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Of course the USA is also the most generous country in the world, and gives more in charity than any other nation on earth. I very much appreciate you bringing that up. A great point.
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And this is not true either if we look at per capita or as a percentage of GNP. See for example:
http://kriswager.blogspot.com/2007/0...aid-donor.html
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As the figure shows, the position of USA is quite different when taking the relative economies into consideration (I’ve removed the donations from the international organizations from the figure). As a matter of fact, the US ranks 17th, just below Greece, and just above Germany. And this figure doesn’t take into consideration that the EU countries make considerable donations through the European Commission, which was ranked second in the total amount given.
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When we look at net donations per capita, the US is ranked 14th, but again, this is without taking the EC donations into account.
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