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Foreign Aid: Think of it More as a Dating Site

McLeod Group Blog, June 24, 2015

If you’re in favour of foreign aid, there is good news: Development aid from the world’s industrialized countries remained steady at US$135.2 billion in 2014, after an all-time high in 2013.

If you think aid should go to the poorest countries, however, there is bad news: They only got 28% of the total, a drop of 16% in a single year.

Among OECD member countries, the ten least generous—all at less than 0.2% of gross national ...

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