Lastly, another way of ensuring that financial imperialism prevails in poorer countries is through aid. Unlike loans aid would appear to come with no strings attached. Aid, however, is not usually given without something in return. Quite often a country such as Britain might give aid to a specific country but only if it agrees to buy certain British products. There are examples of countries that have been lent money only to have to spend most of it on useless military equipment.
Aid can also be something akin to a bribe.
America during the 1980's give huge sums of money to various regimes, usually because of their anti-Communist stance, but the result was that much of the money went strainght into the pockets of various political leaders. Sometimes the multi-nationals involved will directly bribe politicians in order that their interests are protected.