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To: E. T. who wrote (4105)	12/17/2003 11:07:45 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7834

FYI - I found the same figures mentioned in several other articles: Foreign Aid Bush Shift on Foreign Aid Strengthens U.S. Position at Summit Paul Blustein Washington Post, March 16, 2002, Page A20 On the Eve Of Latin Trip, Bush Ties Aid To Reforms Elisabeth Bumiller New York Times, March 20, 2002, Page A7 Losing Faith: Globalization Proves Disappointing Joseph Kahn New York Times, March 20, 2002, Page A6 These articles discuss the summit on global poverty in Monterrey, Mexico. The Post article asserts that President Bush is likely to be warmly received based on his decision to increase development aid by a total of $5 billion over the years 2004-2006. The article refers to this as a 14 percent increase. It would be more appropriate to adjust for projected inflation, which would reduce the size of the proposed increase to 7 percent. Measured as a share of GDP, the increase is large enough to keep U.S. foreign aid approximately constant at 0.1 percent of GDP, about one-fourth the level of aid provided by European nations.

To: E. T. who wrote (4105)	12/17/2003 11:15:22 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 7834

Less than 0.1% of GDP for USA, EU on the average appr 0.5%, with 0.7% as a goal. (excluding military development aid, as well as Israel) Anyone should be able to find these numbers which are published yearly and debated much more often, even in USA. Try the Brookings Institute or any of the others. Btw, that 0.12% is not approved by most as "third world aid". Norway, if I remember right, is somewhere around 2.7% but a kind of special case. --- The second issue is intimately connected with the first. Recently, the Center for Global Development, in collaboration with Foreign Policy magazine, issued its first annual “Commitment to Development Index,” created with assistance from the Brookings Institution, the Institute for International Economics, and the Migration Policy Institute, as well as the financial support of the Rockefeller Foundation. The data are striking. Of the 21 rich nations analyzed, the one that ranked at almost the very bottom (Number 20 out of 21 countries) in terms of assistance to the developing world was — who else? — the global hegemon. Yes, the US received a score of 2.6 out of a possible 9 for its commitment to poor countries. (Only Japan scored lower.) Among other things, the US is the least generous country in the world in terms of foreign aid, giving only 0.12 percent of GDP, while Denmark and the Netherlands give more than six times as much. ---