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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: How USA-Today Lies (4)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.030653.12541@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Total official development aid as a percentage of gross national
- product, and percentage of aid going to least developed
- countries (LDCs), 1989:
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- DEVELOPMENT AID
- COUNTRY (% OF GNP) PERCENT FOR LDCS
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- Norway 1.04 39 <===============
- Sweden .97 30
- Denmark .94 42
- Netherlands .94 30
- France(26) .78 20
- Finland .63 48 <===============
- Belgium .46 30
- Canada .44 37
- Italy .42 35
- Germany .41 27
- Australia .38 23
- Japan .32 18
- United Kingdom .31 33
- Switzerland .30 36
- Austria .23 22
- New Zealand .22 12
- Ireland .17 38
- United States .15 13 <===============
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- Source: United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report (New
- York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 187.
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- We're Number 6 in private philanthropy for
- developing countries.
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- "Like the U.S. government, the American people are far less forthcoming
- with charity than their counterparts in other nations. While WE'RE
- NUMBER ONE in real wealth and private consumption, we're only Number 6
- in philanthropic donations to developing nations in per capita terms.
- The Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, and Germany give the most per
- capita, with Sweden Contributing fourteen dollars per person, five
- dollars more than the average American. The Italians seem particularly
- cheap, given their means: they give less than fifty cents per head
- privately.
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- Private voluntary aid to developing countries per capita, 1988:
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- PRIVATE AID PRIVATE AID
- COUNTRY PER CAPITA COUNTRY PER CAPITA
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- Sweden $14.00 United Kingdom 4.00
- Norway 13.00 Australia 3.00
- Switzerland 13.00 Austria 3.00
- Netherlands 12.00 Finland 3.00
- Germany 11.00 France 2.00
- United States 9.00 New Zealand 2.00
- Canada 8.00 Belgium 1.00
- Ireland 6.00 Japan 1.00
- Denmark 4.00 Italy <.50
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- Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United
- States 1991 (Washington, D.C.: USGPO, 1991), p. 863. Original: Organization
- for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris). unpublished data.
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- _We're Number One, Where America Stands -- and Falls -- in the New
- World Order_ by Andrew L Shapiro.
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- New York, May 1992, Vintage Books, a division of Random House.
- $10 paperback. ISBN 0-679-73893-2
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- [Transcribed by jhwoodar@well.sf.ca.us (Joe Woodard)]
-
- ``America is becoming a land of private greed and public squalor.
- This book is an indispensable road map through the wreckage. The
- facts it reveals will startle you. They may depress you. But
- ideally they'll fire you up to help rebuild this nation.''
-
- -Robert B. Reich, author of The Work of Nations
-
- [And now, future Clinton Labor Secretary,
- we might add. --HB]
-