PowerPoint Presentation Economic Growth and development in Southeast Asia

There are different categories of “aid”

• Official Development Assistance (ODA) is aid provided by DAC donor governments to low and middle income countries for development purposes
• Bilateral, national aid programs
• Multilateral (UN organizations, WB, ADB, also regional banks)
• Private Voluntary Assistance is another important source increasing rapidly—including (some) humanitarian assistance
• Churches, faith based organizations have been involved for decades
• More recent, rapid expansion of assistance provided by INGOs e.g. Save the Children, Oxfam, World Vision and foundations
• And new foundations like Gates, which current provides more than $1 billion in support primarily for education and health research and programs in low income countries.
• In recent years, private assistance is estimated to provide countries with as much as half to two-thirds increase over official development assistance (ODA)
• But private assistance is not counted in ODA, which is limited to “official” sources