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To: snowsislander
According to the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act of 2002, the Unites States has sent $918 million to South Asia and $298 million to East Asia. The 18 countries that benefited include: East Timor, Sri Lanka and India. What has the rest of the world sent there preemptively?
32 posted on 12/28/2004 1:14:29 PM PST by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: massgopguy
According to the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act of 2002, the Unites States has sent $918 million to South Asia and $298 million to East Asia. The 18 countries that benefited include: East Timor, Sri Lanka and India. What has the rest of the world sent there preemptively?

I am not sure about the rest of the world, but here are the top ten destinations for Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) for 2000, 2001, and 2002:

Rank 2000 2001 2002
Country Amount Country Amount Country Amount
1 Indonesia 970.10 Indonesia 860.07 China 828.71
2 Viet Nam 923.68 China 686.13 Indonesia 538.30
3 China 769.19 India 528.87 India 493.64
4 Thailand 635.25 Viet Nam 459.53 Viet Nam 374.74
5 India 368.16 Philippines 298.22 Philippines 318.02
6 Philippines 304.48 Tanzania 260.44 Pakistan 301.12
7 Pakistan 280.36 Pakistan 211.41 Thailand 222.43
8 Tanzania 217.14 Thailand 209.59 Azerbaidjan 141.84
9 Bangladesh 201.62 Sri Lanka 184.72 Bangladesh 122.72
10 Peru 191.68 Peru 156.52 Peru 119.58
  Total above 10 4,861.64 Total above 10 3,855.50 Total above 10 3,461.10
Bilateral Aid
Total
9,640.10 Bilateral Aid
Total
7,452.04 Bilateral Aid
Total
6,725.91

It looks to me like for the net money distributed to the top 10 recipients, about $3 billion went in 2002 to East or South Asia, with a little bit for Central Asia and a little for South America.

Looking at all projects individually (which you can do here) it appears that for all projects in the area it came to 531,245 million yen, or about 5.2 billion dollars in ODA for the South, East, and South-East Asia. (Note, these are new fundings, whereas the above table is net disbursement.)

However, unlike many countries, Japan's aid generally has a loan component, though the interest rates are very low. (When I say generally, I think it's about 60% of the money going out is in the form of a low-interest loan, the rest being in the form of a grant.)

If you are interested in the flow of funds for 2002 (which lets you break out the netting a bit), you can find them here at the Ministry of Finance.

44 posted on 12/28/2004 5:11:33 PM PST by snowsislander
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