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August 2024 Newsletter
August 2024 ODAReform.org Newsletter Dear Friends, I hope that those of you who share the Northern Hemisphere with us are having a good...
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Aug 2, 20245 min read
Climate Finance: What Needs to be Done!
This special ODAReform page contains three articles about the measurement of climate finance. - The first, by Steve Cutts, identifies the key problems with the $100 billion per year climate finance target and the lessons they offer for any follow-up target. - The second, by Simon Scott, discusses the pros and cons of four published methods of measuring financial flows against the $100 billion pledge. - The third, by Hedwig Riegler, discusses the practical problems of developi
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Jul 29, 20241 min read
Simon Scott: Write Your Own ODA Receipt, June 2023
Do discount rates really make much of a difference? Scott shows that they really do! Double-click below to download paper
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Jun 11, 20231 min read
Steve Cutts: Credit Where Credit's Due, February 2022
This was the first paper I sent to the DAC Chair in February 2022
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May 4, 20231 min read
Simon Scott: Statistical No-Nos, May 2023
The DAC’s ODA rules are now logically and ethically invalid – here’s why
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May 4, 20231 min read
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May 3, 20230 min read
John Speedy: A Modest Proposal for UK's ODA, March 2023
John Speedy (who tells us he is Regius Chair of Developmental Mathematics and from Punkeydoodles Corners, Ontario, kindly gave us...
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May 1, 20231 min read
Hedwig Riegler: Governance of ODA accounting – no substantial ODA reform without governance reform
This guest piece, by Hedwig Riegler, former Chair of the OECD/DAC's Working Party on Development Finance Statistics calls for a fresh...
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May 1, 20231 min read
Steve Cutts: Point-by-point response to the OECD FAQ defending ODA accounting, October 2022
This is the annex that I attached to my letter to the OECD DSG
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Apr 29, 20231 min read
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