Which country receives the most in total foreign aid from all donors? The official numbers show Iraq at the top with $3 to $18 billion in aid (depending on how you define "aid") and all the other recipient nations of the world at less than $3 billion per year. However, if you look at which nation benefits most from foreign subsidies, the U.S. would come out on top by a very wide margin. Yes, I did just say that the U.S. is the world's largest recipient of foreign assistance. Other countries are not sending official government "aid" dollars to help the U.S. but are doing things that have the same effect. For instance, China provides the biggest single subsidy to the U.S.
The authors estimate the responsiveness of aid to recipient countries' economic and physical needs, civil/political rights, and government effectiveness. They look exclusively at the post-Cold War era and use fixed effects to control for the political, strategic, and other considerations of donors. They find that aid and per capita income have been negatively related, while aid has been positively related to infant mortality, rights, and government effectiveness.
Epitomizing the second is the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a government initiative touted by President Bush in his 2007 State of the Union address that distributes a portion of U.S. foreign aid based on the political and economic environment in the recipient country. Yet while government bureaucracies may be notorious for inefficient spending (or worse), American markets reward companies if they use capital efficiently.\n Yes, this is foreign aid TRADITIONAL GOVERNMENT-TO-government aid can be spent by the recipient country on public goods the private sector might not supply, such as medicine for those who cannot afford it and public schools.
Many developing-country governments rely heavily on trade tax revenue. Therefore, trade liberalization can be a potential source of significant fiscal instability and may affect government spending on development activities-at least in the short run. This article investigates whether donors use aid to compensate recipient nations for lost trade revenue or perhaps to reward them for moving toward freer trade regimes. The authors do not find empirical evidence supporting such motives. This is of some concern because binding government revenue constraints may hinder development prospects of some poorer nations. The authors use fixed effects to control for the usual political, strategic, and other considerations for aid allocations.
Also, the ministerial policy statement includes a controversial clause that confirms Hizbullah's right to maintain arms. Reports released by [Michel Sleiman]'s office after he returned home indicated that the Lebanese president emphasized that the Shi'a party's stance as an armed "resistance" was a topic for Lebanese domestic debate and not subject to demands bytheU.S.or other international actors . Hizbullah's arms also impact another issue that topped the agenda of the meeting: Sleiman's request for additional military aid. While Lebanon has been a top recipient of aid from the United States, falling just behind Israel on a per capita basis, the U.S. has been reluctant to supply the Mediterranean country with more sophisticated weapons given its proximity to Israel and the fear that s...
[...] being a human, even an expired one, is no requirement to gobble farm gravy. * MeadWestvaco, which generated $6.17 billion in net sales in 2005, reaped $36,358 in farm pork between 2003 and 2005, including $35,058 from the Conservation Reserve Program, which pays farmers not to grow crops. Fittingly enough, a grassy median bisects Park Avenue, right outside the Manhattan offices on which MeadWestvaco doesn't farm. * The East Village-based National Audubon Society absorbed $370,043 in wheat, corn, cotton and even tobacco subsidies between 1995 and 2005, * America's fourth-largest farm-aid recipient is not some rugged farmer in overalls and a straw hat atop his sandy hair.
The criteria by which foreign aid is distributed have long been debated. There are elements of recipient needs and donor interests in the allocation of foreign aid. Because of this, it is important to disentangle the two sets of motivations when trying to understand how responsive aid is to the needs of the recipient countries. It is difficult, however, to come up with very good measures of political and strategic interests. There should be little doubt that foreign aid is related to the strategic interests of donor countries. There should also be little doubt that aid is responsive to changes in the needs, both economic and physical, of recipient countries. Therefore, the donor-interest and recipient-needs models are both relevant to the allocation of foreign aid. Aid is strongly respo...
ATLANTA - Experts say plans by lawmakers to require many Georgia companies to verify that their employees are in the country legally could be seriously undermined by document and identity fraud. The Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act, which is moving through the Legislature, relies on a pair of federal programs to crosscheck a potential employee or government aid recipient with the hundreds of millions of files of the Social Security Administration.
For Haiti the problem is that centuries of foreign and domestic tyranny have kept individual liberty and free markets from blossoming. The U.S. government played a role in this, with its nearly 20-year occupation (1915-1934) in behalf of sugar interests. But Haiti has suffered under a series of domestic tyrants too, including the brutal Duvaliers, who were backed for a while by the U.S. government as a Caribbean cold-war counterweight to Castro's Cuba. Even under democracy, Haiti found little relief from corruption and stifling control. It has been the recipient of government-to-government "aid," but that has not created prosperity; rather it lined the pockets of crooked officials. Conventional wisdom would say that Haiti did not get enough "aid" money or that it went to the wrong peopl...
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