Search4Dev. 2.0. Development finance. The Hudson Institute recently published figures for the 2011 Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances, which AidData has posted on its Research Datasets page. The Hudson Institute's dataset contains figures for total official and estimated private flows from 1991-2009, including remittances, private investment, and philanthropy. It also provides bilateral remittance data for 2010. Here we briefly review the data to track overall trends in global development finance over the last twenty years. The results are provided below: The data for private flows, which include private investment, private philanthropy, and remittances, are derived from the Hudson Institute’s report, while the data for bilateral and multilateral flows are derived from an AidData.org export. The most striking overall trend is the increasing role of private flows in global development finance.
At the same time, one must interpret the graph above with caution. This last point merits special attention. NGO database » CIDIN - Radboud University.