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Faboro Babajide O.
28th September 2009 |
In this graph,it shows USA has more economic development than the other countries. |
Sunil Deshpande (Saswad, Pune, India)
6th November 2008 |
I Started my business of packaging Industry and wire drawing plant with wirenails manafacturing unit in 1989 with monthly turnover of Rs.12000 to Rs.17000000 in 2003. Created property worth Rs.15000000.
Now both the industries are in problem due to loss. Bank libilities increased and now I am in very serious problems. Need help to come out from the situation.
Any soluation from you to me ?
Thankyou,
Sunil Deshpande
optimum_properties@yahoo.co.in
cell No. 09822408792 |
M
1st June 2007 |
This data for Total Economic Aid by Donor is out of date. After reviewing the CIA factbook, some of these values are very old.
For example, Australia is shown as giving $894 million on this site but that was for the FY99/00.
For more information, see this site https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2062.html |
John
7th October 2006 |
To blame the US for everything is stupid, just as stupid as saying it can do no wrong. So here's two points.
1. The data here is wrong on the USA. The main site for tracking aid is the OECD's DAC dataset. Here's a quote from the OECD:
"In 2003, the United States increased its ODA by 16.9% in real terms to $15.8 billion in 2003, representing 0.14% of its GNI. US bilateral aid jumped by $3.9 billion, including $2 billion for Iraq, partly offset by a $1.4 billion fall in US multilateral aid due to the timing of capital subscriptions to international financial institutions." So US aid is higher than listed here, but also lower in per capita terms than almost any other wealthy nation.
http://www.oecd.org/document/22/0,2340,en_2649_201185_31504022_1_1_1_1,00.html
2. The idea that Americans are generous is neither wrong nor right. They give substantial amounts to churches and private charities, but to include $18 billion in remittances (almost all is immigrants sending money home to their families) in the category of foreign aid seems baldly disengenous. That is more than half of the $35 billion in private aid cited above. We need equivalent estimates from other major donor nations to make such claims.
The point is really that we can all do better, and must. This is a troubled world that needs us. |
Jana (Virginia)
28th June 2006 |
According to the OECD chart for figures (found here: http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/34/27/36418598.pdf0, from which this site ostensibly derives its figures, we can see that the US ODA for 2005 was over 27,000,000,000. The ODA for 2004 was over 19,000,000,000. However, the US is not even listed above.
Why is this the case? If this site values accuracy, it will correct this discrepancy. |
Phillipp
12th February 2006 |
HA! Shane the US the most generous in the world. The governments only generous gifts are military aircraft, when an earthquake or Tsunami occurs so that it can benefit by having more forces distributed around the world. E.g Pakistan, wanted money when that earthquake struck. NOT US Air craft. US make over 3 trillion dollars a year! And yet they are too insecure to be generous. |
JT
3rd January 2006 |
According to the site, the U.S. gave less than $0 in total, as South Korea gave $0 total and is still on the list. Perhaps we are receiving aid from LCD's? Although I'm outraged, I'd like to know where my share of the check from France is. |
Tore
20th December 2005 |
People from the US have to remember the importance of per capita(person) giving, and not the total sum. Also donations are hard to compare since some countries like to control more of what they define as aid. (an example here would be aid to combat aids, while forbidding promotion of condoms). Sorry if it applies to the US, but I couldn't think of anything else. Also, there is a difference between giving food and giving money for food, since giving food stimulates your own economy etc.. Also the US has a nasty tendency to give foreign military aid, meaning loanes to by US weapons. And if you include those figures into total aid figures, they would be missleading.
Anyway the moral is, that being generous is about giving so you feel it. If bill gates gives 1 million $ is he really being generous? If I gave 10000$ I'd be extremely generous. |
Velomad
9th December 2005 |
I don't know the facts I'll be the first to admit. But these facts come from the CIA fact book. As it is an publication issued by the United States and presumably funded by the United States, I suspect they are not down grading the position of United States in aid funding unless the facts are unarguable. |
Paul
9th December 2005 |
Great we give out 35 billion in private aid and 22 billion in official aid hurray for us and wait how much money to fund our little adventure in Iraq...gee well that's only 5.8 billion A MONTH!!! Glad to see we have our priority straight. Lets not talk about the altruistic nature of our country until the aid we give is at least equal to expenditures on empire building. |
Hernandez
6th December 2005 |
Something is missing here. Our aid in 2004 war over 19 billion, and the USA is not even on this list, though we donated over twice the "most generous" contribution. |
Herb Marcuse
29th November 2005 |
WRONG! The US only gives 10 cents per person per day in private contributions. Coupled with the 15 cents per person per day in government aid, the US aid level is still is no where near other OECD members who give up to 99 cents per person per day http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/3647 |
grum
19th November 2005 |
think again
But while Americans do indeed give more of their own money to overseas aid programs than most western donors, the amount remains by and large a small fraction of what other countries give through their governments.
