A poor showing Chiang Ping-kun comments that many advanced countries give 1 % or more of their annual gross domestic product in overseas aid. On this basis, Taiwan should be budgeting over US $ 2 billion, or more than NT $ 70-80 billion, for foreign aid each year.
「看看這個窮狀！」江丙坤指出，先進國家每年的援外金額都在國內生產毛額（GDP）的百分之一以上，換算起來，台灣每年至少應編列二十多億美金、合七、八百億元台幣的援外預算。