If you told the taxman you made a $6 million loss when you really made a $31 million profit, you could go to jail.  But as Simon Scott...

February 2024 ODAReform.org Newsletter Dear Friends, If it is not too late, I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year. As some...

Donors have come up with a new trick -- scoring ODA for selling financial guarantees.  Scott and Riegler explain why this rabbit won't...

An international group of experts on the measurement of aid and other resource flows to developing countries met in Brussels, Belgium on...

The miracle of "private sector instruments" -- endless new ODA at the touch of a button Double-click below to download paper

Scott explains the DAC's simple solution for unwelcome figures - just report something else! Double-click below to download paper

Do discount rates really make much of a difference? Scott shows that they really do! Double-click below to download paper

Scott explains why Bond himself would be shaken not stirred by the DAC's latest poisonous addition to its ODA cocktail Double-click below...

Equity or iniquity? – Hedi Riegler puts the DAC’s latest proposed ODA rule changes under the microscope

Simon Scott shows how the DAC's latest proposals to over-count ODA in equity investments are statistically incoherent, and should be...

The DAC's pea-and-thimble trick to score "cost-free" ODA

John Speedy (who tells us he is Regius Chair of Developmental Mathematics and from Punkeydoodles Corners, Ontario, kindly gave us...

This guest piece, by Hedwig Riegler, former Chair of the OECD/DAC's Working Party on Development Finance Statistics calls for a fresh...

This is the annex that I attached to my letter to the OECD DSG