'Foreign Affairs': Overseas Aid

A country's aid to other nations should be measured not simply in government dollars, but also by the charitable giving of individuals, foundations, and corporations, writes Carol C. Adelman, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and former senior official at the Agency for International Development, in Foreign Affairs (November/December 2003).

Using that measure, she says, the United States is far more generous than other countries. She estimates that private giving abroad

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