After World War II, Ethiopia began to receive economic development aid from the more affluent Western countries.
[2] Sweden trained the Imperial Bodyguard and India at one point contributed the majority of foreign-born schoolteachers in the Ethiopian educational system.
In Ethiopia's case, the program aims to help stabilize the country's balance of payments and to free up funds for economic development.
In November 2007 the magazine The Economist reported that there was tangible evidence that the foreign aid given to Ethiopia reaches the people it is meant to, based on a visit to the south of the country.
Roads, schools and water systems are being built and "there are few complaints about corruption, a fact that continues to make Ethiopia popular with foreign donors".