2013 Commitment to Development Index
Components Aid Trade Finance Migration Environment Security Technology
Quantity, net of debt payments Tying Selectivity Project proliferation Tax breaks for charity Aid
Trade Tariffs Quotas Farm subsidies Impediments to imports Services trade restrictions
Trade
Finance Political risk insurance Bribery and corruption Portfolio investment Financial secrecy More
Finance
Migration Immigration, especially unskilled Foreign students from developing countries Aid to refugees and asylum- seekers
Migration
Environment Greenhouse gas emissions Gas taxes Fishing subsidies Tropical timber imports More
Environment
Security $ + personnel to U.N. peacekeeping Personnel to non-U.N. Arms exports Protecting sea lanes International security treaties
Security
Technology Public R&D spending Tax breaks for R&D Limiting intellectual property rights
Technology
Overall
Change,
Sources: Jörg Faust, Foreign Policy
Sub-Saharan Africa
Middle East & North Africa
Europe and Central Asia
South Asia
East Asia & Pacific
Latin America & Caribbean
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Overall RankCountryAidTradeFinanceMigrationEnvironmentSecurityTechnology Overall (Average) Change, Australia Austria Belgium Canada –0.1 24Czech Republic N/A 1Denmark –0.4 5Finland France Germany Greece Hungary N/A 7Ireland Italy Japan Luxembourg N/A 5Netherlands –0.1 9New Zealand –0.8 3Norway Poland N/A 13Portugal –1.1 24Slovakia N/A 26South Korea N/A 16Spain Sweden –0.1 19Switzerland United Kingdom United States
Overall (EU) RankCountryAidTradeFinanceMigrationEnvironmentSecurityTechnology Overall (Average) 1Norway New Zealand Australia Canada EU United States Switzerland Japan South Korea
Overall (Europe) RankCountryAidTradeFinanceMigrationEnvironmentSecurityTechnology Overall (Average) 1New Zealand Australia Canada Europe United States Japan South Korea
Average rank change when one component weighted more