WUNRN

http://www.wunrn.com

 

http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/cdi/

 

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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http://blogs.cgdev.org/globaldevelopment/2011/11/2011-commitment-to-development-index-is-out.php

 

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.

 

Commitment to development index 2011 results bar graph 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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