MDG Report 2012 - United Nations in Bangladesh

Indicator 8.1b: Net ODA received by Bangladesh, as percentage of OECD/DAC donor‟sGNICurrently there are 34-member states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation andDevelopment (OECD), out of which nine countries provided US$ 363.99 million ODA toBangladesh in 2010-11. The amount was about 20.5 percent of the total ODA received byBangladesh in that particular year. Net ODA received by Bangladesh from nine countries ofOECD/DAC in 2011 is given in Table 9.2.Table 9.2: Net ODA Received by Bangladesh from OECD Countries, 2010-11Country ODAreceived byBangladeshfrom OECDcountries(US$million)GNI ofOECDcountries in2011(US$million)TotalODAprovidedby OECDcountries(US$million)TotalODA as% of GNIof OECDcountriesODAreceivedas % ofGNI ofOECDcountriesODAreceivedas % oftotal ODAfromOECDcountries1 2 3 4 5 =(4/3)*1006 =(2/3)*1007 =(2/4)*100Canada 13.91 1,570,886 5,084 0.32 0.0009 0.27Denmark 13.10 335,102 2,057 0.61 0.0039 0.64Germany 48.05 3,617,712 13,329 0.37 0.0013 0.36Japan 120.02 5,739,473 10,039 0.17 0.0021 1.20Netherlands 0.33 829,013 5,969 0.72 0.0000 0.01Sweden 11.55 502,451 5,005 1.00 0.0023 0.23UK 96.69 2,370,444 13,039 0.55 0.0041 0.74South Korea 54.47 1,038,981 1,259 0.12 0.0052 4.33Norway 5.87 440,185 4,196 0.95 0.0013 0.14Total 363.99 16,444,247 59,977 0.36 0.0022 0.61Source: Column 2: Flow of External Resources into Bangladesh 2011, ERD; Column 3:http://data.worldbank.org/; Column 4: http://www.oecd.org/statistics/It is evident from Table 9.2 that out of the nine OECD countries that provided ODA toBangladesh in 2011, only three countries--Netherlands, Sweden and Norway--are complyingwith their commitment to provide more than 0.7 percent of their GNI as ODA to thedeveloping countries. If we consider Bangladesh‟s ODA received from the OECD countriesas percentage of their GNI, South Korea comes first, followed by the United Kingdom,Denmark and Sweden. On the other hand, if we consider ODA received by Bangladesh aspercentage of total ODA from OECD countries, South Korea again becomes the leaderfollowed by Japan, the United Kingdom and Denmark.In 2011-12, seven OECD countries provided US$ 536.59 million ODA to Bangladesh, whichis about US$ 173 million higher than that in the previous year (Table 9.3). In absolute terms,Japan was the highest provider of ODA amounting to US$ 247.6 million, followed by the UK(US$ 136.8 million) and South Korea (US$ 60 million).97