Publication

Jun 2014

This paper reviews the way Official Development Assistance (ODA) has been defined by the Development Assistance Committee. After a brief overview of the controversies surrounding which forms of external development finance can be categorized as ODA, the author proposes a plan for reforming the definition.

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Author David Roodman
Series CGD Policy Papers
Issue 44
Publisher Center for Global Development (CGD)
Copyright © 2014 Center for Global Development (CGD). This work is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 license
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