Oct 19 2012
"A new survey of European Union [E.U.] residents reveals that even an economic crisis doesn't dampen Europeans' support for aid," Amie Newman, a communications officer and editor for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, writes in the blog, noting, "Eighty-five percent of Europeans say that Europe should continue helping developing countries -- primarily those, however, that are affected by a natural crisis or a conflict." She adds, "On the other hand, the majority of respondents want to see emerging economies including Brazil, India, and China cut off from aid" (10/16).
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 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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