WUNRN
Website offers click of individual countries
to see rating on specific linkages of aid.
Gender Equality Linkage/Indicator
& Consideration in Ranking Scores??
2011 COMMITMENT TO DEVELOPMENT
INDEX
Which
wealthy nations are helping poor ones most? Rich and poor are linked in many
ways. Each year, the CDI scores wealthy governments on helping poor countries
via 7 linkages: aid, trade, investment, migration, environment, security, and
technology. It averages over the 7 for an overall score.........
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GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT VIEWS
Author
David Roodman is a research fellow at the Center for Global Development. The
article is also co-authored by Julia Clark. Nov.1, 2011
Each
year since 2003, the Center for Global Development has “ranked the
rich”—assessing which wealthy nations do the most (for their size) to bring
good government and prosperity to the rest of the world. Today, we released the
9th edition of this assessment, the 2011 Commitment to
Development Index. The core idea of the CDI is that nations are linked in
many ways: through foreign aid, trade and investment flows, movement of people,
natural resources, military affairs, technology. Governments, through their
policies and actions, influence these linkages for good and ill. In particular,
helping poorer nations takes more than aid.
Of course, government policies and actions don’t usually change much from year to year. So the top (and bottom) countries on the new ranking should look familiar. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands take the top four spots while South Korea and Japan come last. The high scores of the top four owe above all to their generous aid giving. The high standings of Sweden and Norway also derive from their openness to immigrants from developing countries, including refugees.
The map-based data explorer on the CDI site makes it easy to detect these and other patterns, and drill into the details. From that page, you can also find background reports, three-page assessments for each country, spreadsheets, and