📢 New R package on CRAN: {owidapi}! Easily pull chart data from @ourworldindata.org into R: fetch data, explore datasets & embed charts in docs & Shiny apps (experimental). Feedback & ideas welcome 🙏

Foreign Aid and (Big) Shocks: Evidence from Natural Disasters We explore the effect of (big) shocks on the allocation of (bilateral) aid using natural disasters as natural experiments. We find that aid commitment statistically significantly increases following n...

This somewhat depressing about post-disaster foreign assistance: poorest countries or countries faced with most damaging natural disasters do not receive the most aid, no evidence that foreign aid disburses faster following natural disasters.

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With the knives out on development spending, have we reached ‘peak aid’? | Nilima Gulrajani and Jessica Pudussery From Trump’s Project 2025 to a huge aid cut by the Dutch, donors are turning their backs on the developing world

Budget pressures & rising costs in wealthy countries are putting pressure on public spending. Many of these countries are cutting their ODA budgets or spending more at home - the UK is now the biggest recipient of its own aid. A sobering look at global ODA trends.
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The Future of Official Development Assistance: Incremental Improvements or Radical Reform? Official development assistance (ODA) is at a crossroads, and reform is needed to balance the original mission of poverty reduction with the growing demands of global challenges such as climate change...

Great to see this compendium on the future of #ODA edited by @cgdev.org, highlighting key political and institutional realities and outlining potential pathways to reform. Check it out here: www.cgdev.org/publication/.... More on key trends and findings on #ODA in 2023: www.oecd.org/en/topics/of....

If you are looking to access the latest #stats on #ODA and other #financing in 2023, @oecd-ocde.bsky.social has got you covered:

- Our Data Explorer: data-explorer.oecd.org.

- Our web: www.oecd.org/en/topics/of....

- Our #dataviz: public.flourish.studio/story/2786612/.

Much more coming!

Official development assistance (ODA) Official development assistance (ODA) is government aid that promotes and specifically targets the economic development and welfare of developing countries. ODA has been the main source of financing f...

Is this thing even on?

Check out @oecd-ocde.bsky.social's final stats on official development assistance in 2023: www.oecd.org/en/topics/po.... #ODA increased from 2022 to 2023, marking an all-time high for the fifth consecutive year. New #dataviz: public.flourish.studio/story/2786612/.

What do elites want from the foreign aid they receive? Conjoint experiment in 141 countries w/ Sam Custer and Phil Roessler, now online @ajpseditor.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We @ourworldindata.bsky.social now have a topic page on foreign aid!

It allows you to explore data on who gives and receives foreign aid, the different types of assistance, and a few examples of when it has been successful.

A thread on what the page has in store: