6.9 Distribution of net aid by Development Assistance Committee countries See Table 6.9 here

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The data here show net bilateral aid to low- and middle-income economies from members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Aid to countries and territories not shown in the table has been assigned to regional totals based on the World Bank’s regional classification system. Aid to unspecified economies within a region has been included in regional totals, but not in totals for income groups. Aid not allocated by country or region (including administrative costs, research into development issues, and aid to nongovernmental organizations) is included in the world total; regional and income group totals therefore do not add up to the world total.

Because these data are based on donor country reports of bilateral programs, they cannot be reconciled with recipient country reports, nor do they reflect the full extent of aid flows from the reporting donor country or to recipient countries. A full accounting would include donor country contributions to multilateral institutions and the flow of resources from multilateral institutions to recipient countries as well as flows from countries that are not members of DAC. In addition, the expenditures countries report as official development assistance (ODA) have changed. Recently, for example, some DAC countries providing aid to refugees within their own borders have reported these expenditures as ODA.

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• Net aid comprises net bilateral ODA to part I recipients and net bilateral official aid to part II recipients.

• Other DAC donors are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland.

Data on aid are compiled by DAC and published in its annual statistical report, Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows to Aid Recipients, and in the DAC chairman’s report, Development Co-operation. The OECD also makes its data available on diskette and magnetic tape and on the Internet.

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