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December 10, 2014
Overall rank 2014: 1
Denmark ranks 1st overall in 2014. Denmark gives a large quantity of high-quality foreign aid, encourages research and development, contributes a significant amount of personnel and finance to international peacekeeping and humanitarian interventions, and pr...
December 10, 2014
Overall rank 2014: 12
Germany ranks 12th overall in 2014. Germany supports international trade by opening its market to foreign services and imposing low administrative requirements on imports. It also ranks well on the migration component due to accepting immigrants from po...
December 10, 2014
Overall rank 2014: 21
The Czech Republic ranks 21st overall in 2014. The Czech Republic performs best in the environment component, due in part to high gas taxes and waning growth in greenhouse gas emissions compared with GDP. It also scores above average in the technology component, ...
December 10, 2014
Overall rank 2014: 25
Switzerland ranks 25th overall in 2014. Switzerland bears a large share of the burden of refugees during humanitarian crises and the quality of its foreign aid is relatively strong. But these contributions to development are offset by Switzerland’s po...
December 10, 2014
Overall rank 2014: 12
Canada ranks 12th overall in 2014. Canada’s main contributions to the development of poor countries come through its effective aid program, low agricultural subsidies, accepting immigrants from developing countries, few arms exports to poor and undemocratic...
December 10, 2014
Overall rank 2014: 16
Belgium ranks 16th overall in 2014. Belgium is rewarded for low levels of fossil fuel production, and participation in international security treaties. Belgium’s overall score is hurt by low aid volume and below average aid quality, small proportion...
December 10, 2014
Overall rank 2014: 10
Austria ranks 10th overall in 2014. Austria is rewarded for admitting a large number of legal immigrants from developing countries, support to international security and technology transfer. But Austria is penalized for poor donor practices, trade barriers ...
December 10, 2014
Overall rank 2014: 12
Australia ranks 12th overall in 2014. Australia performs well on the trade component due to low trade barriers against developing country agricultural exports (lowest among the CDI countries). Australia’s score is positively affected by openness...