Talk:Official development assistance

message: I have no idea why there was a redirect on the talk page, so I took it off. I'm against the merger because Official development assistance is a subset of Development aid, which was made clear in the article. -- DSGruss 18:26, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: "It is also the country that produces the greatest value of goods and services, i.e. GNP. However, the US federal government's budget is ~0.2% of its GNI, whereas Norway's is ~0.9%."
Confusing, first GNP is mentioned, and in the sentence before, then GNI.. I checked that they are basically successors (gnp of gni) but someone might check this and make consistent. SuperMidget 07:18, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  GNP or GNI 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Pyat rublei 1997.jpg

message: As per WP:CRIT we are not supposed to have a section heading of "criticism". Could we change it to for example difficulties or challenges or reception or something like that? EMsmile (talk) 04:46, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The content of "Criticisms" is mainly about problems with making ODA a meaningful and useful category of measurement, so I'm thinking that most of this could be turned into an introductory caveat for the quantitative analysis, or even integrated with "Developments since inception". Mrmedley (talk) 05:54, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:   Sounds good to me, please go ahead.  EMsmile (talk) 11:44, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have changed the section heading now from "criticism" to "problem areas". Do you agree with that, Mrmedley? And is there still anything else that you think should be moved to "Developments since inception" or elsewhere in the article? EMsmile (talk) 02:09, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

text:  Yes, EMsmile, that's an improvement. There is still a lot of room for further improvement along the lines you previously suggested, and other things. I've been busy with something else recently, but will try to get back to this soon. (Unless you make all the other improvements in the mean time!) Mrmedley (talk) 15:09, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename section heading that is currently called "criticism"? 

message: I have added a new section regarding the SDGs and how they use ODA as targets and indicators. Please check and let me know if I've chosen the right level of detail. We might be able to find other references that shine a light on SDGs plus ODA in more detail (I haven't searched yet). EMsmile (talk) 11:49, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added information on [[SDG]]s