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Foreign Assistance in India’s Foreign Policy: Political and Economic Determinants
Table 1. DAC ODA (Official Development Assistance) 1960–2017
Year ODA (U.S.D. Mn) ODA as a Percent
of GNI
1960 4,676 0.51
1970 6,713 0.33
1980 26,304 0.35
1990 52,808 0.33
2000 54,021 0.22
2010 128,484 0.32
2012 127,030 0.29
2013 134,847 0.30
2014 137,139 0.29
2015 131,563 0.30
2016 144,965 0.32
2017(p) 146,600 NA
Source: OECD, accessed July 11, 2018—http://www.oecd.org/dac/stats/data.htm
Note:
1. (p) is for preliminary; NA is for not available
2. The values are basis current prices (last updated April 9, 2018)
3. For raw data, see the file “Longterm-ODA” and “TAB01e”
bers not part of DAC; (ii) EU members
from Central and Eastern Europe that
are not part of the OECD; (iii) Middle
East and other OPEC; (iv) “others” that
do not fall into the above three categories
(including China and India).
Of the third subgroup above,
mainly the oil-rich Arab donors, while
these are not members of the OECD’s
DAC most report their aid to the DAC
although not necessarily according to
DAC definitions or disaggregation (for
example, do not report debt forgiveness
as ODA unlike DAC). Arab aid started
in the 1970s, with five aid agencies being
established between 1971 and 1976,
led by the United Arab Emirates (UAE),
Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. The average
net aid for these three states between
1973 and 2008 was 1.5 percent of GNI,
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