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From: Alex <alex@rivadpm.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: [ was re: Really?] Foreign aid
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On 2/10/2017 17:54, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Cecil Bayona <cbayona@cbayona.com> wrote:
>> On 2/10/2017 11:30 AM, Alex wrote:
>>>
>>> The US spends 0.19 percent of GDP on foreign aid; the UK spends 0.71
>>> percent.
>>>
>>> Amazingly, the median %age that US citizens believe they are giving away
>>> in foreign aid is 25%. If Hugh is typical of his fellows, then he
>>> overestimates his generosity by a truly gobsmacking factor of 100.
>>>
>>> https://www.interaction.org/document/american-public-overestimates-us-foreign-aid
>>>
>> .19% of a hell of a lot bigger pie.
>
> Only just:
>
>  United States  $31.08 billion
>  United Kingdom  $18.70 billion

Ah, how a declining exchange rate has murdered that number.

>
>> Still both governments sometimes gives free handouts where it's not
>> deserved.
>
> Good grief.
>
> Andrew.
>


-- 
Alex