World Bank data on bilateral official development assistance (ODA) commitments that are untied, measured in current US dollars. The dataset contains firm financial obligations from bilateral donors to recipient countries or multilateral organizations, where procurement is not restricted to the donor country. It is sourced from the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) as part of the Millennium Development Goals indicators.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in untied aid commitments over time using the year and commitment value columns.
- Compare untied ODA volumes between different donor or recipient countries using the country identifier fields.
- Model the relationship between untied aid commitments and other economic indicators using the financial value feature.
- Assess donor procurement policy changes by tracking the untied commitment amounts in the time-series data.
Strengths
- Data adheres to the standardized OECD DAC reporting methodology for international comparability.
- Records commitments as full expected transfer amounts, providing a complete picture of obligated aid.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage are not provided in the input.
- Data may exclude non-DAC donor commitments or informal aid arrangements.
Provenance
- Source
- OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
- Collection Method
- Reported by official bilateral donors as firm, funded obligations.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Global, covering bilateral donor and recipient countries.