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Originally Posted by SilverTab
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evertheless, Roodman said, "if you want a meaningful measure of how much countries are trying, you have to look at aid either per capita or as a share of GDP," which measures countries by their capacity to give.
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Again, regardless of who he is, he is wrong. You don't need to know many specifics of what he's talking about to know that. Here's why:
If you're not going by an absolute measure like total dollar value (or so you don't get hung up on that then some other absolute value such as quickness of delivery, etc) then you're trying to measure it in relative terms.
If you're trying to measure it in relative terms then there are too many other factors to consider it properly. Gross domestic product being one, expenses being another (which he hasn't mentioned). Now should you consider population of the donors or not? Should you consider the other economic trends (recession, growth) of the donors or not? All these factors end up muddying up the results so much that even the two example methods this Roodman gave give two different results.
OK, I'm done here for the night.
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