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Simon Scott: Abolishing Concessionality, May 2023
The DAC's pea-and-thimble trick to score "cost-free" ODA
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May 6, 20231 min read
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Welcome Blog
Welcome to the new ODAReform.org website. Please do take some time to look around the different sections, including a recounting of the...
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May 6, 20232 min read
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Steve Cutts: 1st Letter to DAC Chair, February 2022
This was the first letter I sent to the DAC Chair drawing on the findings of the paper I attached, "Credit Where Credit's Due", setting...
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May 5, 20231 min read
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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
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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
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Steve Cutts: 2nd Letter to DAC Chair, March 2022
This was the 2nd Letter I sent to the DAC Chair, reiterating the calls for ODA Reform and showing the magnitude of over-counting of aid...
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May 2, 20231 min read
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Steve Cutts: My Meeting with WP Stat and OECD Officials, May 2022
This is my personal record of the discussions before and at the meeting in May 2022, at which we discuss the overcounting of aid in ODA...
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May 2, 20231 min read
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Steve Cutts: ODA and the Donation of Surplus COVID Vaccines, March 2023
Numerous allegations have been made that the DAC’s guidance for claiming ODA for the donation of surplus COVID-19 vaccines originally...
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May 1, 20231 min read
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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
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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
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Steve Cutts: 3rd Letter to DAC Chair, July 2022
Having still received no substantive response (although she did have time to respond to my FT article!) I wrote a 3rd time, drawing...
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May 1, 20231 min read
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Steve Cutts: Letter to OECD Deputy Secretary-General, October 2022
After being told that the OECD's FAQ published in October 2022 purported to comprise their response to the issues I had raised, I wrote a...
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Apr 30, 20231 min read
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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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Steve Cutts: The Campaign Beyond the DAC/OECD, May 2023
Here are some of the articles and work to promote the campaign beyond the OECD
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Apr 27, 20231 min read
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