PowerPoint Presentation Economic Growth and development in Southeast Asia

Trends in ODA, 1960-2008 (OECD DAC)

http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/documentupload/MeasuringAid50yearsDACStats.pdf

DAC members total net resource flows to developing countries 1970-2009 (OECD DAC)

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The distribution of ODA receipts from DAC countries 1978/9-2008/9

The geographic distribution of aid responds to changing needs as well as to changing political imperatives.

Note reduction in aid flows to East Asia and Pacific countries as well as to South Asia, coupled with sharp increase to sub-Saharan Africa.

Rise in aid to Europe and Central Asia reflects the emerging global financial crisis in 2008-9.

Aid allocation based on income classifications 1960-2009

From Easterly and Williamson, 2011, Figure 9

ODA has increased in sub-Saharan Africa, low income countries more broadly (2012)

	2012 Net ODA ($ millions)	2012 ODA/capita	2012 ODA as % of GNI
Subsaharan Africa	46,274	51	3.1
South Asia	14,171	9	0.6
East Asia and Pacific	8,796	4	0.1
Europe and Central Asia	9,970	37	0.5
Middle East and North Africa	13,894	41	na
Latin American and Caribbean	10,091	17	0.2
Low Income	39,333	47	7
Low-middle Income	38,964	15	0.8
upper-middle Income	15,595	7	0.1

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