Official Aid In Line for a Makeover as Donors Announce 'Historic Agreement' (The Guardian)

From the article:

Owen Barder, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, said: “Now, [donors] can make a sensible judgement about how to structure a loan without having to push it over a threshold to get the whole thing to count, because the more concessional it is, the more it counts as aid.”

“Before there was a cliff-edge problem: [donors] made the loan just concessional enough to get over the 25% grant element threshold and then the whole value of the loan counted as ODA,” he said.

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