What Do We Mean by Under-Resourced Context?

Abstract

This chapter considers what is mean by the phrase under-resourced context. It examines how three organizations—the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the World Bank, and the United Nations—classify countries in terms of their resources, both financial and non-financial. The chapter considers the effects of war on education. The OECD has a Development Assistance Committee, which draws up an official list of countries and territories eligible to receive Official Development Assistance (ODA). The OECD has four main categories of country eligible to receive ODA, starting with “Least Developed Countries,” under which are listed nearly 50 countries, including Afghanistan, Mali, and Zambia. The “Costs of War” is an on-going project, started in 2010, run by the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs at Brown University in the United States. It focuses on “the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the related violence in Pakistan and Syria”.