Growth is not enough

Brazil’s labour leaders have long argued against pursuing economic growth for its own sake. What matters most, they believe, is not the size of the economic pie but how it’s carved up. In recent years, calls for social justice have increasingly informed policy in Brazil, bringing about a veritable “revolution” in the economy.

Africa and Public Debt Management

Sound debt management allows African policymakers to develop local-currency bond markets, integrate into a worldwide network of debt managers, and to enhance awareness of advances in Africa among policymakers, investors and others outside the continent.

Aid to the Health and Population Policies/Programmes and Reproductive Health sectors

The OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) collects aid flows at activity level based on a standard methodology and agreed definitions. Aid to Health is covered by two main sectors; 1.Aid to Health - General and Basic Health, and, 2. Population Policies/Programmes and Reproductive Health - includes HIV/AIDS.

Australia - DAC Peer Review of Development Co-operation

Australia is the eighth most generous donor in the OECD's Development Assistance Committee, delivering USD 5.44 billion in ODA last year, or 0.36% of its gross national income.

International Development Statistics (IDS) online databases on aid and other resource flows

The International Development Statistics databases cover bilateral and multilateral donors’ aid and other resource flows to developing countries in two separate databases: 1. The DAC annual aggregates database, which provides comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows; 2. The Creditor Reporting System (CRS), which provides detailed information on individual aid activities, such as sectors,

Related Documents

• Data cycle of Aid Statistics
• Information note about International Development Statistics online (IDS/o)
• Aid statistics - data and databases

Asia’s Challenges

The forces driving Asia’s rapid growth–new technology, globalisation, and market-oriented reform–are also fuelling rising inequality. Some income divergence is inevitable in times of fast economic development, but that shouldn’t make for complacency, especially in the face of rising inequality in people’s opportunities to develop their human capital and income-earning capacity.

Innovative responses to fragility: The promise of modern technology

A global, political push for poverty eradication through the post-2015 framework is likely to benefit from parallel bottom-up social innovation and mobilization. Modern technology can be a real game changer in this regard.

Workshop on Evaluating Support to Private Sector Development

This day-long workshop will bring together the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) and the OECD DAC Network on Development Evaluation, along with other key actors and development finance institutions, to share experiences on evaluating private sector-oriented development co-operation.

Written Statement to the Joint IMF-World Bank Development Committee - April 2013

The OECD is calling for a new development framework in this statement to the Joint IMF-World Bank Development Committee.

Also Available

• Written Statement to the International Monetary and Financial Committee - April 2013
• Written Statement to the International Monetary and Financial Committee - April 2013

Statistics on resource flows to developing countries

See the latest OECD statistics that show how much aid donor country governments are giving, and to whom. How much goes to the poorest countries? How much to multilateral organisations like the United Nations? Which sectors get the most aid - economic infrastructure or social programmes? These statistics show the first evidence of scaling up aid as promised by donors recently.

Related Documents

• Reference DAC Statistical Tables
• DAC List of ODA Recipients used for 2008, 2009 and 2010 flows
• Aid statistics and databases: All about numbers - who spends what, where?