{"id":2157,"date":"2011-05-26T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2011-06-01T17:28:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T21:28:51","slug":"falling-short-of-aid-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/2157","title":{"rendered":"Falling Short of Aid Targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <em>New York Times<\/em> <a title=\"The G-8's Self-Serving Math\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/25\/opinion\/25wed3.html\" target=\"_blank\">editorial<\/a> that seemingly went unnoticed yesterday:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which keeps track of aid flows, said aid from rich nations in 2010 was $19 billion short of the promises made at the G-8 summit meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland, six years ago. Aid to Africa came in $14.5 billion short.\u00a0(&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">According to the OECD, most European donors have also failed to hit their pledge to increase aid to 0.51 percent of gross national income (GNI). Italy delivered only 0.15 percent; Germany only 0.38 percent. The United States looks better mainly because it didn\u2019t make such a commitment. Last year, American aid amounted to only 0.21 percent of GNI. It was, however, one of very few countries that made good on its promise to double aid to Africa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lester B. Pearson\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lester_pearson\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Pearson<\/a> must be spinning in his grave: most of those numbers fall far short of the &#8220;<a title=\"What is the 0.7% Pledge?\" href=\"http:\/\/uwaterloo.ewb.ca\/point7\/what\" target=\"_blank\">0.7% <del>pledge<\/del> target<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: <a title=\"@m_clem\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/m_clem\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Clemens<\/a> rightly notes that the 0.7% of gross national income was a target, not a pledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a New York Times editorial that seemingly went unnoticed yesterday:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-yN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}