{"id":2094,"date":"2004-12-06T11:13:25","date_gmt":"2004-12-06T15:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2004\/12\/06\/\/"},"modified":"2004-12-06T11:13:25","modified_gmt":"2004-12-06T15:13:25","slug":"2094","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/2094\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/oxfam-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Oxfam logo\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>BBC NEWS: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/4071043.stm\" rel=\"external\">Oxfam raps rich nations over aid<\/a><br \/>&#8216;In real terms, the aid budgets of rich countries are half what they were in 1960, the charity claims. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As rich countries get richer, they&#8217;re giving less and less. This is a scandal that must stop,&#8221; Oxfam director Barbara Stocking said.<\/p>\n<p>If the present trends continue, the agency warns that 45 million more children will die needlessly in the next 10 years. &#8220;The world&#8217;s poorest children are paying for rich countries&#8217; policies on aid and debt with their lives,&#8221; Ms Stocking said.<\/p>\n<p>Oxfam says rich countries such as the US, Germany and Japan have broken a pledge made in 1970 to make available 0.7{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62} of their gross national incomes in aid. In 2003, the average aid budget of wealthy countries was just 0.25{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62} of national income, and just 0.14{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62} for the US. &#8220;Making this finance available&#8230; is a both a moral obligation and a matter of justice,&#8221; it says.<\/p>\n<p>It also claims that aid is being used as a political tool, with some nations making combating terrorism an explicit aim of their aid programmes.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/oxfam-goat.jpg\" alt=\"Oxfam Unwrapped\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>This Christmas, if you&#8217;re wondering what to get that person who has everything, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfamunwrapped.com\/\" rel=\"external\">choose a gift that makes a difference<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC NEWS: Oxfam raps rich nations over aid&#8216;In real terms, the aid budgets of rich countries are half what they were in 1960, the charity claims. &#8220;As rich countries get richer, they&#8217;re giving less and less. This is a scandal that must stop,&#8221; Oxfam director Barbara Stocking said. If the present trends continue, the agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}