With all the tsunami aid talk

[holiday]

I could've sworn some people were saying that if you add in something the usa is actually on the bottom of world's most giving countries?

I'm just trying to debunk the "Usa gives the most money out to other countries so they should bow down to us" retorhic.

[Spazito]

1. Here you go...

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But both on a per capita basis and as a percentage of the nation's wealth, America's emergency relief in Asia and development aid to poor countries actually ranks at the bottom of the list of developed nations, some of the world's top economists and analysts of international development aid said yesterday.

The world's Asian relief effort -- the largest in history -- and the enormity of the disaster have put into sharp focus an intensifying debate over what it means for a country to be generous: how much should wealthy nations pledge for relief from natural disasters, and how much should those governments donate for development in poorer nations?

As of yesterday, the amount the United States has pledged is eclipsed by the $96 million promised by Britain, a country with one-fifth the population, and by the $75 million vowed by Sweden, which amounts to $8.40 for each of its 9 million people. Denmark's pledge of $15.6 million amounts to roughly $2.90 per capita.

The US donation is 12 cents per capita.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2004/12/31/global_analysts_dispute_perceived_us_generosity?mode=PF

[holiday]

3. thanks exactly what i was talking about! eom

[Kellanved]

2. here

Although the private numbers are outdated (the German private donations are now in the $1 billion ballpark, the whole EU far beyond that)


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-011205schroeder_lat,0,778711.story?coll=la-home-world