My cousin in Tibet is an illiterate subsistence farmer. By accident of birth, I was raised in the west and have a Ph.D. The task of our generation is to cut through the illusion that we inhabit separate worlds. Only then will we find the heart to rise to the daunting but urgent challenges of global disparity. —Losang Rabgey, The Way I See It

Tsunami Aid as a Function of GDP [Justin]

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Dad, mom, and I were arguing about whether the United States’ $350 million aid pledge for tsunami victims was generous or stingy. I said it was pretty stingy, but it looks like the US actually did pretty well (though we were far from the most generous).

This table shows the relative contributions of each nation. I have multiplied the aid/gdp quotient by a million, because it’s hard to read and compare numbers with leading zeros. Here is a more complete table of tsunami relief as a function of GDP.

Country 1,000,000 X Aid/GDP++
1. Qatar 572.54094
2. Australia 107.37465
3. Spain* 81.32998
4. Denmark* 73.44494
5. Kuwait 59.37403
6. Saudi Arabia 53.05631
7. China 44.68554
8. Norway 37.00712
9. United States 32.16436
10. United Arab Emirates 28.18489
11. Finland* 20.99127
12. Britain 16.43584
13. Singapore 13.13744
14. EU (plus members) 12.11489
15. France* 11.64017
16. Germany* 11.30064
17. Slovakia* 7.26936
18. Japan 6.93410
19. Switzerland 5.66735
20. Austria* 5.56757
21. Netherlands* 5.30322
22. Czech Republic* 5.22016
23. Slovenia* 4.31822
24. Canada 3.95499
25. European Union+ 3.38391
26. S. Korea 3.30398
27. Poland* 1.60334
28. Greece* 1.17580
29. Egypt 0.98269

+Not including additional contributions made by member nations
++Included for easy comparison
*Not including contribution via EU
Sources:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6767190/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29

4 Responses to “Tsunami Aid as a Function of GDP”


I wish we could spend a lot more time thinking and talking about ways to help, instead of arguing about whether we are stingy or not, or even whether the same disaster could happen to America.http://messychristian.blogs.com/messy_christian/2004/12/whos_stingy.html

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Dear beloved Sir in Chirst, Dear Brother and Elders
in Christ greetings to you in the name of our Lord
Savior Jesus Christ. This from Bro.John Benny Gospel
Preach in Gudlavalleru and it is surrounding village
and wrote with thank.
I am doing Gospel Service Gudlavalleru in Andhra
Pradesh in Krishna Dist., from 1998. We have fore
churches at Gudlavalleru is a main church. We have 30
congregations. They all are accepted Jesus Christ is
their own savior. They got water Baptism. But they are
very poor people. They dependent their daily wages.
Dear Brother and elders this is my personal matter. I
born in a Hindu family I was called as Rama Krishna
before I came to know about Jesus. I lead a sinful
life up to 18 years old. Where I know little about
God.
I wasted my youthful 18 years. I faced my problems
which include family problems. At the age of 18 I came
to know by a Pastor that Jesus is the real God who can
solve problems gives peaceful life, who wipe away the
sins and give salvation to mankind. Then I prayed Him
for salvation accepting all sins. I was touched with
holy spirit. I was Baptism in 1994 June 15th, later I
am trained in a Bible College. Present I am aged 29
years and was married in the year 1998. God given me
good wife and two children. My wife name is Aruna and
she is 26 years old. When I went to Chittor about 400
Kms far from my residence to preach. On 10th of
February 2001, my wife when she was a pregnant was
lead to a stove burn accident. Then doctors rejected
her that she will not live and the child would be
handicapped. But God miracle to us and she was saved,
God gave a son to us with good health. It was a great
miracle to us. I pray obediently, faithfully and live
him and extend his word until the end of my life.
Please remember my work in your daily prayer. We are
very poor family I am depending upon my Church members
and God. But financially inconveniences, we are
requesting you as a bother in Christ.
If you’re praying for me. I will do more Gospel
Services for our Lord. I will get many souls for our
kingdom of God. Please visit my Church Ministry and
observe my work, if God blessings to you then to help
our Ministry. Please continuous pray for to my
ministry.
We are raising 22 orphan children in our house, in
Limited resources but as the time is
passing it is Becoming very burden and difficulty to
us in all these Days due to lack of crops in
our area. There is so Much drought condition in our
area. Recently tsunami Which attacked all
the world countries. Our place is Also surly greatly
attacked by that tsunami. So Please consider our
position of orphan. Prior to all these pray for all
our problems, to god, so that god may open the doors
for us to raise that orphan very goodly. Not only that
22 orphans, we may increase it so much. If good
orphans the doors. If possible. Please help us in
raising that orphans. for22 orphans we need nearly 450
$ for month. We started this ministry according the
vision. We got from god on basis of gods word JAMES :
1:27. PLEASE COME AND VISIT MY MINIESTRY, that you
will be certainly moved by the ituations. We are
facing, we are not able even to provide enough food
,cloths and shelter to the orphans. Witch tears in my
eyes and burden in heart about all my orphan children.
I am writing this letter to you

Thanking you, Sir,
Yours faithfully,
PASTOR LINGAM JOHN BENNY
The Faith Worship Ministries
Door No.12-25,
Nehru Nagar,
Gudlavalleru (Vill & post)
Krishna Dist. A.P. INDIA
Pin: 521 356
E-mail:
bennylingam@yahoo.com
dont for get me please

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