by Reality of Aid | Sep 28, 2021 | Development Finance, Events and Meetings, International Finance Institutions, News, Uncategorized
Development Policy Financing is a lending instrument that supports targeted policy reforms and provides finance directly to a borrowing country’s general budget. DPF nudges countries towards neoliberal, financialisation reforms by conditioning budget support on the...
by Reality of Aid | Sep 28, 2021 | Development Finance, Events and Meetings, International Finance Institutions, News
Multiple crises caused by COVID-19 have created an unprecedented global shock. The WBG released a framework for supporting green, resilient and inclusive development (GRID), which emphasizes ‘private sector solutions’—akin to its previous Maximising Finance for...
by Reality of Aid | Mar 25, 2021 | Agenda 2030, DAC-CSO Reference Group, Development Cooperation, Development Effectiveness, Development Finance, ODA, OECD-DAC, RoA Global
Reality of Aid Network Statement on the OECD Development Cooperation Report 2020 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) annual report on development cooperation for 2020 takes stock of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and proposes...
by Reality of Aid | Mar 11, 2021 | Development Cooperation, Development Finance, International Finance Institutions, RoA Global
On November 5th 2020, the British government announced that it would spend only 0.5% of its Gross National Income (GNI) on Official Development Assistance (ODA) – a huge departure from the legally mandated and internationally agreed target of 0.7%.[1] In a separate...
by Reality of Aid | Jun 30, 2020 | Aid Talks, Development Cooperation, Development Finance, ODA, RoA Asia Pacific
Developing countries in Asia Pacific are trapped in the vicious cycle of debt. To say that the region is in distress or is in crisis is an understatement, and for decades, developing countries have been spending more of their revenues to pay their dues at...
by Reality of Aid | Apr 28, 2020 | Development Cooperation, Development Finance, Highlights, ODA, OECD-DAC, RoA Global
Statement of the RoA International Coordinating Committee | 23 April 2020 (Download Statement with Spanish version) The recently published preliminary ODA data of 2019 show that aid spending by DAC members totaled USD 152.8 billion representing a slight real term...
