Coming to Terms with Reality. Evaluation of the Belgian Debt Relief ...

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Debt relief policy and practice by Belgium
Table 3.5 ODA per recipient country (period 1988-2009; in mio EUR)
88-95 96-99 00-09 Total % of 88-95 % of 96-99 % of 00-09
HIPC Countries 143.95 212.94 1,472.79 1,829.68 74.15 96.19 66.63
Benin 1.80 11.51 0.00 13.31 0.93 5.20 0.00
Bolivia 57.37 27.45 11.45 96.28 29.55 12.40 0.52
Burkina Faso 2.48 0.00 0.00 2.48 1.28 0.00 0.00
Burundi 0.00 0.00 3.00 3.00 0.00 0.00 0.14
Cameroon 0.00 29.60 210.49 240.09 0.00 13.37 9.52
CAR 0.00 1.88 0.00 1.88 0.00 0.85 0.00
Comoros 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Congo Brazzaville 5.49 9.27 25.45 40.21 2.83 4.19 1.15
Congo DRC 0.00 0.00 992.19 992.19 0.00 0.00 44.88
Côte d’Ivoire 12.66 33.19 78.45 124.30 6.52 14.99 3.55
Ethiopia 5.48 5.73 12.50 23.71 2.82 2.59 0.57
Ghana 0.00 0.00 1.82 1.82 0.00 0.00 0.08
Guinée 5.13 0.92 4.46 10.51 2.64 0.42 0.20
Guinée-Bissau 0.00 2.03 2.69 4.72 0.00 0.92 0.12
Liberia 0.00 0.00 8.53 8.53 0.00 0.00 0.39
Madagascar 0.00 23.54 2.99 26.54 0.00 10.63 0.14
Mozambique 1.60 0.00 0.00 1.60 0.83 0.00 0.00
Niger 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Rwanda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Sao Tomé 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Senegal 0.07 3.15 1.94 5.16 0.04 1.42 0.09
Sierra Leone 8.78 0.62 13.01 22.40 4.52 0.28 0.59
Tanzania 19.38 59.93 59.76 139.07 9.98 27.07 2.70
Togo 13.56 4.10 44.07 61.73 6.98 1.85 1.99
Zambia 10.15 0.00 0.00 10.15 5.23 0.00 0.00
Non-HIPC LICs 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00
Kenya 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00 0.00
Other 50.18 4.50 638.95 693.63 25.85 2.03 28.90
Bosnia-Herzegovina 0.00 3.40 0.00 3.40 0.00 1.53 0.00
Ecuador 5.34 0.00 0.00 5.34 2.75 0.00 0.00
Gabon 0.00 0.00 0.36 0.36 0.00 0.00 0.02
Guatemala 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Indonesia 0.00 0.00 0.10 0.10 0.00 0.00 0.00
Iraq 0.00 0.00 267.92 267.92 0.00 0.00 12.12
Nigeria 0.00 0.00 269.29 269.29 0.00 0.00 12.18
Pakistan 0.00 0.00 0.17 0.17 0.00 0.00 0.01
Peru 0.57 0.00 0.00 0.57 0.29 0.00 0.00
Serbia-Montenegro 0.00 0.00 68.20 68.20 0.00 0.00 3.09
Seychelles 0.00 0.00 1.41 1.41 0.00 0.00 0.06
Coming to Terms with Reality
Table 3.5 ODA per recipient country (period 1988-2009; in mio EUR)
88-95 96-99 00-09 Total % of 88-95 % of 96-99 % of 00-09
Suriname 0.00 1.11 0.00 1.11 0.00 0.50 0.00
Vietnam 44.27 0.00 31.50 75.76 22.80 0.00 1.42
Multilateral 0.00 3.94 98.81 102.76 0.00 1.78 4.47
HIPC-MDRI earmarked 0.00 3.94 98.81 102.76 0.00 1.78 4.47
others 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 194.14 221.38 2,210.56 2,626.08 100.00 100.00 100.00
of which partner countries 143.94 164.83 1,096.84 1,405.60 74.14 74.46 49.62
non-partner countries 50.20 52.61 1,014.91 1,117.72 25.86 23.76 45.91
Source: Authors’ calculation from DGD ODA database
This is purely an internal Belgian matter, which is not taken into account by the DAC 71 .
How important is debt relief in total Belgian ODA? As can be seen in table 3.6., for the
2000-2009 period, the share of debt relief in total ODA ranges from 5.2% to an exceptional
peak of 40.6% in 2003 (due to DRC). Also in 2006 and 2007, it is higher than 20%, due to the
Iraq and Nigeria Paris Club agreements. A graphical representation of the swings over the years
is added as Figure 3.2.
Table 3.6 The share of debt relief (DR) in total Belgian ODA (in mio EUR and %; 2000-2009)
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Total ODA 889.41 968.45 1,137.06 1,640.44 1,177.82 1,579.72 1,575.03 1,424.00 1,653.96 1,867.63
Total Debt Relief 72.03 65.26 189.71 665.98 171.55 378.68 325.41 147.90 97.02 97.01
Debt relief as
share of ODA
8.10% 6.74% 16.68% 40.60% 14.57% 23.97% 20.66% 10.38% 5.87% 5.19%
Debt relief by
ONDD in Paris Club
34.23 41.19 171.40 664.79 148.85 358.68 284.80 71.31 69.79 74.75
Debt relief by ONDD
as share of ODA
3.85% 4.25% 15.07% 40.52% 12.64% 22.71% 18.08% 5.00% 4.22% 4.00%
Debt relief by
MINFIN
16.32 4.43 -18.83 1.19 0.67 -0.22 32.45 63.76 8.56 0.02
Debt relief by
MINFIN as share of
ODA
1.84% 0.46% -1.66% 0.07% 0.06% -0.01% 2.06% 4.47% 0.52% 0.00%
Interventions by
DGD
21.47 19.64 37.15 0.00 22.03 20.21 8.16 12.83 18.67 22.23
Debt relief by DGD
as share of ODA
2.41% 2.03% 3.27% 0.00% 1.87% 1.28% 0.52% 0.90% 1.13% 1.19%
ODA/GNI 0.36% 0.37% 0.43% 0.60% 0.41% 0.53% 0.50% 0.43% 0.48% 0.55%
DR/GNI 0.03% 0.02% 0.07% 0.24% 0.06% 0.13% 0.10% 0.04% 0.03% 0.03%
Source: Authors’ calculation from DGD ODA database
71 In fact, along the same lines, strictly speaking the ODA of induced swaps is solely created by the swap
operation done by DGD with the debtor country, not by the buyback between ONDD and DGD.
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