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S: OECD – https://www.oecd.org/dac/financing-sustainable-development/development-finance-standards/official-development-assistance.htm (last access: 30 June 2024); SDir – https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/bilateral-aid (last access: 30 June 2024).

N: – bilateral (adj): “having two sides,” 1775; see bi- “two” + lateral (adj.). Related: Bilaterally.

– aid (n): early 15c., aide, “war-time tax,” also “help, support, assistance,” from Old French aide, earlier aiudha “aid, help, assistance,” from Late Latin adiuta, noun use of fem. of adiutus, past participle of Latin adiuvare “to give help to,” from ad “to” (see ad-) + iuvare “to help, give strength, support, sustain,” which is from a PIE source perhaps related to the root of iuvenis “young person” (see young (adj.)).

2. Bilateral aid is assistance given by a government directly to the government of another country.

In 2013–2014, the Australian Government spent $5.031 billion on overseas aid.1 Bilateral aid is usually the largest share of a country’s total aid and is often influenced by strategic geo-political purposes as well as humanitarian ones. For example, in 2013-2014 the Australian Government provided over $1.062 billion to Papua New Guinea and Pacific island countries. Over the same period, only $243.8 million of Australian Government ODA was spent in Sub-Saharan Africa.

3. Economic Co-operation and Development; Diplomacy; Foreign Trade: Direct loans or grants to another government (Fortune, November 16, 1981).

S:1. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=bilateral+aid (last access: 30 June 2024). 2. WVI – https://www.worldvision.com.au/docs/default-source/school-resources/what-are-the-different-types-of-aid-(updated).pdf?sfvrsn=39ec3951_0 (last access: 30 June 2024). 3. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=BILATERAL+AID&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 30 June 2024).

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CR: multilateral aid