European Report on Development

Tuesday, 15 February 2011 15:02

Supported by the European Commission and seven Member States, the European Report on Development (ERD) is published annually. This year, the ERD covers ‘social protection for inclusive development’ in Sub-Saharan Africa. Social protection in Africa includes topics as diverse as cash transfers, health insurance, old age pensions, disability, unemployment benefits, and more. The ERD are keen to hear views on the report from civil society, so please make a contribution at the website: http://www.erd-blog.eu/about      

Polish aid and EC spring package 2010

Thursday, 20 May 2010 09:26

A chance for new solidarity

The Institute of Global Responsibility has conducted a simple analysis of the European Commission’s Spring Package in the context of Polish aid. The analysis is also useful to those countries where ODA faces similar problems to Polish ODA.

 

Read the analysis here

     

Official Development Assistance 2009: Poverty on the up as EU aid falls

Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:00

The figures on official development assistance (ODA) in 2009, published today by the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee, paint a bleak picture. In a year marked by severe world economic crisis, ODA, generally acknowledged as the essential tool to fight poverty, stagnated. Contrary to the EU’s overtly repeated commitment to scale-up aid, EU ODA fell. Just one year ahead of the deadline set for reaching EU aid targets, prospects are quickly diminishing that the EU will reach their collective commitment to deliver 0.56% ODA/GNI by 2010.

     

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Missing the targets: EU aid falls short of promises

Tuesday, 16 February 2010 18:00

 

Aid pledges made by donors for 2010 fall short of the promises made five years ago, the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) reported in an extraordinary announcement today. In 2005, major donors committed to increasing annual official development assistance by US$ 48bn by 2010, compared to 2004 levels. The lion’s share was supposed to be contributed by the EU member states. But the calculations published today (February 17) by the DAC indicate that only US$ 27bn of the extra funds promised to fight poverty will actually be made available – amounting to a shortfall of US$ 21bn.

     

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