Humanitarian Spending Bucks Financial Crisis

Global spending on humanitarian aid hit a record $16.7 billion in 2010 despite the financial crisis, but devastating disasters and rising delivery costs meant almost 40 percent of needs still went unmet, new data showed on Wednesday. Governments poured $12.4 billion into emergency relief, up 6 percent from the year before, while private donors gave $4.3 billion, according to preliminary estimates by Global Humanitarian Assistance, a British-based aid monitoring group. “While the overall international response to humanitarian crises shows an upward trend, many governments are coming under pressure to justify existing levels of aid spending,” GHA said in its latest annual report on aid flows.

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