Commitment to Development Index 2010

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   ZZMike

   November 11, 2010

   Money given to poor countries only enriches their leaders. For example, Yasser Arafat left millions of dollars in his and his family’s bank accounts when he died.
   Also, look at the numbers for “Migration” – defined as “The migration component of the CDI compares rich countries on how easy they make it for people from poor ones to immigrate, find work or get education, send home money–and even return home with new skills and capital.”
   The U.S. leads the list for “Latin America and Caribbean”: 40.1, with Spain #2 at 32.1 (and the U.K. at 1.9 (they’re obviously not counting the “and even return home”).
   This small snippet from the “Migration” tab (click on the U.S. and scroll down) gives a hint as to their agenda:
   Migration:
   “United States Strengths
   * Large increase during the 1990s in the number of unskilled immigrants from developing countries living in the United States (rank by share of population: 2)”
   I find it hard to call that a “strength” – which calls the rest of the interpretation into question.
   That’s reinforced from some of the other “weaknesses”:
   “# Low gas taxes ($0.13 per liter; rank: 22)
   # Has not ratified the Kyoto Protocol on climate change
   # Poor compliance with mandatory reporting requirements under multilateral environmental agreements relating to biodiversity (rank: 19)”
   I can agree with some of the other “Strengths” and “Weaknesses”, but overall, I’d like to find out more about the organization (which is what the Web is for).

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