Help with research January 22, 2002 12:33 AM Subscribe
I was thinking about making a post that would compare and contrast US foreign aid to Europe after WWII to Afghanistan and Yugoslavia today. It also got me on the trail of the annual US foreign aid bill that passes each year. However it was next to impossible to find a breakdown of exactly who gets what each year and what the money is spent on. I consider myself a decent Googler, but I'm stumped. Any help out there? Thanks!
And here’s the New Yorker Financial Page on why a Marshall Plan for Afghanistan is a bad idea. He suggests a Mozambique plan. (That may not be the best option judging from Mozambican hostility toward the IMF for, among other things, ruining one of their agricultural industries.)
You could also quiz people on how much they think the US sends in foreign aid.
“Since the late 1940s, when more than 15% of every U.S. tax dollar was sent overseas to help rebuild war-torn Europe, the share of the federal budget devoted to foreign aid has declined steadily. This year it was $15 billion, less than 1% of the government's $1.9 trillion budget. The amount spent on feeding, housing and educating the world's poorest citizens, which many experts see as the most effective way to win goodwill, is even less. More than one-third of foreign aid is earmarked for military and law enforcement operations.”
Here’s a sad statement on the issue:
“Congress has chipped away at the foreign aid budget for two decades, leaving the United States near the bottom in foreign aid spending by industrial nations when measured as a share of their economies.”
posted by raaka at 4:19 AM on January 22, 2002
You could also quiz people on how much they think the US sends in foreign aid.
“Since the late 1940s, when more than 15% of every U.S. tax dollar was sent overseas to help rebuild war-torn Europe, the share of the federal budget devoted to foreign aid has declined steadily. This year it was $15 billion, less than 1% of the government's $1.9 trillion budget. The amount spent on feeding, housing and educating the world's poorest citizens, which many experts see as the most effective way to win goodwill, is even less. More than one-third of foreign aid is earmarked for military and law enforcement operations.”
Here’s a sad statement on the issue:
“Congress has chipped away at the foreign aid budget for two decades, leaving the United States near the bottom in foreign aid spending by industrial nations when measured as a share of their economies.”
posted by raaka at 4:19 AM on January 22, 2002
I think that if you have to create a post to ask for assistance to create a post, your tail is wagging your dog. Or cat.
But, now, if I created to a separate thread to make this point, that would be OK. But I won't.
posted by ParisParamus at 4:52 AM on January 22, 2002
But, now, if I created to a separate thread to make this point, that would be OK. But I won't.
posted by ParisParamus at 4:52 AM on January 22, 2002
a post that would compare and contrast...
Does this mean that a Metafilter post is now recognized as credit by some high school social studies teacher? Cool!
posted by ParisParamus at 6:05 AM on January 22, 2002
Does this mean that a Metafilter post is now recognized as credit by some high school social studies teacher? Cool!
posted by ParisParamus at 6:05 AM on January 22, 2002
ngress has chipped away at the foreign aid budget for two decades, leaving the United States near the bottom in foreign aid spending by industrial nations when measured as a share of their economies.
this is a way of hiding the fact that no other country even comes close to the actual dollar amount that the US gives in foreign aid each year.
posted by Mick at 7:01 AM on January 22, 2002
this is a way of hiding the fact that no other country even comes close to the actual dollar amount that the US gives in foreign aid each year.
posted by Mick at 7:01 AM on January 22, 2002
No prizes for guessing which country gets most aid per year (selecting all countries on the USAID Greenbook site for 1999) - Israel.
this is a way of hiding the fact that no other country even comes close to the actual dollar amount that the US gives in foreign aid each year.
But that's not per person. Given that people on average are richer in the USA, you might expect per person that they give more - in fact, the USA (and the UK) are clearly second league players for per capita aid in this table.
posted by andrew cooke at 5:27 AM on January 24, 2002
this is a way of hiding the fact that no other country even comes close to the actual dollar amount that the US gives in foreign aid each year.
But that's not per person. Given that people on average are richer in the USA, you might expect per person that they give more - in fact, the USA (and the UK) are clearly second league players for per capita aid in this table.
posted by andrew cooke at 5:27 AM on January 24, 2002
andrew, so what? The United States subsidizes the rest of the world, disproportionally creating the wealth and stabilizing the world so that other countries can give what they do. Moreover, its extremely unclear whether aid can do much more than feed starving refugees.
posted by ParisParamus at 12:40 PM on January 24, 2002
posted by ParisParamus at 12:40 PM on January 24, 2002
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posted by nikzhowz at 1:05 AM on January 22, 2002