Government-Provided Foreign Aid to Developing Countries

question 146

Multiple Choice

Government-provided foreign aid to developing countries

• A) has averaged about 1 percent of the IACs' GDP each year.
• B) has increased sharply and steadily since 1995.
• C) has dwarfed the size of foreign direct investment to the DVCs in recent years.
• D) declined in the late 1990s but increased from 2000 to 2008.

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