"Development aid record"

Read the full report from the Development Section of the OECD Observer.

"On the assumption that OECD donors deliver on their various public statements since Monterrey in 2002, the latest simulation by OECD experts completed just before the September summit indicates that their Official Development Assistance (ODA) will increase by about $50 billion. This would take ODA from a little under $80 billion in 2004 to approaching $130 billion in 2010, with a doubling of aid for Africa. All of this amounts to the largest expansion in ODA as measured by the OECD since the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) was formed in 1960, even if at 0.36% of OECD DAC gross national income by 2010, it remains below the 0.50% achieved in the early years of the Committee’s existence."