ODA-DAC-Graduation concept

When and why do countries stop being eligible for receiving Official Development Assistance?


By Carsten Staur, Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee


The OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) has defined a set of criteria for including countries on its list of Official Development Assistance (ODA) recipients and, similarly, for them to graduate from the list, primarily because their economic growth has made them high income countries.  

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