--- GIMENEZ MARTHA E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Tina Deshotels wrote:
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> > I saw "The Poverty Trap" on CNN this past weekend where Bill
> Clinton quoted
> > some statistics on where I tax dollars go (If I remember right it
> was 30% of
> > the budget went to the military and .1% to international aid). He
> also said
> > that if we increased federal aid to .7 percent of the budget we
> could end
> > world poverty.
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In Jeffrey Sachs recent book (The End of Poverty), he
goes into a lot of detail about how much money (from all countries) is
necessary to reduce, and then, end world poverty. Clinton might have
gotten his numbers from there.
As for the U.S. budget numbers, the Statistical Abstract
online should have it.
Evan Cooper
> Best,
> I don't know where you could verify this information but the notion
> that
> world poverty could be eradicated by increasing federal aid does not
> make
> sense to me in light of the impossibility of implementing the kind of
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> structural changes that would be necessary to attain that goal.
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> Best,
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> Martha
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> > more generally, where I can get stats what percentage of the budget
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> Tina
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