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* The above amount is direct aid and doesn't reflect money contributed through international mediums such as IMF and World Bank. As of 2012 the US accounts for 17% of all IMF funds and 60% of all World Bank funds.
I only found a budgeted amount at the State Department website. It looks like it's about $53 trillion but I am not sure as I try to add the subdivisions and it does not add to the $53 trillion. I have attached the website and maybe you can do better.
-- the previous answer referenced $53 trillion. That's actually just under the total GDP of the United States in 2010. So that answer is highly unlikely. In 2009 our total foreign aid budget was $28 billion. Around 1% of the budget and 0.21% of the GDP. It worth keeping in mind that of that $28 billion a significant amount ($5.2B) was in the form of military purchase programs - like the $1 billion a year we gave the Egyptians and $2billion to Israel, to buy fighters, weapon systems, and the like. Humanitarian aid in 2010 was around $2B through the US Aid program. $5B in global health programs. $800M on international law and narcotic enforcement. $6.5B in economic development (of which Afghanistan got $2.2B and Pakistan $1.1B). Israel, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are three of the largest recipients of foreign aid dollars.
The UK foreign aid budget is about 8.7 billion euro for the year of 2011. By 2014, foreign aid is suppose to reach about 12.4 billion.
To Much they will take care of others before it take care of its own
less then 1% of the budget
Over 25 billion dollars!
Don’t no
According to the last budget a tiny amount of the total US budget is spent on foreign aid. About 0.1 or 0.2% is the figure. In 2009 the total foreign aid was around $48 billion. President G.W. Bush submitted to Congress a total budget request of $3.1 trillion.
none!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1.5 billion
It has not stopped. Israel is a recipient of US foreign aid, in the form of grants and loan guarantees. Other current recipients of US foreign aid include Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, India, Russia, West Bank and Gaza.
The US offers foreign aid mostly to support struggling democracies and countries that are critical to foreign policy objectives is true.
The Netherlands is a very wealthy country (17th in the world by GDP). As such it requires no foreign aid.
A dollar is worth the same whether deposited in a foreign country or in the United States. 1 eurodollar equals 1 us dollar. A eurodollar is just a us dollar deposited in a foreign bank.
US Foreign aid is a program that probably few if any nations in the world offer.
PCH Answer: Venezuela
to fund their production of muskrats
1.5 billion
Tafts dollar diplomacy was created to protect US businesses in foreign countries. It is a foreign policy created US president William Howard Taft.