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roblipinski.bsky.social
@roblipinski.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Politics at @Oxford

Working on historical political economy, Baltics, Eastern Europe and public administration

Own views.
Surveys indicate that people overshoot their answers by many degrees of magnitude.

Americans guess 20-30%. It's harder to find the same numbers elsewhere, but in 2012 the Dutch were guessing 5.6% on average. Of course, in no case is the value >1%

Source: ourworldindata.org/foreign-aid-...
For many of us, it doesn’t cost much to improve someone’s life, and we can do much more of it
Most countries spend less than 1% of their national income on foreign aid; even small increases could make a big difference.
ourworldindata.org
March 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM