Aid flows top USD 100 billion in 2005

Have you ever been telling someone about the ONE Declaration and the US Government giving more aid to poverty issues, and they doubt that our government helps at all, more or less that it's willing to reach the ONE goal? Read below for some good statistics on the US and other countries' assistance for global poverty. And be encouraged--it's a long journey--but progress IS being made!
This article is on DATA.org today:
"Official development assistance (ODA) to developing countries from member countries of the OECD’s (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Development Assistance Committee rose 31.4% to USD 106.5 billion in 2005 – a record high. It represents 0.33% of the Committee members’ combined Gross National Income in 2005, up from 0.26% in 2004. Aid in the form of debt relief grants increased more than 400% between 2004 and 2005, while other aid increased 8.7% in the same period. . . . "
"The largest donor in 2005 was the United States, followed by Japan, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. The only countries to exceed the United Nations target for ODA of 0.7% of GNI were, as for some years now, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. . . "
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