By Joseph Appiah-Dolphyne, AfricaNews
ACCRA, 8 February 2010. Ghana has been noted as the second highest donor to Haiti after Guyana based on donor countries’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Details of financial aid and other assistance to the people of Haiti being tracked by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) which was released recently by the Data Blog indicates.
The Data blog which is hosted on the UK Guardian newspapers’ website and sourced to Relief Web has shown that contributions captured as at January 24, 2010 shows Guyana as the ‘most generous’ country in terms of its financial pledges when measured against the country’s GDP. The report indicated that Guyana is the third poorest country in the hemisphere, after Haiti and Nicaragua.
A report by the Stabroek News said after Guyana and Ghana, Canada was third, followed by Sweden, Estonia, Denmark, Spain, Finland, Norway and Australia. The US was ranked as the country which has pledged the most cash to Haiti with a total of 168 million US dollar followed by Canada 131 million dollar, Spain 45 million, UK 32 million, France 31M million, Sweden 23 million, Germany 20 million, Brazil 15 million, Australia 14 million and China 13 million.
Meanwhile, pressure is being mounted on Haiti’s creditors to write off the country’s debts.
