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This paper discusses both altruistic and selfish donor motives during the period of 1999-2002. The authors find that poorer countries get clearly more aid from both bilateral and multilateral donors. Governance measured by the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) also turned out to be a major factor. If the CPIA is replaced by the Kaufmann index on institutional conditions in recipient countries, the authors only find a weak policy orientation of aid. Moreover, they find that multilateral aid is more poverty- and policy-oriented than bilateral aid. The authors stress that the importance of selfish aid motives differs between bilateral and multilateral donors.