According to the CGD study, Americans spend the equivalent of 5 cents a day on private donations to overseas aid programs, bringing public and private aid to a per capita average of 18 cents a day. This puts the U.S. well ahead of Italy, Spain, Portugal, New Zealand, and Greece; but it still lags behind Canada and Austria; and far behind the most generous donors--including Norway, Switzerland, and Ireland--which give more in private donations per capita, as well as government aid, than Americans.
"In terms of aid given per person, the U.S. is one of the least generous rich countries," said David Roodman, a CGD Fellow.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0104-13.htm |
John Galt
2nd October 2005 |
You forgot the top giver.
From a National review article by Bruce Bartlett - According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, in 2003, the world’s major countries gave $108.5 billion in combined foreign aid. Of this, the U.S. contributed $37.8 billion, or 35 percent, of the total. The next largest foreign-aid contributor was the Netherlands, which gave $12.2 billion, following two years in which it was actually a net recipient of foreign aid.
Former U.S. Agency for International Development official Carol Adelman attempted to calculate a total of all private foreign aid in 2000 in a 2003 Foreign Affairs magazine article. She found that private foreign aid greatly exceeded that provided by the U.S. government. Official aid came to $22.6 billion that year, but private aid came to $35.1 billion, including $18 billion in remittances, $6.6 billion from private voluntary organizations, $3.4 billion in aid from churches, $3 billion from foundations, $2.8 from corporations, and $1.3 billion from universities.
In short, the charge of stinginess is unfounded. The U.S. carries much of the world on its back, providing other nations with security, aid, and much of their investment and income. It also pays for a fourth of all the salaries of U.N. bureaucrats.
http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_bartlett/bartlett200501031119.asp |
Stephen
1st August 2005 |
We must be careful, when making comparisons, to compare apples to apples, and oranges to oranges. A few more recent facts are in order:
http://www.hudson.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=publication_details&id=3712
Also read the 8 page white paper they did, which is linked to at the bottom of that short article, and you'll understand just how incredibly generous the USA is! |
Michael
22nd July 2005 |
Completely misleading stat... Private donations alone from the USA completely swamp any aid giving from the top 10 countries. The difference in the USA is we allow individuals to make their choice of contributions to private, secular, non-profit or religous organizations. Our Churches - all denominations completely SWAMP all giving by all nations.
The Catholic Church alone spent more money on the poor than any nation on this list in truly helping the poor!
Lets toss in the major denominations of Methodist, Baptist, Evangelical and you have literraly BILLIONS pouring out of this country - feeding, clothing, sheltering, medicating, educating, and protecting MILLIONS of people around the world!!!
You have utterly no clue what you are talking about with regards to the stats. They only represent specific reports of governmental avenues.
More understandable to what Jackie? To the World Trade Tower bombings? What kind of idiotic statements are these?
The only propaganda here is the crud your buying into with regards to UN propaganda.
Out country gave 100's of Millions to the PLO and for what? Talk about a reality check! The PLO, Yasser Arafat walked away with 100's of millions of dollars, his wife alone having an estimated 20 million and for what? For the betterment of the Palestinian people?
What a joke... wake up!!!! |
Shane
8th July 2005 |
AS USUAL.... everyone forgets that most aid from the US comes from religious, charitable and private donations, not the government. When you include all aid, including indirect aid (we spend millions on our military to help distribute aid from other countries - which is NOT included in these figures), the US is the MOST GENEROUS NATION IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
Get a grip, people! In Europe, the government takes care of everything. In the US, the PEOPLE take care of everything.
Add ALL AID, and you will see. The US gives more per capita than any other country -- BAR NONE!
You are swallowing the 'blame America' crowd's bile against America. Wise Up!
In total, the US gives the most. Check the FACTS and you will see. |
Jackie
24th May 2005 |
These statistics are what make the events that have transpired in the US over the past few years much more understandable to me. People don't know, and don't take the time to look past the propaganda. Just because the US is number two on the list for total monetary donations, does not mean it's extraordinarily generous.When the comparison is of aid as a percentage of our GDP, the US comes in 22nd with 0.1%; Denmark gives 1.01% |
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