13-April-2023
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Official development assistance (ODA) is defined by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) as government aid that promotes and specifically targets the economic development and welfare of developing countries. The DAC adopted ODA as the “gold standard” of foreign aid in 1969 and it remains the main source of financing for development aid.
12-April-2023
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Because ODA is a scarce resource for financing development, it is important to ensure it reaches the countries and people that need it most.
16-March-2023
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The OECD DAC recommendation on Untying Aid reinforces that developing countries need the responsibility for procurement. The private sector needs to compete for aid-funded contracts. To this end, a list of official development assistance contract opportunities is available on line.
7-March-2023
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Data on DAC members’ aid targeting gender equality and women’s empowerment are compiled with the help of the gender equality marker in the Creditor Reporting System (CRS).
7-October-2022
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Frequently asked questions: the modernisation of official development assistance (ODA)
29-March-2022
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The DAC has measured resource flows to developing countries since 1961. Special attention has been given to the official and concessional part of this flow, defined as “official development assistance” (ODA). The DAC first defined ODA in 1969, and tightened the definition in 1972. ODA is the key measure used in practically all aid targets and assessments of aid performance.
21-June-2021
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This paper gives an overview of debt in small island developing states (SIDS). It provides an analysis of liquidity and solvency problems faced by SIDS and introduces a quantitative estimation of hidden (or off-the-radar) Chinese overseas loans.
21-May-2021
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12-May-2021
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Providers of development co-operation decide individually which countries to assist and to what extent. As a consequence, the global development co-operation landscape is increasingly proliferated. The resulting imbalances can impair the effectiveness of aid through aid fragmentation as well as accumulation of providers in some countries – so called “darlings” – and gaps in aid provision in others – commonly known as “orphans”.
12-April-2021
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This glossary includes key terms and concepts used in DAC Statistics.