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UNDP, Human Development Report 1998 (Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998)
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Mark Brady 27th June 2005 |
The denominator is military spending and not GDP? As the country who has paid the nation defense budgets of all of Western Europe for the past 50 years, allowing those countries to do other things for their own citizens and others, we object. |
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Brandon 19th September 2005 |
If I am to interpret "American citizens" as the taxpayers, and "aid" as foreign aid, I found a site that says the US gives over half what the next leading donor is. The statistic is buried in a bunch of charts talking about per capita donors, but in absolute terms, the US government gives much more than any other nation http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp |
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John 16th October 2005 |
The USA gives about 3 cent of each 100$ GDP. (read Jeffrey D. Sachs book The End of Poverty.) The rest is military "aid" for countries like Egypt etc. Denmark is the top aid giver measured in % of GDP. that is why they top this list as well, not that they use less on military expenses! http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_eco_aid_don_gdp |
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Flavio (Los Angeles) 27th June 2006 |
Getting back on topic, John is correct. The US gives about 3% of GDP to charity. The difference is that this chart counts only government aid and not individual aid. |
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