Rich Country Donors Still Well Off-Track on Their Aid Commitments

GREAT BRITAIN–(ENEWSPF)–14 April 2010.  Today’s figures, from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), show that although there has been a fraction of an increase in total aid, from $122 to $123 billion, the amount of aid has actually fallen by $3.5 billion when compared with last year’s prices. This comes at a time when the World Bank forecasts that 50,000 more children in Sub-Saharan countries may have died this year because of the…