Net bilateral aid flows from the Netherlands to official development assistance recipients, measured in current US dollars. The data tracks net disbursements, which are gross grants and loans minus principal repayments, as reported by the World Bank's World Development Indicators. It covers contributions from the Netherlands as a member of the Development Assistance Committee.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in the Netherlands' annual net aid disbursement values over time.
- Compare the Netherlands' bilateral aid contributions with other DAC donor countries listed in the metadata.
- Model the relationship between aid flows and economic indicators in recipient countries using the monetary value data.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from the authoritative Development Assistance Committee reporting system.
- Values are standardized in current U.S. dollars for cross-year comparison.
Limitations
- Data on official aid to Part II recipient countries ended in 2004, creating a temporal break.
- Regional and world aggregates include aid not allocated by country, limiting granular analysis for some entries.
Provenance
- Source
- World Development Indicators, World Bank.
- Collection Method
- Reported net disbursements of official development assistance from DAC member countries.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Flows from the Netherlands to countries and territories on the DAC ODA recipient list.