Danes defy donor fatigue, top OECD aid list

Denmark reported the highest aid level - 1.03 per cent of GNI - among OECD countries in 1993, while other donors’ development assistance fell by an average of 10 per cent. (See DT 10/94)

And the Danish figure does not include another 0.11 per cent in environmental aid that was not counted as ODA.

“It is good to be number one," said Danish Development Minister Helle Degn in an official statement. “But it would certainly be much better if others gave us competition ... I hope the figures do not mark a new tendency."

Among the Nordics, Finland recorded the biggest drop, from 0.64 per cent of GNI in 1992 to 0.46 per cent. According to OECD, Norwegian aid dropped by 11 per cent to 1.01 per cent of GNI, while Swedish assistance declined by 7 per cent to 0.97 per cent of GNI in 1993.

Japan remained the largest overall donor, in spite of reductions in nominal amounts provided in 1993 - at 0.26 per cent of GNI. The United States gave the smallest percentage of its GNI to development assistance of all the OECD donors: 0.14 per cent.

August 29, 2009

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