President Bush pledged to provide the poorest nations about_____per year.

In March, 2002, while the U.S. was still fighting in Afghanistan and gearing up for its other wars, President George W. Bush made a grand gesture at a United Nations-organized summit in Monterrey, Mexico, that surprised many of the Administration’s critics. Bush pledged to boost U.S. development assistance to the world’s poorest nations by $5 billion over five years. He was also one of many heads of state to sign the Millenium Declaration—better known as the Monterrey Consensus—which pledged huge foreign-aid increases as part of a comprehensive approach to eradicate global poverty.