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

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

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

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

The top twenty countries that received bilateral aid in 2010/11 are:

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

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

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

All we offered to each Mediterranean third country was a series of trade concessions and an amount of bilateral financial aid.

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