who is aiding whom?
Submitted by antarchi on September 28, 2010 - 00:15
Yearly average net transfers of financial resources to lower-income world regions 2000 - 2008
Africa (negative) -$50 billion
East and South Asia (negative) -$239 billion
Western Asia (negative) -$105 billion
Latin America & Caribbean (negative) -$65 billion
Transition Economies (mainly former East Bloc (negative) -$75 billion
Total (negative) -$534 billion
UN-DESA, 2010, World Economic Situation and Prospects 2010, New York: UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, table III.1, p. 73. This compilation draws on data from IMF, World Economic Outlook Database, October 2009; and IMF, Balance of Payments Statistics. These are recorded flows; many illicit flows go unrecorded and are therefore not reflected here.
