2. Development aid falls for the second year, jeopardising
commitments for 2010
Official development
assistance from
OECD-DAC
countries 1990 - 2007
3. Development assistance will have to increase substantially to double aid to
Africa by 2010
Net official development
assistance from OECD-
DAC countries as a
proportion of donors’ gross
national income 1990-2007
4. Market access for most developing countries has little improved
Proportion of development country
imports from developing countries
,excluding arms and oil,admitted free
of duty and developed countries
average tariffs on imports of key
products of from developing
countries, 2000-2006
5. Domestic agricultural subsides by rich countries overshadow
money spent on development aid
Official development
assistance from OECD-
DAC countries and
agricultural support in
OECD countries,
2000,2004 and 2006
6. Trade-related assistance needs to be icreased
Proportion of total bilateral, sector-
allocable ODA of ODEC-
DAC donors to basic social services
(basic education, primary health care,
nutrition, safe water and sanitation) and
trade-related technical assistance and
capacity-building 2001-2006
7. Domestic agricultural subsides by rich countries overshadow
money spent on development aid
External debt service
payment as proportion
of export revenues,
1990-2006
8. Poor availability and high prices
are barriers to
access to essential drugs
in developing countries
• Governments need to define goods and objectives for the pharmaceutical aid and to identify strategies
to meet them
• Where medicines are usually provided at a low cost or free-of –charge, people are often very poor
• In all regions availability is better in the private sector, but it can still be poor
• Some pharmaceutical manufacturers have lowered their prices to public health systems in developing
countries to accord with the purchasing power of governments and households
• Generic drugs offer an alternative to higher priced original and brand-named medicines
9. Mobile phones are expanding communications in
developing countries
Number of telephone
subscriptions and internet
connections per 100 world
population, 1990-2006
10. Internet use is increasing rapidly, but the poorest regions lag behind