Anti-Poverty Index Scores US Last on Environment Policies

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Anti-Poverty Index Scores US Last on Environment Policies
by Haider Rizvi


United Nations - Despite its enormous wealth and phenomenal growth in technological inventions, the United States remains far behind other industrialized countries in trying to help poor nations embark on the path of development, a new study by an independent think tank concludes.

The United States ranks last of 21 rich countries on the environment component of this year’s Commitment to Development Index (CDI), according to the Center for Global Development (CGD), a Washington, DC-based research and policy organization.

The Index, produced annually by the Center, ranks high-income industrialized countries on how well their polices and actions support poor countries’ efforts to build prosperity, good governance, and security.

As explained by the Center’s researchers, the scoring adjusts for size, leveling the playing field for large and small countries. The environment component is just one of seven policy areas that comprise the CDI. The other components include aid, trade, investment, migration, security, and technology.

The Index shows Norway on the top among the industrialized nations in the area of environment in development, followed by Ireland, Finland, and Britain. In the industrialized world, Spain has benched as “the second worst” on the environment, preceded by Australia and Canada.

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