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  <title>Disasters > Central Emergency Response Fund > Contributors > Pledged</title>
  <link>http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/dis_cen_eme_res_fun_con_ple</link>
  <description>&lt;b&gt;Definition:&lt;/b&gt; <br />
&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Source:&lt;/b&gt; Wikipedia: &lt;a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Emergency_Response_Fund'&gt;Central Emergency Response Fund&lt;/a&gt;<br />
&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Number of countries:&lt;/b&gt; 28</description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Disasters > Hurricane Katrina > International aid response</title>
  <link>http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/dis_hur_kat_int_aid_res</link>
  <description>&lt;b&gt;Definition:&lt;/b&gt; International response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Source:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=http://www.wikipedia.org&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href=http://edition.cnn.com/&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Number of countries:&lt;/b&gt; 98</description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Disasters > Tsunami aid recipients (per $ GDP)</title>
  <link>http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/dis_tsu_aid_rec_pergdp</link>
  <description>&lt;b&gt;Definition:&lt;/b&gt; Amount of aid (in US Dollars) recieved for Tsunami relief efforts. Total funds committed. Per $ GDP figures expressed per 1,000 $ gross domestic product.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Source:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=http://www.oecd.org/&gt;OECD&lt;/a&gt;, October 2005.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Number of countries:&lt;/b&gt; 7</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Disasters > Tsunami aid recipients (per capita)</title>
  <link>http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/dis_tsu_aid_rec_percap</link>
  <description>&lt;b&gt;Definition:&lt;/b&gt; Amount of aid (in US Dollars) recieved for Tsunami relief efforts. Total funds committed. Per capita figures expressed per 1 population.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Source:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=http://www.oecd.org/&gt;OECD&lt;/a&gt;, October 2005.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Number of countries:&lt;/b&gt; 9</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Disasters > Tsunami aid recipients</title>
  <link>http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/dis_tsu_aid_rec</link>
  <description>&lt;b&gt;Definition:&lt;/b&gt; Amount of aid (in US Dollars) recieved for Tsunami relief efforts. Total funds committed.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Source:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=http://www.oecd.org/&gt;OECD&lt;/a&gt;, October 2005.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Number of countries:&lt;/b&gt; 9</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Disasters > Funds committed to emergency Tsunami aid (per $ GDP)</title>
  <link>http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/dis_fun_com_to_eme_aid_pergdp</link>
  <description>&lt;b&gt;Definition:&lt;/b&gt; Amount of funds (in US Dollars) committed to emergency aid. Emergency aid commitments refers to the amount of money governments have officially contributed and have quickly dispersed for emergency Tsunami relief. This amount is taken out of the total aid commitment (&lt;a href=http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/dis_fun_com_to_aid&gt;click here to view the total Tsunami aid commitment statistic&lt;/a&gt;). Per $ GDP figures expressed per 1,000 $ gross domestic product.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Source:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=http://www.oecd.org/&gt;OECD&lt;/a&gt;, October 2005&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Number of countries:&lt;/b&gt; 22</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Disasters > Funds committed to emergency Tsunami aid (per capita)</title>
  <link>http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/dis_fun_com_to_eme_aid_percap</link>
  <description>&lt;b&gt;Definition:&lt;/b&gt; Amount of funds (in US Dollars) committed to emergency aid. Emergency aid commitments refers to the amount of money governments have officially contributed and have quickly dispersed for emergency Tsunami relief. This amount is taken out of the total aid commitment (&lt;a href=http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/dis_fun_com_to_aid&gt;click here to view the total Tsunami aid commitment statistic&lt;/a&gt;). Per capita figures expressed per 1 population.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Source:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=http://www.oecd.org/&gt;OECD&lt;/a&gt;, October 2005&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Number of countries:&lt;/b&gt; 22</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Disasters > Funds commited to Tsunami aid (per $ GDP)</title>
  <link>http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/dis_fun_com_to_aid_pergdp</link>
  <description>&lt;b&gt;Definition:&lt;/b&gt; Total amount of funds commited to Tsunami aid. Fund commitments refer to the amount of money governments have officially set aside for Tsunami relief.  Funds pledged (&lt;a href=/graph-T/dis_tsu_fun_ple&gt;click here to view the statistic&lt;/a&gt;) refers to the amount countries have publicly announced they would contribute. Hence, pledges can often fall far short of the final commitment. Per $ GDP figures expressed per 100 $ gross domestic product.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Source:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=http://www.oecd.org&gt;OECD&lt;/a&gt;, October, 2005.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Number of countries:&lt;/b&gt; 22</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Disasters > Funds commited to Tsunami aid (per capita)</title>
  <link>http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/dis_fun_com_to_aid_percap</link>
  <description>&lt;b&gt;Definition:&lt;/b&gt; Total amount of funds commited to Tsunami aid. Fund commitments refer to the amount of money governments have officially set aside for Tsunami relief.  Funds pledged (&lt;a href=/graph-T/dis_tsu_fun_ple&gt;click here to view the statistic&lt;/a&gt;) refers to the amount countries have publicly announced they would contribute. Hence, pledges can often fall far short of the final commitment. Per capita figures expressed per 1 population.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Source:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=http://www.oecd.org&gt;OECD&lt;/a&gt;, October, 2005.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Number of countries:&lt;/b&gt; 22</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Disasters > Tsunami aid commitments as a percent of pledges</title>
  <link>http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/dis_aid_com_as_a_per_of_ple</link>
  <description>&lt;b&gt;Definition:&lt;/b&gt; Percentages of Tsunami aid committed out of the aid originally pledged. For example, if a percentage on this statistic is above 50%, this means the country in question contributed over 50% of the amount of Tsunami aid it originally promised.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Source:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=http://www.oecd.org/&gt;OECD&lt;/a&gt;, October, 2005.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Number of countries:&lt;/b&gt; 16</description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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