Yesterday the Center for Global Development released its 2006 "Commitment to Development Index," a comprehensive look at development assistance that takes assess quality of aid as well as quantity.
Afghanistan is a prime example of how aid quantity can be secondary to its quality. Development has faltered because funding has followed donor priorities and bureaucratic processes, and in doing so has failed to strengthen Afghan government capacity. The need to rethink the foreign aid delivery system was a central finding of the Afghanistan Compact in
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The Commitment to Development Index does not look specifically at Afghanistan, but offers some insights into aid practices generally. Note that two of the top donors in Afghanistan (the US, and the UK) are ranked in the bottom half (though they have improved since 2003), while a third (Japan) claims last place.
Here's an except from the Index overview:
Each year the CDI rates and ranks 21 rich countries on how much their policies help or hurt poorer nations. The CDI assigns scores in seven policy areas (foreign aid, trade, investment, migration, environment, security, and technology), with the average being the overall score. The idea is to provide a much more comprehensive picture than the usual comparisons of donor nations on how much aid they give.
This year, the Netherlands moved into first, mainly because a conservative government in the formerly number-one Denmark has cut aid spending. Japan remains in last place as the country whose government is least engaged with developing countries. As in the past, the G-7 "leading industrial nations" have not led on the CDI; Germany, top among them, is in 9th place overall.
There's a lot more at their websites for the data junkies out there:
- Browse the CDI charts by clicking bars, country names, and policy components
- Explore the Data Maps to see results another way.
- Read the Foreign Policy article here.
Here are six findings from the study:
1. Rich-country policies matter
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2. Development is about more than aid
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6. No one is perfect
Almost all countries score below average in at least one area and most are below average in at least three.
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