Historically, development funding has been perceived as the preserve of a relatively small number of donors, such as the G-7 countries. But increasingly, national donors are emerging outside that group. One of the main areas for growth is in Asia, where a number of countries are making significant contributions to development funding.
Other than Japan, the only Asian G-7 member, nine Asian countries have provided information on their official development assistance spending to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Between them, they contributed around 12% of all national official development assistance in 2019. We looked to find out who they are.
The nine Asian donors on the OECD list include: