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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (28644)	6/5/2004 9:51:15 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

The second annual CGD/FP Commitment to Development Index ranks 21 rich nations on how their aid, trade, investment, migration, environment, security, and technology policies help poor countries... foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com Don’t the United States and Japan give more aid to developing countries than any other rich country? How can they rank so poorly on aid? Why do small countries such as Denmark and the Netherlands rank so well? <<...The index assesses policy effort rather than impact. For example, the United States and Japan give more aid in absolute terms, but they are among the least generous when the size of their economies is taken into account. The top-scoring countries give a lot of aid in proportion to gross domestic product and/or have relatively low trade barriers and/or generate relatively little pollution, and so on...>>