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    Quote Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
    I believe our private aid is considerably more than double our public aid. I think more like 10 times.
    If we work on ~$19B of public aid, I'm struggling to work out where the other $160B of private aid is coming from given that only ~$34B of private aid can actually be detected.

    http://www.techcentralstation.com/082102N.html

    Indeed, when making an attempt to adjust for how useful the aid is, the US consistently ranks at the bottom of the pile.

    http://www.cgdev.org/files/3646_file_WP_67_Revised.pdf

    I'm not trying to bash the US here, just don't kid yourself about how great your aid really is.

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    “Private international giving by Americans is over three and one-half times that of U.S. government foreign assistance,” Adelman told participants in the Internet chat. “When you take into account this U.S. private giving, our foreign assistance far exceeds other countries by any measure.”
    She has estimated that U.S. private international giving to the developing world exceeds $62 billion.
    Addressing questions concerning American giving abroad, Adelman called the standard measure of U.S. foreign assistance “outdated” and “flawed.” The standard measure of foreign aid, which ranks the United States last in terms of the percentage of its Gross National Income, grossly underestimates the total amount of U.S. foreign assistance, she said.
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    Adelman also includes Foreign workers sending money back home as foreign aid.

    In fact for 2003 half of the private aid that she listed was from Foreign workers remittances,
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