Why?  So they can have a 'score' that's on par with other nations?<p>Isn't it entirely possible that the actual aid physically deliverable in the short term has been maximized?<p>That is, that the Dutch might be better off waiting and raising/sending targeted expertise and funds during the inevitable, but not starting any time soon, reconstruction phase? (Where much of their expertise is something that very few other nations could even <i>offer</i>)<p>I suppose it wouldn't hurt to pledge that they'll do that <i>now</i>, but any amounts tied to unspecified quantities of work would be fiction anyway.  So the number would only be moved for the sake of making it move.