Net bilateral aid flows from Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors to Hungary, measured in current U.S. dollars. The data covers disbursements of official development assistance (ODA) and official aid, defined as grants and concessional loans minus principal repayments. It is compiled by the World Bank's World Development Indicators from DAC member reports, with official aid data collection ending in 2004.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in the net aid amount received by Hungary over time to assess dependency or impact.
- Model the relationship between aid flows from specific DAC donors like the United States or European Union Institutions and Hungarian economic indicators.
- Compare Hungary's aid receipts with other Part II DAC recipient countries using the time-series data.
- Study the effect of the 2005 policy change, which abolished the Part II recipient list, on recorded aid flows.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from the authoritative Development Assistance Committee (DAC), comprising 30 member donors.
- Provides a clear financial metric (net disbursements in current U.S. dollars) for consistent time-series analysis.
Limitations
- Official aid data for countries like Hungary is temporally stale, ending with 2004 records.
- The dataset likely lacks granular column details such as donor-specific breakdowns or aid purpose.
- Aggregate totals include aid not allocated by country, which may reduce precision for country-level analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- World Development Indicators, based on reports from Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members.
- Collection Method
- Compilation of net disbursements (grants and loans minus repayments) reported by DAC donors.
- Time Range
- Time-series ending in 2004 for official aid data to Part II countries like Hungary.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Hungary as the recipient country; donors are DAC members including nations and European Union Institutions.