Aid credibility figures at stake
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Some of the world’s richest European countries spend billions at home that they report as “aid”, exploiting a loophole that enables them to cut vital development budgets.
Under current accounting rules, the costs of receiving refugees can count towards a donor country’s total overseas development assistance (ODA).
In 2016, leading donor countries reported $15.4 billion of domestic spending on refugees as ODA, a huge rise from $3.9 billion in 2012 and several times more than they spend on refugees abroad.
That’s also more than they spent on emergency aid in foreign countries, and more than three times the income of the UN refugee agency.
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