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Given the great humanitarian tradition of the United States, it is curious that no category of government spending ranks below foreign aid in polls of the American public.¹ Americans are poorly informed about foreign aid; polls indicate that the majority believe the United States spends substantially more on foreign aid than it does, the median estimate being about 15 percent of the federal budget.² In reality, the United States currently provides about $19 billion in overseas development assistance, the largest dollar amount of any country.³ But that represents only 0.16 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, which is the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston.

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