ABSTRACT
Most evidence suggests that public attitudes to development cooperation in the donor countries are strongly influenced by information and understanding. NGOs contributing to The Reality of Aid have surveyed their own governments’ spending on information, public relations and development education. For several countries, such as Japan, information requirements are integrated into project funding and are not available as a discrete category. In making country comparisons, therefore, these figures should be treated with some caution. In only three cases does per capita expenditure exceed a dollar a year. Those three cases are Norway, Sweden and The Netherlands, three out of the four countries which have consistently managed to exceed the ODA target of 0.7% of GNR Government spending on information and development education Most recent year in US$ thousands https://www.niso.org/standards/z39-96/ns/oasis-exchange/table">
Country
Year
Total spending on information, PR and development education. US$ thousands
Spending per capita on information, PR and development education, US$
Australia
1994/5
1333.7
0.08
Austria
1995
6943.1
0.87
Belgium
1994
4294.0
0.43
Canada
1993/4
11567.5
0.40
Denmark
1994
4528.5
0.87
Finland
1995
1236.7
0.24
France
1995
1001.8
0.02
Germany
1995
4603.2
0.06
Ireland
1996
1921.5
0.54
Italy
1994
407.4
0.01
Japan
1994
2063.5
0.02
Luxembourg
1994
146.1
0.38
The Netherlands
1995
18006.2
1.18
New Zealand
1995
49.2
0.01
Norway
1994
4926.1
1.14
Portugal
1994
34.2
0.01
Spain
1994
1244.4
0.03
Sweden
1994/5
12448.1
1.43
Switzerland
1994
2194.4
0.32
United Kingdom
1995
2051.8
0.04
United States
1995
2500.0
0.01
Source: NGO Reality of Aid questionnaires