Development aid | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-21

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00:03:07 1 History and Background
00:03:17 1.1 Origins
00:09:12 1.2 Postwar expansion
00:16:05 1.3 Critiques of development aid
00:17:53 2 Extent of Aid
00:18:43 2.1 Top recipient countries
00:18:52 2.2 Top donor countries
00:21:59 3 Effects of Foreign Aid on Developing Countries
00:22:11 3.1 Effect on the Recipient Country's Development
00:28:05 3.2 Effects of Foreign Aid in Africa.
00:29:17 3.2.1 Death of Local Industries:
00:30:23 3.2.2 Neocolonialism:
00:32:05 3.2.3 Aid Dependency:
00:33:37 3.2.4 Corruption:
00:36:36 3.2.5 Positive effects of Aid in Africa:
00:38:32 4 Effectiveness
00:57:31 4.1 MIT based study
00:58:43 4.2 UK Parliamentary study
01:01:38 5 Types of Aid
01:01:47 5.1 Private Aid
01:02:40 5.2 Aid for Gender Equality
01:09:13 5.2.1 Effectiveness of Aid for Gender Equality
01:14:05 5.2.2 Criticisms of Aid for Gender Equality
01:17:25 6 Remittances
01:18:54 7 National development aid programs
01:19:38 8 See also



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Development aid or development cooperation (also development assistance, technical assistance, international aid, overseas aid, official development assistance (ODA), or foreign aid) is financial aid given by governments and other agencies to support the economic, environmental, social, and political development of developing countries. It can be further defined as "aid expended in a manner that is anticipated to promote development, whether achieved through economic growth or other means". It is distinguished from humanitarian aid by focusing on alleviating poverty in the long term, rather than a short term response. 

The term development cooperation, which is used, for example, by the World Health Organization (WHO), is used to express the idea that a partnership should exist between donor and recipient, rather than the traditional situation in which the relationship was dominated by the wealth and specialised knowledge of one side. Most development aid comes from the Western industrialised countries but some poorer countries also contribute aid.
Aid may be bilateral: given from one country directly to another; or it may be multilateral: given by the donor country to an international organisation such as the World Bank or the United Nations Agencies (UNDP, UNICEF, UNAIDS, etc.) which then distributes it among the developing countries. The proportion is currently about 70% bilateral 30% multilateral.About 80–85% of developmental aid comes from government sources as official development assistance (ODA). The remaining 15–20% comes from private organisations such as "non-governmental organisations" (NGOs), foundations and other development charities (e.g., Oxfam). In addition, remittances received from migrants working or living in diaspora form a significant amount of international transfer.
Some governments also include military assistance in the notion "foreign aid", although many NGOs tend to disapprove of this.
Official development assistance is a measure of government-contributed aid, compiled by the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) since 1969. The DAC consists of 34 of the largest aid-donating countries.