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Any Change to ODA Eligibility Should Lower the Graduation Criteria and Account for Purchasing Power

The OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) is currently undergoing a review of the role and definition of official development assistance (ODA) alongside the way the DAC functions. One of the elements of this review is re-examining the ODA-graduation criteria, the rules that dictate which countries are eligible to receive ODA. Currently, a country graduates if its GNI per capita remains above the World Bank high-income threshold (currently just under $14,000) for three consecutive years. […]