War-torn Iraq is the world’s most generous country to strangers
In the midst of war, political chaos and a regional refugee crisis, Iraq still managed to be the world's most generous country to strangers in 2016, according to an annual global survey of charitable giving. Eighty-one percent of Iraqi respondents reported helping someone they didn't know in the month before the study was conducted. The […]Ishaan Tharoor writes for The Washington Post:
In the midst of war, political chaos and a regional refugee crisis, Iraq still managed to be the world's most generous country to strangers in 2016, according to an annual global survey of charitable giving.
Eighty-one percent of Iraqi respondents reported helping someone they didn't know in the month before the study was conducted. The global poll was carried out by Gallup on behalf of Britain-based Charities Aid Foundation, or CAF, which has put out an index ranking 140 countries around the world on their generosity every year since 2010.
