How Americans Feel About Global Poverty in Three Charts (ThinkProgress)

From the Article:

"The new study comes from the Center for Global Development, a well-regarded think tank that focuses on development issues. CGD developed a “Commitment to Development” Index, which measured the contributions a country made to help people in need around the world in six different sectors. That doesn’t just mean the quality and quantity of foreign aid and private charity; in the “security” sector, for example, a country lost points when it sold weapons to repressive governments and gained it for contributing to U.N. peacekeeping operations. They also measured the impacts of a country’s immigration policy, trade barriers, financial investments, environmental protection, and technology development — each of which can have dramatic effects on people in dire straits."

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