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Independent News The relative quality of the US fighting man may be a matter of debate. America now accounts for 36 per cent of global defence spending – a share the historian Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, has pointed out, is the largest portion of global defence spending seen by a single country. Not even the Roman Empire could claim so much.
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Annan: Globalization may backfireAnnan called for a doubling of aid to $100 billion by rich governments, many of whom are still short of the U.N.-recognized goal of 0.7 percent of a nation’s gross national product to be given as aid. The United States donates about 0.1 percent of its $10 trillion economy on foreign aid, a lower per capita proportion than most other industrialized nations.
1 billion people are living on less than $1 a day.
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