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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: coug who wrote (6891)	2/9/2003 10:56:08 PM
From: Just_Observing	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

And we talked so much as a family unit, the extended family I mean, about the worldwide condition, the human condition You will be happy to know that the Scandinavian countries are the largest donors of foreign aid per unit of GNP. How do U.S. aid levels compare with those of other countries? The U.S. foreign-aid budget as a percentage of gross national product (GNP) ranks last among the world’s wealthiest countries (at about 0.1 percent). In raw dollars, however, the United States is now the world’s top donor of economic aid, although for more than a decade it was second to Japan, which is far smaller and has been beset by economic woes. In 2001, the United States gave $10.9 billion, Japan $9.7 billion, Germany $4.9 billion, the United Kingdom $4.7 billion, and France $4.3 billion. As a percentage of GNP, however, the top donors were Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Sweden. The tiny Netherlands (pop. 16 million) gave $3.2 billion in 2001—almost a third of what America contributed. terrorismanswers.com The Netherlands gave about 6 times more than the US per unit of GNP.