Re: some U.S. observations and notes

From: Kai Becker (kmb@cameron.kn-bremen.de)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 12:38:18 MST


Non-member submission from [Kai Becker <kmb@cameron.kn-bremen.de>]

Am Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2001 16:32 schrieb Mike Lorrey:
> Israel Afghanistan Egypt
> %/capita GDP supplied by aid: <0.85% >1.5% <0.66%
>
> So it seems that the US was providing almost twice as much aid to the
> Afghan people as to the people of Israel

Wrong. There's no debate that Israel is richer than Afghanistan (5.25 times
the GDP with only on forth (27%) of the people, 23 times the GDP per
person). You still haven't answered, why a country 5 times wealthier
receives 11.8 times more develepoment aid per person. Why give much more
money to the rich?

   Kai

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