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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Everyone who writes about the subject agrees that we spend less per capita on foreign aid, however defined, than anyone else, or almost anyone else, in the industrialized world. If you don't believe me, run a few Google searches.
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I did, but all those sources seem to refer to economic aid, which doesn't include humanitarian aid.
I don't see why humanitarian aid isn't foreign aid.
I also don't see why military aid isn't foreign aid.
So there seems to be at least 3 widely accepted categories of aid - economic, humanitarian, military. However, all the numbers that you have quoted and that get written about only seem to be directed to economic aid and leave out humanitarian and military aid.
Then there are those who talk of trade deficits as aid, too, but I can see how that is not the typical use of the word.
