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September 07, 2005
Ranking rich countries 2005
Australia is still no. 4 on the Annual Commitment to Development Index created jointly by Foreign Policy magazine (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/) and The Center for Global Development (http://www.cgdev.org/). Denmark is no. 1 for aid but does less to allow trade than we do. The third of these annual Commitment to Development Indices ranks 21 rich countries on how they either help or hinder the poor in a number of areas including trade, migration and technology transfer. Rich countries may hand out vast amounts of foreign aid, but they also put up trade barriers poorer countries cannot scale. Australia is well ahead of the US (12), the UK (10) and Canada (also 10). New Zealand ties with Norway at 5. The US was at 7 last year so it's slipped as has the UK which was 4 last year. Canada has gone from 6 to 10. All three are less liberal on immigration than Australia. The rankings and other information relating to the Index is at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3221&fpsrc=ealert050906. Posted by belinda at September 7, 2005 03:40 PMEmail this