FTR, China (as the big communist-style economy) seems to be one of the smaller donors among the big economies to international aid programmes for both food and healthcare.
The US (until the schmuck) was the biggest by far for food contributions via the WFP, with the EU and individual donors making up the majority. Healthcare seems more balanced contribution-wise (not so much from the US)
Obviously it is hard to get exact numbers. In particular, China also has its own aid programme too. Estimates are of USD 5 billion to USD 8 billion per year (1,000 million) … a total for all aid.
Sure, aid is also used for leverage (soft power), but there certainly seems to be a historical pattern of the capitalist superpowers helping to feed the world, despite it often still not being enough…
It will be interesting to see if China has stepped up, with the US cutting back under trump.
edit: In a world where leaders and governments put the needs of people first, one wouldn’t need as much aid, of course.
I wonder if anyone has a number on how many people capitalism has killed.
At least 10 million every year from starvation and preventable diseases.
FTR, China (as the big communist-style economy) seems to be one of the smaller donors among the big economies to international aid programmes for both food and healthcare.
The US (until the schmuck) was the biggest by far for food contributions via the WFP, with the EU and individual donors making up the majority. Healthcare seems more balanced contribution-wise (not so much from the US)
Obviously it is hard to get exact numbers. In particular, China also has its own aid programme too. Estimates are of USD 5 billion to USD 8 billion per year (1,000 million) … a total for all aid.
Sure, aid is also used for leverage (soft power), but there certainly seems to be a historical pattern of the capitalist superpowers helping to feed the world, despite it often still not being enough…
It will be interesting to see if China has stepped up, with the US cutting back under trump.
edit: In a world where leaders and governments put the needs of people first, one wouldn’t need as much aid, of course.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzbuch_Kapitalismus
https://mltheory.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
Most of the people not alive today… sometimes the torture is spread out over 80 years or more. It’s a horrible tragedy of needless human suffering.