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Foreign Aid: Who’s The Most Generous?

In foreign aid terms what’s the best way of measuring how generous a country is?

Last month Donald Trump said that ‘the United States is the world’s largest giver in the world by far of foreign aid’. This prompted a number of listeners to email More or Less to ask whether he was right and if just looking at the total numbers is the best way of measuring how generous a country is. We crunch the numbers and talk to Brad Parks from research lab Aiddata about aid donations from some of the world’s more secretive countries.

Presenter and producer: Ben Carter

(image: Humanitarian aid efforts continue following the super typhoon in the Philippines. Photo Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

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9 minutes

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Tue 23 Oct 2018 01:50GMT
BBC World Service except News Internet

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