What of France’s current humanitarian policy ?

19/12/2008

In the 2008 Humanitarian Response Index, France was ranked 20th in a league table of 23 humanitarian donors, far behind the top-ranked countries, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Ireland. The amount of money that France contributes to humanitarian aid is particularly low (57 million dollars in 2007, less than 1% of development aid), which places it in 19th position in terms of generosity. [...]