The donor's primary motives for giving aid is political rather than moral and humanitarian. Indeed countries like Turkey, Egypt, greek, ısrael are of geopolitical significance to the United Stateds and thus receive more aid than the normal. The political purposes have been to obtain strategic advantages and to cultivate the aspirations of the donor such as democracy and communism, among others. The termination of World War II. witnessed the gradual emergence of liberated nations who required assistance for progress. The United states also used aid extensively during the cold war to stop the spread of communism and reward friendly countries. It was opined that if developed countries like the United States do not help nations which are determined to develop economically, they will turn to Russia87.

The friendly countries are usually those which would help the U.S.A. to protect against the danger of the spread of communism. Soviet foreign aid was also similar the U.S.A. foreign aid.

Furthermore, as Todaro (1989) said, "the direction of total aid is not always given to the neediest countries. Less than half of bilateral development aid goes to the fourty six countries with the lowest incomes. Most aid based on political and military considerations goes to relatively well-off Third World countries" (Todaro, 1989, p.483).

Bilateral assistances are also often reflects political and military objectives (Thirlwall, 1989). Therefore, it can be said that especially the decision to grant aid to the another country is fundamentally a political decision. In other words, Economic aid from the powerful to the powerless countries is an instrument of power politics.