Acknowledgements Foreword Overview: Promoting Freedom, Security and Opportunity Chapter 1: Promoting Democratic Governance Chapter 2: Driving Economic Growth Chapter 3: Improving People's Health Chapter 4: Mitigating and Managing Conflict Chapter 5: Providing Humanitarian Aid Chapter 6: The Full Measure of Foreign Aid Tuesday, 07-Jan-2003 08:51:21 EST

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>> Humanitarian aid in the 1990's >> New humanitarian actors >> Innovations, failures and the crisis in humanitarian aid >> Evolving practices and future changes >> Looking ahead >> Background paper >> References

The international community's experiences with conflicts and natural disasters in the 1990s led to big changes in the scope, funding, and profile of humanitarian aid making it much more controversial. During the decade just over 3 million people lost their lives to these events. Conflicts were far more lethal than natural disasters, killing three times as many people. But natural disasters were far more widespread than conflicts, affecting seven times as many people. In response, official development assistance for humanitarian aid nearly tripled, from just over $2 billion in 1990 to almost $6 billion in 2000. In most of those years the United States provided three to four times more humanitarian aid than any other donor.

Humanitarian aid in the 1990's