Seanad debates
Wednesday, 26 November 2003
Overseas Development Aid: Motion.
I have no doubt that the Minister of State and other contributors will refer to the committee's report. I have outlined the good news, but the bad news concerns the rankings that appeared in Foreign Policy magazine, published in May-June 2003. It teamed up with the Center for Global Development to create the first annual CGD-FP commitment to development index, which grades 21 rich nations on whether their aid, trade, migration, investment, peacekeeping and environmental policies help or hurt poor nations. Ireland did not fare too well in the survey despite the fact that we have been increasing our budget over the past ten years. Ireland is in the bottom 25%, a disappointing joint 15th out of a total of 21.
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