Arab-Related Bilateral and Multilateral Sources of Development Finance: Issues, Trends, and the Way Forward

aid, official development assistance, Arab agencies, Development Assistance Committee

Making development co-operation fit for the future: a survey of partner countries

This paper provides insights into what partner country governments anticipate will be their main development challenges within five to ten years, and into how they expect their relationships with Development Assistance Committee development assistance providers to evolve in order to meet these challenges Abstract Based on results from an OECD-commissioned survey of 40 developing country governments, the paper finds that demand for development co-operation will remain strong given the economic and environmental challenges that lie ahead. However, the countries surveyed expect Development Assistance Committee (DAC) providers to shift to a more enabling role in the coming years: providing vital finance, but in support of government-led sector programmes; delivering more and better technical and policy support; and leveraging more private finance. This paper will inform the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate’s ‘Agency of the Future’ project, which seeks to identify how DAC members’ development administrations will need to adapt in order to be fit for purpose in a rapidly changing world

Ignoring the elephant in the room? Assessing the impact of the European Union on the Development Assistance Committee's role in international development

This article studies the impact of the European Union (EU) on the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). While the literature thus far has focused on the external challenges for the DAC's role in international development, this study argues that the EU should be taken into account as well. By focusing on the cases of policy coherence for development and the concessionality of official development assistance (ODA) loans, we show that the EU poses a structural challenge for the DAC's role in international development given the strong overlap in membership between both institutions and the Union's changing nature as a development actor

The Marianas Covenant Negotiations

In September 1969, the United States and the Congress of Micronesia\u27s Joint Committee on Future Status began their negotiations. This article will examine the negotiations which commenced in December 1972 and will concentrate on the three areas which were central points of discussion: the political relationships between the United States and the Northern Marianas; issues of economic development and assistance; and problems of land policy

The Marianas Covenant Negotiations

In September 1969, the United States and the Congress of Micronesia\u27s Joint Committee on Future Status began their negotiations. This article will examine the negotiations which commenced in December 1972 and will concentrate on the three areas which were central points of discussion: the political relationships between the United States and the Northern Marianas; issues of economic development and assistance; and problems of land policy

United in diversity? Analysing behaviour expectations of the European Union as a non-state member of the OECD’s development assistance committee

The European Union (EU) frequently accentuates its position as the largest provider of Official Development Assistance (ODA). Together with the EU institutions, EU Member States represent 21 of the 30 members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) that sets out rules and standards for what can be reported as ODA. Following the EU Treaty’s requirement for the EU to work together in international organisations, research has detected a tentative yet positive trend to this end in different international organisations (IOs). This article’s empirical analysis shows no such trend can be detected in the EU’s engagement in the DAC. Explanatory factors include divergent development cooperation approaches inside the EU, discrepancies between the established image of and everyday practice in the DAC, and the EU’s full DAC membership. The findings add to the literature on international organisation governance by exploring different behaviour expectations of non-state membership vis-à-vis that of states

The Fragile Definition of State Fragility

We investigates the link between fragility and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa over a yearly panel including 28 countries for the 1999-2004 period. Beside the conventional definition of fragility adopted by the OECD Development Assistance Committee, we introduce the more severe definition of extreme fragility. We show that only the latter exerts a significantly negative impact on economic development, once standard economic, demographic, and institutional regressors are accounted for. As a by-product of this investigation we produce up-to-date evidence on the growth performance of the area. We find a tendency to convergence and no influence of geographic and historical factors.State fragility; growth; Africa; aid.

Resource Mobilization in the CGIAR: Toward a CGIAR Financial Strategy

Paper prepared for the Finance Committee by the CGIAR Secretariat on the development of financial strategies to implement IARC 1994-1998 medium term plans in the face of than harsher-than-expected funding constraints. The paper presents three possible courses of development the CGIAR System might take: scaling itself down or out, maintaining its current level of activities, or increasing its activities. It examines the financial requirements and necessary financial strategies entailed by each. Possible support from traditional foreign assistance donors, institutional donors, developing countries, foundations and the private sector are considered.The report proposes a broad strategy, and undertakes to spell out necessary steps in more detail if the Finance Committee approves the general direction. One proposal is for the creation of a high-level advisory panel.Agenda document at CGIAR International Centers Week, October 1993, as background to the report of the Finance Committee

Joint submission to the Portfolio Committee on Social Development on the Social Assistance Bill

Joint submission by the Children's Institute and the Black Sash on behalf of a number of organisations, 18 September 2003

Aid Effort and Its Determinants: A Comparison of the Italian Performance with other OECD Donors

this paper aims at contributing to a better understanding of the determinants of aid effort by donor countries, a topic that has been rather under researched in the vast economic literature on development aid. We conduct an econometric analysis on panel data that refer to the 22 member countries of the OECD Development Assistance Committee over the 1970 2004 period; the estimates are then used as a benchmark against which we assess to what extent the poor Italian aid performance can be traced back to its specific macroeconomic, structural and institutional characteristics. The analysis suggests that these factors – that are found to significantly influence aid effort – fall short of explaining the limited amount of fiscal resources that Italy devotes to international aid. Even when its specific characteristics are accounted for, Italy is found to be lagging behind the OECD norm, so that the analysis challenges the claims that the limited Italian aid effort is due to binding fiscal constraints.foreign aid, fiscal expenditures, economic development