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| What were we saying in Reality of Aid 1996? |
Here are some of the things we were saying about the aid environment in 1996:
- no clear link between the majority of aid spending and impact on absolute poverty
- several donors are addressing the way that spending is monitored in the context of aid objectives
- spending on basic health, education, water and sanitation makes a mockery of commitments to poverty
- aid needs to be managed to achieve local ownership and poverty eradication.
"We
must not accept that the poor will always be with us. The world has the
material and natural resources, the know-how and the people to make a
poverty-free world a reality"
James Gustave Speth, UNDP, January 1996
| Aid at a glance |
n 1994, the 21 OECD donors gave:
- US$ 59 192 million
- 0.30% of their total GNP
- 1.86% of combined total government expenditure
- US$73 per person.
What sort of thing is DAC aid spent on?
- Transport, communications and energy, 18.4%
- Education, health and population, 13.6%
- Debt relief, 10.2%
- Programme aid, 9.7%
- Emergency relief and food aid, 8.9%.
How much goes to the poorest countries?
In 1993/1994:
- 38.9% of aid went to low income countries (LICs)
- 24.2% went to least developed countries (LLDCs).
How much aid is tied to purchases from the donor country?
- 24.8% of DAC ODA is given on the condition that it is used to purchase goods and services from the donor country.
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