| US donations to Africa outstrip Europe by 15 to 1 ^ |
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| Posted by bayourod On News/Activism ^ 07/02/2005 11:41:10 PM CDT · 30 replies · 521+ views Scotsman.com ^ | Frasier Nelson PRIVATE American citizens donated almost 15 times more to the developing world than their European counterparts, research reveals this weekend ahead of the G8 summit. Private US donors also handed over far more aid than the federal government in Washington, revealing that America is much more generous to Africa and poor countries than is claimed by the Make Poverty History and Live 8 campaigns. Church collections, philanthropists and company-giving amounted to $22bn a year, according to a study by the Hudson Institute think-tank, easily more than the $16.3bn in overseas development sent by the US government. American churches, synagogues and... |
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| Bill Clinton: Americans Stingy with Foreign Aid ^ |
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| Posted by wagglebee On News/Activism ^ 07/02/2005 11:46:50 AM CDT · 116 replies · 1,248+ views NewsMax ^ | 7/2/05 | Carl Limbacher On the eve of the G-8 Summit, ex-president Bill Clinton is telling European audiences that the U.S. is stingy with its foreign aid dollars - and that Americans think they contribute more than they actually do. "In America, for example, we have always been hampered in getting adequate budgets for international assistance by the fact that the American people believe we give much more than we do," he told BBC Radio 4 on Thursday. "They think we give about 3 percent of GDP," the ex-president continued. "They think we give 10-15 percent of the budget. They think we ought to... |
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