Der er dog ikke tale om, at bistanden stagnerer, men den stiger mindre end G8-landene lovede for 5 år siden
The G8 leading industrial nations delivered only 61 percent of the increased aid they promised to sub-Saharan Africa by 2010 in their 2005 summit, a study showed on Monday.
The anti-poverty group ONE criticized France, Germany and Italy for failing to meet targets set for them at the G8 Gleneagles summit nearly six years ago. It commended Britain for progress on an ambitious target and said the US, Japan and Canada had surpassed their relatively modest targets.
ONE Executive Director Jamie Drummond said:
– Unfortunately it comes as no surprise that (Italy´s) Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has yet again abjectly failed to deliver on his promises – and we continue to call for Italy to be at least temporarily removed from the G8 for this reason.
– But it is worrying that President Sarkozy and France are so far behind in a year when so much is expected of them as hosts of the G8 and G20, and at a time when African development, peace and democracy is at the top of the agenda, noted he.
In a recent draft of the accountability report, prepared for this month’s G8 summit in France, the G8 claims to have increased annual aid by almost 49 billion US dollar between 2004 and 2010, just 1 billion a year short of the target set in the 2005 Gleneagles summit.
The draft conflicts with the assessment by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Its development assistance committee (DAC) calculates that development aid in 2010 was 19 billion dollar short of the 2005 targets.
The difference arises because the G8’s draft has failed to take inflation into account, making cash increases in aid appear more generous, purely because prices have risen between 2004 and 2010.
Kilde: www.worldbank.org
