Who's been naughty and who's been nice?

Among other things, the OECD provides statistics on grants and loans made to developing nations by members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC). While it doesn't cover all development aid paid out by every county, their data does contain some interesting figures.

One of the indicators included is the total Official Development Assistance (ODA) grants and loans paid by each country as a percentage of their Gross National Income (GNI).

The maps below are based on 2007 ODA as a % of GNI, as calculated by the OECD.


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And the same thing again, but with figures in the map...


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Data used
Downloaded from the OECD website, data for Development / Aggregate Aid Statistics / ODA by Donor.

Program used
Epi Info again... unfortunately. Its main advantage over MICRODEM is that I can load the map and then link data from an Access data directly to the shapefile, without having to go through the pénible steps of adding columns to the DBF file that comes with the shapefile, and filling them with data. The thing I dislike most about Epi Info -- the map projection can't be changed, and the one it uses is really ugly.