by Newsroom | Sep 28, 2012 | Financing for Development
Many EU countries show a fall in development aid budgets since 2011. According to figures released by the OECD earlier this year on 4th April 2012 many European countries made cuts in their aid programs to the developing world. For the first time since the...
by Newsroom | Sep 24, 2012 | Publications launch
The very first AidWatch style report was published in 2006. The briefing showed that €13.5 billion – or almost one third – of reported European ODA in 2005 did not provide any new aid for developing countries. This vast amount of apparent aid spending was in fact...
by Newsroom | Sep 24, 2012 | Publications launch
Many European governments are exaggerating their aid progress by inflating their aid figures with debt cancellations, particularly to Iraq and Nigeria. They are also chalking up as aid their spending within Europe on refugees and foreign students’ education. In...
by Newsroom | Sep 24, 2012 | Publications launch
2007 should instead have been a year of significant increases to meet the official targets. Yet there was a slight decline in the amount of European Official Development Assistance (ODA) and in ODA as a proportion of Europe’s economic output. Key findings Nine...
by Newsroom | Sep 21, 2012 | Publications launch
In 2008, Europe provided 0.40% of its gross national income (GNI) in aid. Although this is an increase of €4 billion, in reality, a further €20bn is necessary over the next two years in order to meet its targets. Current rises are clearly falling far short of what is...
