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As budgets tighten, some EU states are using "ambiguous and outdated" international rules on what can count as official development assistance (ODA) to include high-interest loans to developing countries in their annual aid figures, said the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad).
According to UNCTAD: Official development assistance (ODA) refers to grants or loans to developing countries that: (a) are undertaken by the official sector; (b) have the promotion of economic development and welfare as the main objective; (c) are at concessional financial terms, having a grant element of at least 25%% (UNCTAD 2010 49).
A secondary market in P2P loans is developing fast.
Mr. Bush proposed replacing as much as half of the bank's loans to developing countries with outright grants, a change that the World Bank leadership has resisted.
Fifty years later, what was then known as Citicorp found itself in trouble again as huge loans to developing countries in Latin America soured.
And as the debt crisis worsens, European banks are calling in loans from developing markets including Russia, raising the cost of borrowing.
When making loans to developing countries, the various aid institutions stress good agricultural practices, along with basic sanitation, infrastructure and communications.
When combined with his pledges of greater international financing for the fight against AIDS and more loans for developing countries, total foreign aid would spike fully 75percentt, well above Clinton administration levels.
Already the provider of more loans to developing countries than the World Bank, according to research by the Financial Times, China finances numerous agricultural, hydropower, housing, railway, roadworks and mining projects in the region, particularly in Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Vietnam and the Philippines.
