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Blog Post
December 03, 2024
ODA has increased more quickly but six providers are spending at least a third of their ODA domestically. Refugee hosting costs are the main driver. We argue that ODA has become polluted with items of limited relevance to developing countries welfare; and urge the parties to consider proposals that ...
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October 14, 2024
In this note we estimate what refugee costs might come to in 2024, and consider ways to reduce costs. We find that if the government continues to spend and report the same amount of ODA per asylum seeker and refugee as in 2023, then total refugee-related costs will remain high, at around £3.6 billio...
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September 25, 2024
In 2023, the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) countries recorded a huge $29 billion of Official Development Assistance (ODA) spent on hosting refugees and asylum seekers within their own borders. Here, we put forward new analysis, showing that the cost each country reports per person ar...
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July 18, 2024
Fiscal pressures in G7 countries are real—Germany’s cabinet has just agreed to implement further spending cuts in response to theirs—but so too is the geopolitical case for investing more in climate and development. The replenishment of the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) fu...
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April 10, 2024
The UK Government has committed to producing a strategy on how the UK will support local leadership on development, climate, nature and humanitarian action; and its Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has endorsed a Donor Statement on Supporting Locally Led Development. Lisa Nandy, Labour’s...
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March 07, 2024
In this blog, we explore how OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) providers have been incorporating gender-based targets in their climate-related Official Development Assistance (ODA). We find that development finance categorised as climate-related has increasingly incorporated gender-related...
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December 11, 2023
In past years, the UK Government has undertaken substantial assessments of each multilateral’s effectiveness to inform UK funding decisions. In this blog, we explore how these major assessments of Value for Money (VfM) affected the UK’s multilateral aid allocation. To do this, we’ve accessed previou...
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September 07, 2023
We have reviewed each of the UK’s seven main finance tools—from export finance to capital increases at its private finance arm, British International Investment. Overall, we find that the UK has substantially increased the level of finance it mobilises, from around £3bn in 2018, to £5bn in 2021, and...