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U.S. Leads Rise in 2004 as Global Aid Donations
Increase to $78.6 Billion
Bush Thanks Staff for Foreign Assistance Work
U.S. Leads Rise in 2004 as Global Aid Donations Increase
to $78.6 Billion
The total of all foreign aid given by the United States
and other donor nations and groups to all poor countries—known
as Official Development Assistance (ODA)—reached a new
high of $78.6 billion in 2004.
This rise in donations was indicated by the annual survey
of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD), released in April.
The United States led other nations in ODA in 2004, handing
out $19 billion, followed closely by Japan with $8.9 billion.
France, the United Kingdom, and Germany all followed closely
behind Japan.
The U.S. ODA was 14 percent above its assistance in 2003
and marked a doubling in the government’s development
aid since 2000.
Under the Bush administration, U.S. assistance rose from
$10 billion in 2000 to $19 billion in 2004.
At a State Department briefing April 11, spokesman Richard
Boucher said: “Official development assistance from the
United States constitutes 24 percent of the world total, the
highest share of such support in nearly 20 years. Our current
assistance levels are more than twice the commitment made
by President Bush at the Monterrey Financing for Development
Conference in 2002.”
The increase is due mainly to a $1.8 billion contribution
by the United States to the International Development Association,
part of the World Bank, and sizeable outlays of $875 million
for Afghanistan and $2.9 billion for Iraq in 2004.
“I’d also note—this is not part of their
official numbers—but that over 50 percent of the funding
from the U.S. Agency for International Development in 2003
and 2004 is going to predominantly Muslim nations,” Boucher
added.
The OECD said it expects further increases in ODA this year
and in 2006.
The money nations are spending on tsunami aid and debt relief
for Iraq will begin to come into play then.
Contributions to the World Bank and increases in bilateral
aid budgets will likely make up the rest of the increases,
the group said.
And Boucher added another factor expected to play a role
in the rise in U.S. ODA: the Millennium Challenge Corporation,
which administers aid targeted to countries that make commitments
to economic and social reform, will begin to expend its funds.
ODA is the pot of government funding provided to USAID,
the Peace Corps, multilateral institutions, and certain programs
sponsored by the departments of State and Defense for use
in global development projects.
That amount is dwarfed, however, by aid from private groups
and corporations, whose contributions now make up about 80
percent of total development assistance coming from the United
States.
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U.S. Official Development Assistance was 14 percent
above assistance in 2003 and marked a doubling in the
government’s development aid since 2000.
Source: OECD.
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Bush Thanks Staff for Foreign Assistance Work
President Bush addresses USAID employees at the Ronald Reagan
Building Jan. 10, 2005, as Secretary of State Colin Powell,
Administrator Andrew Natsios, and Jack Hawkins, director of
Volunteers for Prosperity, look on. Bush offered thanks for
the foreign assistance work carried out by thousands of U.S.
and foreign staff around the world, especially during the
gigantic relief effort needed to cope with the tsunami in
Asia.
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