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Giant and Dwarfnot unreasonable to expect their development aid levels to shrink. In terms of security, theFrench are the most committed to Africa, followed by the USA, Ireland, New Zealand andGreat Britain.IrelandPortugalSwedenUnited KingdomNetherlandsFranceNew ZealandDenmarkSwitzerlandNorwayBelgiumFinlandUnited StatesSpainGermanyCanadaAustraliaItalyAustriaSouth KoreaGreeceJapan10.59.59.18.98.48.38.07.97.87.87.67.37.06.86.76.66.56.46.45.25.14.7Development commitment index for sub-Saharan Africa.Source: http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/cdi/It is clear that the CDI does not provide a complete or indisputable overview of the countriesproviding development aid. After the fall of the Soviet Union, members of the OECDwere nearly synonymous with providing development aid, but this has changed greatly overthe past decade. Quickly growing countries such as China, Brazil and even Russia eventuallybegan providing aid as well. The aid that these countries provide lacks transparency and theCenter for Global Development has not been able to obtain any trustworthy statistical datathat could be evaluated within the CDI.Another chapter in and of itself is the relatively new members in the OECD, which havenot fully embraced the concept of global responsibility for development and a significantlack of political interest has so far kept them outside the Committee for Development Cooperation.The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland became OECD members in 1995–1996,around the same time as South Korea, which is now a member of this committee. Slovakiafollowed a few years later, entering in 2000.180