{"id":542864,"date":"2010-04-25T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalissues.org\/article\/593\/official-global-foreign-aid-shortfall-over-4-trillion?rssid=id2897591"},"modified":"2010-04-25T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T20:25:00","slug":"foreign-aid-shortfall-reaches-3-6-trillion-greater-than-aid-given-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542864","title":{"rendered":"Foreign aid: shortfall reaches $3.6 trillion; greater than aid given"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 40 years ago, rich country governments agreed to give 0.7% of their GNI (Gross National Income) as official aid to poor countries for development assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The average aid delivered each year has actually been between 0.2 to 0.4%. The shortfall has therefore accumulated to over $4 trillion dollars at 2008 prices, while total aid delivered in that same time frame has reached just under $3 trillion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalissues.org\/article\/593\/official-global-foreign-aid-shortfall-over-4-trillion\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure\" src=\"http:\/\/static.globalissues.org\/i\/aid\/2010\/shortfall-vs-oda-1970-2009.png\" alt=\"Of the total aid that has been promised in those 40 years, only 43% has actually ever been delivered\" width=\"530\" height=\"436\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This update includes updated charts and graphs that look into this further.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalissues.org\/article\/593\/official-global-foreign-aid-shortfall-over-4-trillion\">Read full article: Official global foreign aid shortfall: $4 trillion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 40 years ago, rich country governments agreed to give 0.7% of their GNI (Gross National Income) as official aid to poor countries for development assistance. The average aid delivered each year has actually been between 0.2 to 0.4%. The shortfall has therefore accumulated to over $4 trillion dollars at 2008 prices, while total aid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4083,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4083"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}