Mark S. Holden wrote:

I don't know if it's still accurate, but this web site:

http://www.aglimmerofhope.org/philanthrophy/newsweek_02_02.htm

has a quote from a February 2002 Newsweek article that says private American donors give 2.1% of our GNP to foreign aid each year. This is in addition to what our government gives. Here's a quote I like from the article:

"No nation comes even remotely close to the U.S. on these things," says Scott Walker of the Philanthropy Roundtable. "If you're in Sweden or France, it's something the government is supposed to do. If you were in England, it is the nobility. Americans
don't think it's enough to say, 'I gave at the office with taxes'."


00.14 percent. Nowhere near what you quoted.


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In 2003, Norway spent $308 per capita on foreign aid, compared to
$23.76 for the United States.

http://www.fsmitha.com/world/norway.html
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Stupid subscription site:

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Almost a third of the way into the program (United Nations Millennium
Declaration which we signed), the latest available figures show that
the percentage of United States income going to poor countries remains
near rock bottom: 0.14 percent of GNP). Britain is at 0.34 percent,
and France at 0.41 percent. (Norway and Sweden, to no one's surprise,
are already exceeding the goal, at 0.92 percent and 0.79 percent.)

The government spends $450 billion annually on the military, and $15
billion on development help for poor countries, a 30-to-1 ratio that,
as Mr. Sachs puts it, shows how the nation has become "all war and no
peace in our foreign policy."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/23/op...?oref=login&th
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