World Bank data on net bilateral aid flows from Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors and European Union institutions. It records net disbursements of official development assistance and official aid, measured in current U.S. dollars. The data is compiled by the World Bank's World Development Indicators team.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in net_aid_flows from specific donors like the United States or France over time.
- Compare aid contributions between DAC members such as Japan and Germany using donor country data.
- Model the relationship between aid flows and recipient country economic indicators using the ODA/official aid classifications.
- Assess the shift in aid reporting after the 2005 abolition of the DAC Part II list for official aid data.
Strengths
- Covers all current DAC member countries and European Union institutions.
- Distinguishes between Official Development Assistance (ODA) and official aid based on recipient classifications.
Limitations
- Data on official aid flows to Part II countries ended in 2004, creating a temporal gap.
- World and income group totals include aid not allocated by a specific country or region, reducing granularity.
- Specific row count, column details, and update frequency are not provided.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank, World Development Indicators.
- Collection Method
- Compiled from reports of net disbursements of grants and concessional loans from DAC donors and EU institutions.
- Time Range
- Time series includes data up to 2004 for official aid; ODA data likely continues.
- Freshness
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- Geography
- Global, covering flows from DAC donors and EU institutions to all recipient countries and territories.