Net bilateral aid flows represent disbursements of official development assistance and official aid from Development Assistance Committee members to New Zealand. Data is compiled by the World Bank's World Development Indicators team, tracking financial flows in current U.S. dollars. The dataset covers contributions from 30 DAC donors, including nations and European Union institutions.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in net aid disbursement values over time to identify peaks or declines in funding.
- Compare New Zealand's aid receipts against other nations using the DAC list of ODA recipients framework.
- Model the relationship between gross disbursements of grants and loans and subsequent repayments of principal.
- Assess the impact of the 2005 policy change that abolished Part II of the DAC recipient list on aid classification.
Strengths
- Covers financial flows from 30 official DAC donors, including major economies.
- Data is standardized in current U.S. dollars for consistent cross-temporal comparison.
Limitations
- Specific row count, time range, and update frequency are not provided.
- Data on official aid flows to Part II countries ended in 2004, creating a temporal break.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank World Development Indicators
- Collection Method
- Compiled from reports of net disbursements by DAC member countries.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
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- Geography
- Focus on New Zealand as recipient; donors are global DAC members.