[extropy-chat] darfur

Keith M. Elis zarathustra_winced at yahoo.com
Tue May 2 14:21:25 UTC 2006



--- "Hughes, James J." <james.hughes at trincoll.edu> wrote:

> > The US is frequently accused of not doing 
> > enough to help, but if that is true what does it  
> > say about so many other large economies that do far less?  
> 
> Bulldada. The US ranks well below most European countries in the
> generosity of its aid measured as a percent of GDP or government
> expenditures, and also scores poorly when all measures are accounted
> for
> including trade, migration and security assistance:

Would you rather have 117 billion dollars or 4.1% of the GDP of Norway?
Why don't you ask the heads of state of the thirty poorest nations in
the world and see what they say? 

Keith



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