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| What were we saying in Reality of Aid 1998/99 |
Here are some of the things we were saying about the aid environment in 1998/1999:
- if policies were programmes and promises were dollars, the Reality of Aid could report great progress on the road to eradicating global poverty this year – achieving the target to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015 as set out in the OECD's strategy paper, Shaping the 21st Century will need concrete steps
- debt burden is still compromising the ability of developing countries to address the basic needs of their populations, so OECD country strategies on poverty need to incorporate more substantial debt reduction
- the proportion of aid tying has declined but remains a significant factor affecting the quality and impact of development assistance
- lack of political commitment to coordination is a major obstacle to the effective use of aid resources – the increasing use of sector wide approaches means some positive progress in this area
- some progress has been made towards reducing fragmentation in the management of aid resources.
Overview: aid trends
Read Targeting the end of absolute poverty: trends in development cooperation
| What was different about this issue? |
The special focus of Reality of Aid 1998/1999 was basic education and its role in development cooperation and poverty elimination.
This issue – with its ten chapters offering analysis from a southern perspective – marked the start of more intense efforts to achieve balanced participation between northern and southern NGOs on an individual basis and through networks.
External links
Visit the Reality of Aid project site – Reality of Aid reports since 2002 – Reality Checks since 2002
Visit the Global Humanitarian Assistance site – our independent project to monitors aid flows
| Aid at a glance |
In 1997, the 21 OECD donors gave:
- US$ 47 580 million
- 0.22% of their total GNP
- 1.4% of combined total government expenditure
- US$58 per person.
Is it going up or down?
- Aid fell by US$7858 million, a real terms decline of 7.1%
- Ten donors reduced the proportion of GNP allocated to development assistance and eight donors increased it
- Private flows amounted to US$206 billion, a decrease of US$80 billion over 1996, but still nearly over four times the volume of ODA.
What proportion of bilateral aid goes to basic education and basic health?
In 1996:
- 16 DAC donors reported their spending on basic education – giving an average of 1.4% of ODA
- 15 DAC donors reported their spending on basic health – giving an average of 2.4%.
How much goes to the poorest countries?
- 49.7% of DAC ODA was spent in countries with an annual per capita income of US$2 a day.
How much OECD aid is tied to purchases from the donor country?
- 17.7% of DAC bilateral aid is given on the condition it is used only to purchase goods and services from the donor country (excluding technical cooperation).
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