Net bilateral aid flows from Spain, a DAC donor, measured in current US dollars. The data covers official development assistance and official aid, consisting of concessional loans and grants minus loan repayments. It is compiled by the World Bank's World Development Indicators from reports by Development Assistance Committee members.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in Spain's annual net aid disbursements over time using the time-series values.
- Compare Spain's bilateral aid contributions against other DAC donors listed in the dataset description.
- Model the relationship between aid flows and recipient country economic indicators using the financial metric.
- Assess the composition of aid by examining the underlying components of grants and concessional loans described.
Strengths
- Data is sourced from the authoritative Development Assistance Committee (DAC) reporting system.
- Financial flows are standardized and reported in a consistent unit (current US dollars).
Limitations
- The dataset's temporal coverage and recency are unknown, potentially limiting analysis of recent trends.
- Sample size and specific row/column counts are unavailable, obscuring the dataset's granularity.
- Official aid data collection for Part II recipient countries ended in 2004, creating a historical break.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank World Development Indicators, based on reports from Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members.
- Collection Method
- Compiled from official donor reports of net disbursements of Official Development Assistance (ODA) and official aid.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Covers bilateral flows from Spain to countries and territories on the DAC list of ODA recipients.