Overseas Development Assistance
Record aid spending hides a fall in assistance for Africa “back to levels of a decade ago”
Oxfam today celebrated news that donors had increased their development aid spending to $134.8 billion in 2013, which the OECD says stands at the highest-ever recorded level. However aid levels to Africa dropped by 5.6% to just $28.9 billion – back to the levels they were 10 years ago.
Rich countries’ failed commitments deprive poor of $18bn

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