How to account for concessional loans in aid statistics?
Since 1972, the donors of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the OECD measure Official Development Assistance (ODA) to determine which expenditures are sufficiently development related to be considered as aid. While the definition has in the intervening decades come under close scrutiny and repeated criticism, it has only been marginally adapted. Recently however, the controversy about the ODA definition has heated up. The fact for instance that some donors have been able to include (download) |
D. Cassimon |
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