateral aid to Russia and other republics of the former Soviet Union.

Perhaps most surprisingly, nearly half of Polish bilateral aid in 2010 (47%) went to China, largely due to a loan agreement between the two countries.