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American aid spending has been flat in real terms since 1945 even as the American economy grew tenfold.

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  1. Oliver Kim

    Development economist and economic historian who writes…

    Even as GDP has grown tenfold, US aid budgets have remained basically flat in real terms—the result (one might guess) of a delicate balancing act between bipartisan consensus among elites and a wariness of attracting too much negative attention.

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