Press Release: Commissioner Piebalgs calls on Member States to intensify efforts to increase development aid

The European Union and its Member States continued to be the world's largest aid donor in 2013 according to the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), providing more than half of the Official Development Assistance (ODA). Figures published on 8 April 2014 show that EU collective ODA (EU institutions and Member States) increased from €55.3 billion in 2012 to €56.5 billion in 2013, after two consecutive years of decline.

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European Commission: RAPID: MEMO/14/263: Publication of preliminary data on 2013 Official Development Assistance http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-263_en.pdf

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