From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 05:30:59 MDT
Dan:
>wouldn't another gauge of helping others be the results? In other
>words, if X gives away a higher %age of its wealth to charity than
>Y, but X gives to charities that actually make people worse off than
>Y, then Y might actually be helping things out more than X is.
>(Trade and peace have much better results, I bet, than international
>welfare. I would also note that a lot of foreign aid is actually
>internal redistribution.
Dear Dan,
If the Center for Global Development doesn't already have a plan for
this kind of results evaluation, then I suggest you email them your
letter that you posted here. If they are smart, they will consider
it.
There's a web site,
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http://www.cgdev.org/rankingtherich/home.html
Ranking the Rich:
The First Annual CGD/FP Commitment to Development Index
The CGD/FP Commitment to Development Index ranks 21 of the world's
richest countries based on their dedication to policies that benefit
the 5 billion people living in poorer nations worldwide. Moving
beyond all-too-common assessments of foreign aid flows, the CGD/FP
Commitment to Development Index also considers countries' openness
to developing-country exports and performance in peacekeeping,
investment, migration, and environmental policies. The Index rewards
generous and selective aid giving, hospitable immigration policies,
sizable contributions to peacekeeping operations, and hefty foreign
direct investment. It penalizes financial assistance to corrupt
regimes and policies that harm shared environmental resources.
The Index builds upon contributions from scholars at the Center for
Global Development, the Brookings Institution, the Institute for
International Economics, and the Migration Policy Institute and
benefits from the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation.
The Index is featured in the May/June issue of Foreign Policy. Read
the full article.
The background papers and data sets upon which the Index is built
are available in the Details section of the site.
Index highlights: Why an index? | Racing to the top | Signs of
change
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with links for ** comments ** and to join a mailing list, even.
Apparently this ranking program is something they intend
to maintain and perhaps pursue further.
Amara
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