The Commitment To Development Index

Ethan Zuckerman, over at the WorldChanging blog, draws our attention to the annual report from the Center for Global Development on how well countries commit to international development and global aid. It’s worth reading his take on the results. The overall leader, when measured against the various dimensions, is the Netherlands. However, as he points out, while it leads in many measures, it is only average in the measure of Migration (The movement of people from poor to rich countries provides unskilled immigrants with jobs, income and knowledge. This increases the flow of money sent home by migrants abroad and the transfer of skills when the migrants return). Worse still, its score on this measure has been falling rapidly over the past three years. Methinks I detect the baleful influence of the lovely Rita Verdonk at work here.