Annual AidWatch report and the methodology of inflated aid
Each year, AidWatch produces an annual report looking at the performance of each European government, and the European Commission, on targets for aid quantity and quality.
In each report, we carry out an “inflated aid analysis”, which means we take the overall official aid figures produced for the previous year, and discount the amounts that governments spend on debt cancellation, refugees in European countries, and student costs in European countries. We discount these because we believe they are “non-aid items” which means that they are not “genuine aid”.
Why do we do this? We welcome spending by governments money on items like debt cancellation, but we discount this and student and refugee costs because there is no guarantee that money spent on these items will target poverty reduction, and because we do not think it is what the public understand as real aid, which their governments have promised to actively transfer to poor people in developing countries.
2009 will see the publication of the fourth annual AidWatch report, which is now awaited by many European governments and the European Commission as a key analytical contribution to the debate on European aid.
AidWatch report 2006
AidWatch report 2007
AidWatch report 2008
AidWatch report 2009
AidWatch report 2010
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