Hello and welcome to an NZADDs email update,
In our last update I analysed what was in this year’s budget for New Zealand aid. I now have GNI data, so I can also calculate how New Zealand performs on the standard measure of aid generosity: ODA/GNI.
You can see the results in this chart:
Budget 2023
Hello and welcome to an NZADDs update,
Just after 2pm today I took a step back from my computer, did some yoga, put on my favourite CD of dolphin songs, lit some incense, and tried to find my happy place.
Yes, that’s right, it’s budget day, which means I’ve spent the afternoon exhuming spreadsheets, squinting at PDFs, and muttering in an exasperated way at my computer, “even the Australians release their aid budgets…”.
The incense has long wafted away, the dolphin CD has come to an end, but here’s the state of New Zealand’s aid spending.
This coming financial year New Zealand plans to spend just over NZ$1.4 billion on foreign aid. That, as you can see in the chart below, is a big leap from what Treasury thinks we will spend in the current financial year.*
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