A website is offering comprehensive details of how much money has poured into Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Maldives, as against the billions of dollars pledged by the international community in response to the unprecedented natural disaster.
The five-month-old Development Assistance Database (DAD) also holds out the promise of enabling individuals to track down at the click of a button how aid has been spent by their respective governments, local authorities and non-governmental groups.
Tsunami survivors in Thailand are able to learn, for instance, how far more privileged the resort island of Phuket has been as a recipient of funds than the neighbouring Phang nga province.
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