Dominica has been listed among countries worldwide that received the least foreign aid from the United States in 2023.
The information was obtained from data compiled by the media organization, US News and World Report. Data for 2024 is not yet available.
Of the ten countries that received the least foreign aid, Dominica was fourth receiving just $86,000.
Curacao topped the list of these countries, receiving $3,000, followed by Portugal: $6,500, and Kuwait: $73,000.
The remaining countries are Italy ($90,000), Norway ($93,000), Russia ($108,000), Spain ($133,000), Netherlands ($144,000) and Singapore ($304,000).
On the other hand, Ukraine, Israel, and Jordan were the top three countries that received the most foreign aid from the US in 2023.
Ukraine, which is presently locked in a war with Russia, received a whopping $17.2-billion. Israel, a traditional ally of the US in the Middle East, received $3.3-billion.
Jordan, another US ally in the Middle East, got $1.7-billion. The other countries that received the most foreign aid from the US are Egypt ($1.5B), Ethiopia ($1.5B), Somalia ($1.2B), Nigeria ($1B), Congo (Kinshasa) ($990M), Afghanistan ($886.5M) and Kenya ($846M).
A website run by the US State Department and the US Agency for International Development, ForeignAssistance.gov, describes foreign assistance as including “activities funded from appropriations accounts that are made available for assistance for foreign countries, international organizations, and other foreign entities, which may include funds, goods, services, and technical assistance.”
According to the US News and World Report, foreign aid from the US is made with a specific cause in mind.
“The money could be spent for humanitarian relief, health care, infrastructure, education, military aid and more,” it said. Countries involved in ongoing conflicts typically receive significant amounts of military aid, while countries experiencing a humanitarian crisis might receive aid in that area – or in health or infrastructure.”
The US gives more money in foreign aid in total dollars than any other country in the world, distributing more than $640-billion globally from 2012 through 2022, according to data reviewed by US News and World Report.
You DO NOT NEED foreign aid, it creates dependence. You simply need TO BE LEFT ALONE, given reparations like Israel, South Korea and Ukraine to develop your own relationships and grow without sanctions.
With all the foreign aid we receive, and that’s a lot, we are still unable similar to African countries, to feed ourselves; and that’s very very important.
Just imagine this: It is setup that if you (3rd world) stop begging you’ve just triggered a regime of sanctions by by E U, U.S, IMF, WBnk, WTO all the instruments used to maintain you in poverty. Be brave, set up your own relationships and grow like others.
The USA does not give aid to countries who are not their puppets and Akissers.Skerrit is not a puppet and an Akisser of the US,that is the comments they(DNO)fear to post.
The USA does not give foreign aid to corrupt governments where their Prime Ministers keep all the money for themselves instead of helping their people.
Looks like you’re one of the parrots 🦜, Dominica not an as.kisser like you. We don’t need any help from the US.
This article just goes to show how hawkish, criminal and nasty the USA is. Don’t be fooled people, Ukraine did not get 17.2 Billion USD, the figure is very close to 100 000 000 000 USD (one hundred billion). Israel and its criminal Prime Minister, Netanyahu, has also got a lot more.
I am no fan of Roosevelt Skerrit, because he is a grossly corrupt leader, but if this article is intended to make him look bad, i see it differently. The article simply shows how America is a threat to global peace, and how it supports and fuels wars, just to remain the world’s hegemon.
Watch Syria? America worked with Al Queda to topple Asad. It worked with HAMAS in 2012. Al Jalani in Syria was named a terrorist by America. Al Jalani personally cut of the heads of people, but America is in bed with him, because he is doing Americas dirty and nasty work.
A nasty country! Shi.y article!
That’s the America that tells you all it’s the champion of democracy.
Democracy my……..!
What has Dominica got they would be able to bring to the table with the exception of a corruption of sale of passport via the CBI Scheme.
Thank you MIGHTY USAfo being such great a “PARTNER IN DEVELOPMENT”
Dominica has survived without your assistance added to your economic squeeze.
well de US knows how Skerrit scammed PM Pierre Charles to go to Barbados to diss Taiwan and kiss China
although 2 of his children were born in the US Skerrit doesn’t speak highly of de US at all.
all he does at de UN is kiss China you know what like jester or clown
That is significant.
what about de amount we got from China
we got what we really deserved
reading your comment feels like watching someone pen love letters to a phantom. The sheer reverence you heap upon your imagined “America the Almighty” is almost poetic—if poetry were written by someone who never graduated from the school of reality. Do you honestly believe your star-spangled fantasy daddy is even glancing in your direction? The delusion is so thick you could bottle it and sell it as an anti-perspirant for critical thinking. Wake up—your dreamboat sailed decades ago, and you’re still wading knee-deep in the tidepool of unreciprocated adoration.
Waiting for Thompson Fontaine,Lennox Linton and the blue acolytes to tell Dominicans what the $86,000 was for.I hope they read the entire report.
@Lin Clown
@Lin Clown
@Lin Clown
So you need someone else to tell you what you need to know? No wonder you called yourself a clown.