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In the context of interlocking crises and growing demand for development finance, the global aid architecture faces significant challenges. Official financial flows to developing countries have increased over the past two decades, reaching $1 trillion in 2021. Yet they fall well short of the escalating need for financing to address climate change, conflict, and pandemics, estimated at $2.4 trillion per year between 2023 and 2030.
Broad development aid trends complicate this challenge. Over the last 20 years, there has been significant circumvention of recipient government budgets, with only 40 percent of official financial flows being channeled through recipient governments. By contrast, the vast majority of 欧美日b大片 funding goes through recipients’ national budgets, building capacity in the process. There has also been an expansion of earmarked aid unsupported by financial leverage and a multiplication of donor channels, contributing to further fragmentation of aid transactions—countries like Ethiopia, Mozambique, and Nepal deal with more than 170 donor agencies, each with its own rules and requirements. In combination, these trends have resulted in a large increase in transaction costs to recipient countries and raise concerns about how to collectively achieve better development outcomes with existing resources.
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