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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: RetiredNow who wrote (248398)8/31/2005 11:55:13 PM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 1573851
 
1) it's $ given per GDP! The U.S. GDP is huge. So our absolute $ aid probably dwarfs the aid from most, if not all, other countries.

Why do you object to normalization? If anything, I would expect higher GDP/person (such as the USA) to be even more generous. So if anything I'd normalize twice, once for GDP and again for population.

The other valid approach I can think of would be to multiply the aid given by other countries by the ratio of PPP GDP/USD GDP. One could then normalize by GDP & pop as well.
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