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Official Flows of Turkey was 157 719 252 US $ in 2002. This total
consist of Official Grants (39 653 777 US $), Payments to Multilateral
Organisations (46 276 182 US $) and Other Official Flows (71
789 293 US $).
According to the classifications and standards of Development Assistance
Committee (DAC), 26 692 650 US $ was paid to developing countries
(Part I), 12 331 494 US $ was paid to transition countries (Part
II) and 629 633 US $ was paid to other countries from the total
official flows (157 719 252 US $).
A part of these official flows paid to the Part I countries in order
to support development is called as Official Development Assistance
(ODA). These payments are recorded as
- grants (project and program aid, technical co-operation, developmental
food aid, emergency aid, promotion of development, administrative costs
and other),
- non grant official development assistance (loans given by
governmental agencies or private foundations, acquisition of equity and
other),
- payments to multilateral organisations (grants, subscriptions
and concessional lendings).
These values are given in Table 3.
Furthermore, a part of these official flows paid to Part II countries in order to support development is called as Official Aid (OA).
These values are given in Table 4.
According to DAC standards, the ratio of Official Development Assistance
(ODA) to Gross National Product (GNP) is an important concept to observe
the aid capacity and aid performance of the country. The ODA/GNP ratio
is approximately 0.04% in Turkey (OECD average is 0.39%,
target of United Nations is 0.70%).
Some part of Other Official Flows (50 399 331 US $) were transferred to PartI countries in 2002. This amount consists of loans to national investors (2 381 561 US $) and other transactions (48 017 770 US $) and remaining part of Other Official Flows were transferred to Part II countries in 2002. This amount consist of loans to national investors (21 389 962 US $). These loans vary year by year and by countries.
Table 6-A: Grants by Countries in 2001
(Part I countries, US $)
Table 6-B: Grants by Countries in 2002
(Part I countries, US $)
Table 7-A: Grants by Countries in 2001
(Part II countries, US $)
Table 7-B: Grants by Countries in 2002
(Part II countries, US $)