In order is Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, German, Netherlands, UK, Canada, Belgium, France, US, Japan, Australia, with Norway so far ahead they have a different font color.
In order is Norway, Switzerland, Sweden, German, Netherlands, UK, Canada, Belgium, France, US, Japan, Australia, with Norway so far ahead they have a different font color.
Does foreign aid mean like giving money to Israel to bomb innocent PR people?
It’s stuff like food and medicine, things to combat the spread of HIV and other communicable diseases, poverty, and malnutrition.
USAID, for example
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development
It’s not only “free money”.
It’s often money that needs to be paid back with interest. Development aid can be used to earn money.
Many countries work together on a metro project in Peru. The money comes back with interest. The countries participating also like to see that their companies work on the project and earn money, too.
China probably clapped after the Orange One ended many of those prjects. Those countries will depend on China instead of the USA, which is bad for the USA once again.
USAID makes money off of poor countries. They don’t give money to help people
A lot of corruption in USAID contracting with domestic firms getting these contracts.
Not sure how other states do it. But the grift is real.
the u.s. gives countries money (usually) with the condition that they spend it on u.s. made equipment and munitions. those companies then make profits on those sales. it’s basically subsidies for the u.s. defense industry. part of the ‘military industrial complex’.
i think those funds fall somewhere under defense dept spending and would be separate from non-defense related foreign aid (humanitarian, medical, environmental, disaster, etc).
Even the non military money isnt actual aid. Its loans that profit off of poor countries.
Like 50 million in Sexual health care to Gaza.