If this funding available for foreign economic assistance is used in its entirety, it would account for 0.16 % of the ROC's GNP. With the unpublicized budget for political considerations added on, conservatively estimated, "last year our country's foreign aid must have been over 0.1 % of GNP," gauges Chou Yan, director of the Operations Department of the Management Council of IECDF.
但由於外交部的國際事務經費不全然用於對外援助，加上政治考量不能公佈預算執行結果，因此保守估計，「去年我們對外援助款項應在國民生產毛額的百分之○．一以上」，經濟部海外經濟合作發展基金管理委員會業務組組長周嚴估算指出。