OECD aid chief warns against cuts to int’l relief amid rising global crises

International development faces its most serious test in decades, as leading donor nations cut back official aid budgets even as climate disasters, regional conflicts and health emergencies fuel rising demand for assistance worldwide. Carsten Staur, chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), urged global players to act quickly to reverse this trend. “We need to turn this around. This is not an acceptable situation, given all the problems that the world is in. It’s not easy to fill it again, or to take the downward trajectory and make it positive, but we need to do that,” Staur said during an interview with The Korea Times, in Seoul on Monday. The OECD DAC is an international forum of 33 major donor countries. It is responsible for monitoring official development assistance (ODA), setting standards for development cooperation and conducting peer reviews of member nations. Korea joined DAC in 2010. Staur, a Danish diplomat with extensive experience in multilateral diplomacy, has chaired the committee since March 2023. According to OECD data, ODA from DAC member countrieWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times