A
brief note to put on record five good examples of commitment to international
development assistance. In 2014 the following countries’ financial
contributions to development assistance exceeded the agreed threshold of 0.7%
of their GDP: United Kingdom, Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway and Sweden. Sweden,
it should be added, was particularly generous. Its financial assistance to
development programmes and projects reached 1.1% of its GDP.
These
countries and 23 more make the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the
OECD. The average contribution of the DAC countries to development, also in
2014, remained well below the target – the 0.7% figure – at a mere 0.29% of
GDP.
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