Swiss representation to OECD, Paris. © 2009 délégation suisse près l'OCDE

Bern, Switzerland/Paris, France (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland’s official assistance to developing countries obtains high marks in general in an evaluation by the OECD’s committee on development aid. The committee notes that Swiss official development aid (ODA) was 0.42 percent of GDP in 2009, still short of the 0.7 percent recommended by the UN, but 6 percent higher than in 2008. Swiss ODA is praised for its concentration on the poorest countries, and on multilateral agencies, but the committee’s report notes that Switzerland is still trying to do too many things in too many different places with its ODA.

The report’s findings are one of several points made in a bi-monthly report on OECD activities published 14 December as they pertain to Switzerland and written by the Swiss delegation to the OECD in Paris. Other points in the report include OECD countries’ energy consumption, Latin America’s economic perspectives for 2010, and the aging of the public sector workforces.

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