CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
Abstract
Chapter 1: Introduction
Figure 1: Aid by intended use: All DAC donors
2010 (Total aid = US$128.5 billion)
Figure 2: Aid by intended use: United Kingdom
2010 (Total aid US$13.1 billion)
Chapter 2: The Global Aid Context: Who Gives
What?
Figure 3: DAC Donors: Who gives what?
Spending
Figure 4: The Long View: Net ODA from DAC
Members, US$ billions and share of Gross National Income (GNI)
Table 1: Aid and Private Capital Flows to
Developing Countries 2010
Aid Recipients
Figure 5: Aid by destination: DAC donors
2010
Figure 6: Aid by destination: UK 2010
Chapter 3: The Aims of Aid
Aid, growth and the private sector
Additional objectives
Forms of Aid
Chapter 4: The Impact of Aid
The challenges of assessing the impact of
aid
What does the evidence say?
Aid and accountability
Fungibility
Graduation from aid dependency
Table 2: Fast-growing aid graduates
Aid and corruption
Capital flight
Aid and poverty
Chapter 5: Fragile States
Chapter 6: British Aid Policy
Institutional and statutory framework
The aims of British aid policy
Spending on aid
Figure 7: UK Gross Public Expenditure
on Development 2006-2011 (current prices)
Figure 8: The DFID Programme 2006-2011
Table 3: UK Aid Summary
Chapter 7: How DFID Operates
Table 4: Principal recipients of UK Bilateral
Aid (excluding humanitarian assistance and regional or non-allocable
expenditure) 2010/11 and 2015
Bilateral vs multilateral
Why aid India?
Budget support
Aid, private investment and DFID
Political conditionality
DFID and NGOs
Should DFID learn from China's engagement
with developing countries?
Staffing
Corruption
The Independent Commission for Aid Impact
(ICAI)
Appendix 1: Select Committee on Economic
Affairs
Appendix 2: List of Witnesses
Appendix 3: Call for Evidence
Appendix 4: Glossary
Appendix 5: The OECD Development Assistance
Committee (DAC)
Appendix 6: DAC definitions
NOTE:
Evidence is published online at www.parliament.uk/hleconomicaffairs
and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020
7219 5314)
References in footnotes to the Report are as follows:
Q Refers to a question in oral evidence;
Witness names without a question reference refer
to written evidence
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