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Date: 08 Jan 93 16:43 PST
Subject: How USA-Today Lies (4) -- addendum
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From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: How USA-Today Lies (4) -- addendum


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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 

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 

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. 

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. 

Private voluntary aid to developing countries per capita, 1988: 

               PRIVATE AID                  PRIVATE AID 
COUNTRY        PER CAPITA   COUNTRY         PER CAPITA 

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 

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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