EXTERNAL ACTION / Development

EU collectively provided nearly 60% of official assistance allocated by OECD countries in 2015

Brussels, 05/01/2017 (Agence Europe)

In 2015, the 30 member states of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) provided a total of $131.4 billion in official development assistance (ODA) – in other words, an average of 0.30% of their GNI and 6.6% more in real terms than in 2014.  This increase is nevertheless mainly due to the doubling of spending for refugee asylum seekers in Europe.  If this spending is excluded, net ODA rose by 1.3% in 2015.

The definitive figures on ODA flows were published by the OECD on...