Net bilateral aid flows from Italy, a Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donor, measured in current US dollars. The data covers official development assistance (ODA) and official aid, representing net disbursements after loan repayments. It is compiled by the World Bank's World Development Indicators from DAC member reports.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in Italy's annual net aid disbursements over time to assess funding commitments.
- Compare Italy's bilateral aid volume against other DAC donors listed in the dataset description.
- Model the relationship between aid flows (the target metric) and recipient country economic indicators.
- Study the shift in data collection after 2004 due to the abolition of the DAC Part II recipient list.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from the authoritative Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donor reports.
- Financial flows are standardized in current U.S. dollars for cross-year comparison.
Limitations
- The dataset lacks visible row count, column details, and sample data for assessing scope.
- Official aid data collection for certain advanced countries ended in 2004, creating a temporal break.
- Regional and world aggregates include unallocated aid, which may obscure country-specific analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- World Development Indicators, compiled from Development Assistance Committee (DAC) member reports.
- Collection Method
- Aggregation of net disbursements (grants and concessional loans minus principal repayments) reported by DAC donors.
- Time Range
- Annual data, with a noted structural change in 2005 for official aid reporting.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Flows from Italy to countries and territories on the DAC lists of ODA and official aid recipients.