{"id":301,"date":"2007-09-17T18:25:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T17:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2007-09-17T18:25:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T17:25:03","slug":"overseas-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Overseas aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at something about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishaid.gov.ie\/about.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland&#8217;s overseas aid agency<\/a> and came across this snippet in one of its factsheets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2007, total ODA (official development assistance) will exceed \u20ac813 million. In real terms this will mean that in 2007 every Irish citizen will contribute through their taxes approximately \u20ac200 assisting some of the poorest countries in the world. This places Ireland as the sixth most generous donor country in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does \u20ac200 really count as generous? Given our nation&#8217;s wealth &#8212; even with a slowdown in the economy &#8212; you&#8217;d think we&#8217;d be able to offer more.<\/p>\n<p>The one caveat I offer is that this government aid. I don&#8217;t have a figure for how much Irish people donated through non-State charities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at something about Ireland&#8217;s overseas aid agency and came across this snippet in one of its factsheets: In 2007, total ODA (official development assistance) will exceed \u20ac813 million. In real terms this will mean that in 2007 every Irish citizen will contribute through their taxes approximately \u20ac200 assisting some of the poorest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}