送交者: 一默 于 May 16, 2008 14:34:19:

回答: US and Foreign Aid Assistance 由 霍林河 于 May 16, 2008 14:20:47:

美国的财力在民间，这个问题早就讨论过。
挪威第一，油田都是政府的。美国政府有啥？。
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24 May 2007

United States Is Largest Donor of Foreign Aid, Report Says
Americans favor private giving, people-to-people contacts

Chart shows the breakdown of U.S. foreign aid by category. Private giving outweighs government aid, contributing to the report that the United States gives more foreign aid than any other country.

Chart shows the breakdown of U.S. foreign aid by private and government giving.By Jaroslaw Anders
Staff Writer

Washington — The United States is the single largest donor of foreign economic aid, but, unlike many other developed nations, Americans prefer to donate their money through the private sector, according to a new report published by a Washington research organization.

Of the $122.8 billion of foreign aid provided by Americans in 2005 (the most current data available), $95.5 billion, or 79 percent, came from private foundations, corporations, voluntary organizations, universities, religious organizations and individuals, says the annual Index of Global Philanthropy.

The index was issued May 24 by the Center for Global Prosperity at the Hudson Institute, a Washington-based nonpartisan research organization.

“It isn’t like in the 1950s when the Marshall Plan and government flows dominated our economic engagement with the developing world,” said Carol A. Adelman, the director of the Center for Global Prosperity. She spoke May 24 at the launching of the report.

For example, U.S. foundations gave more -- in money, time, goods and expertise -- than 11 of the 22 developed-country governments each gave in 2005, and U.S. private voluntary organizations totaled more than the governments of Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany and France each.

More than half of all U.S. assistance to developing countries, $61.7 billion, came in the form of private remittances by individuals living in the United States to their families abroad, the report says. According to the report, those remittances not only reduce poverty, but, in some cases, increase creditworthiness of countries and underwrite their trade imbalances.

PRIVATE GENEROSITY

The scope of U.S. private giving often is overlooked in statistics that compare the relative generosity of various countries, the authors of the report say. Most of the other developed countries deliver their international aid primarily through official development aid programs run and financed by government agencies.

U.S. official development assistance (ODA) in 2005 was $28 billion, the largest of all official donations by an individual country. But, according to the often-quoted measure used by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which compares government aid as a percentage of a country’s gross national income (GNI), U.S. government aid is only 0.22 percent of GNI, which ranks the United States as the 20th of the 22 listed donor states.

A child receives a routine examination at the Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Center in Gaborone, Botswana. (© AP Images)Index of Global Philanthropy combines all aid from developed countries