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Old 06-24-2010, 10:46 AM
JaVeDK JaVeDK is offline
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The flaw with that statistic is, that it includes aid to countries like Isreal, which is not an "underdeveloped country" thus distorting the numbers. Aid like that is not a result of the altruistic goodwill of the USA, but merely a way to preserve own interests / protect investments.

Still if you sort and rank the numbers from http://webnet.oecd.org/oda2009/ by ODA/GNI the USA is still at the bottom with quite a difference in % to the top countries and far from the UN ODA target of 0.7% of GNI.
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