For aid flows, not automatically subject to these disciplines, it is difficult to be as effective.

But the new account is already altering traditional aid flows.

Gross domestic product in 2000 and 2001 grew by around 5 percent, despite a decline in aid flows.

He has also highlighted the challenges that a scaling-up of aid flows will pose for low-income countries.

Short-term aid flows will replace some of that lost economic activity.

It is widely used as an indicator of international aid flow.

Not only is there lower political visibility, but Congress is cutting aid flows.

This means that Canadian aid flows will have to respect the priorities of its beneficiaries - the people living in poverty.

The goals have succeeded in mobilising political will, increasing aid flows and helping governments to focus on human development.

Rich and poor countries are linked in many ways; thus the Index looks beyond standard comparisons of foreign aid flows.