In 2012, the OECD decided to create a new measure of development finance that would be much wider than just “official development...

Professor Speedy presents his insights and recommendations to promote Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD) as the...

Hedwig Riegler points out the fundamental problems of a system designed under political influence and for political reasons which,...

Given all the problems created by the DAC’s recent changes to ODA rules, it is no surprise to see proposals for alternative measures of...

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...

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

The DAC’s ODA rules are now logically and ethically invalid – here’s why

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...