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Giant and Dwarf(an upper middle income country), €450,000 to Bosnia, €380,000 to Moldova, €360,000 toGeorgia, more than €350,000 to Macedonia and a quarter of a million to the Ukraine.This imbalance is even more apparent when we consider the populations of the countrieswe have mentioned. Serbia with a population of less than 7.2 million received as muchofficial development assistance as the five countries considered the most impoverished inthe world with a total of population of 173 million (Ethiopia with 84, Sudan 31, Mozambique23, Afghanistan 25 and Haiti 10). The nominal per capita GDP in Serbia 213 reached$5,270, while according to World Bank statistics the same nominal per capita GDP for thefive most impoverished countries to which Slovak ODA flowed ranged from $360 (Ethiopia)to $1,420 (Sudan) with consideration for parity purchasing power. If we replace the Sudanwith South Sudan, the total population number drops to 150 million but the distributionof nominal per capita GDP falls from $360 in Ethiopia to $670 in Haiti. I don’t want to bepathetic, but I really want to scream out: “Just cut it out, brothers!”... and let’s start thinkingbecause these numbers and the absurdity they encapsulate are hard to ignore.Assistance for the Poorest CountriesPoorest economiesLow incomeeconomiesLower middleincome economiesUpper middleincome economiesSource: Slovak Development Assistance in 2010, MVRO, September 2011.Available at http://www.mvro.sk/sk/kniznica/category/2-publikacie.I’m not going to dive into a detailed analysis of the assistance provided by the CzechDevelopment Agency but a short review of the topics and projects involved in such developmentcooperation supported by the agency 214 highlight the fact that countries suchas Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia and Georgia also receive a similarly disproportionate and213 Wikipedia was used as the source of this data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita.214 Reports and program documents can be found at http://www.czda.cz/cra/kde-pomahame.htm.250
Low Hanging Fruit. Central Europe and Development Aid for Africalarge share of financial assistance in comparison with the impoverished countries ofAfrica and Asia. Countries included as the program countries, or those that are consideredpriorities and where the largest portion of Czech ODA is directed, include Moldova, Mongolia,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Afghanistan and Ethiopia with Kosovo, Serbia, Georgia,the Palestinian-held territories and Cambodia considered project countries; the grouplabelled others, or from which Czech development aid is slowly leaving, include Angola,Yemen, Vietnam and Zambia.Czech ODA is gradually withdrawing from four lower middle income countries, whichwould seem to make some level of sense. Project level activity remains the same in threeother countries in the same lower MIC category (Kosovo, Georgia and the PalestinianWest Bank and Gaza), in one poor country (Cambodia) and in one upper middle incomecountry (Serbia). 215 This is also understandable given Czech political interests in other post-Communist areas (Serbia, Kosovo and Georgia) but these activities, with the exception ofCambodia, are not in line with global efforts to combat extreme poverty and to achieve theMDGs. Finally, the highest priority is given to two poor countries, Afghanistan and Ethiopia,two countries with middle income (Moldova and Mongolia) and one with upper middleincome (Bosnia and Herzegovina).It would appear that we are seeing at least a bit more progress here as two of the fivepriority countries are actually poor. The sobering reality once again appears when we considerthe populations of these five countries: both of the really impoverished countries havea combined population of nearly 110 million people while the other three much wealthierpriority countries are home to 10 million (3.8 million in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 3.5 millionin Moldova and 2.7 million in Mongolia). If Czech ODA was distributed between the fivepriority countries evenly, with 20 % for each, then 40 % would be shared by the 110 millionpeople in the most impoverished countries. The remaining 60 % would be shared by 10 millionpeople in the Balkans and Mongolia.Slovak politicians and ODA managers should take a serious look at these figures but itwouldn’t hurt the Czechs to take a step back and reconsider them as well.Weak support for development assistance from Slovak politicians and extreme disproportionalityin the distribution of these funds that finally filter down to bilateral assistanceare the result of a combination of two factors. The first of these is a lack of interest,which is to a large extent based on a lack of knowledge about developing countries and thelack of any “demand” among voters on this topic. The second is the low competency amongpeople who made decisions about and manage development assistance. Even politicianswho have had the opportunity to see the horrendous depth and scope of poverty in thecountries of the bottom billion easily give up on efforts to bring about change after theyreturn home. I’m reminded of one emotional appearance made by one of the more prominentMPs in Slovakia in the ruling political party at the time made during a conference held215 The economic level of these countries was classified using World Bank definitions: http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications/country-and-lending-groups.251
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