The Center for Global Development has put together a cool web ap that lets you see how different countries do in terms of being helpful to the developing world:
The United States is about average overall. Our standout categories are trade and security, we do badly on environment and aid metrics. Nicest overall country is Sweden.
Update
I would really encourage people who raised issues about these metrics to go read the comment that David Roodman, who worked on the index, left down below. It’s very interesting and many thanks to him for participating in the discussion.
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