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Official development assistance can create incentives to cooperate by financing data-collection, providing technical know-how, or, indeed, by conditioning loans on constructive negotiations.
The tightrope turns that characterized the last several years of his encounter with the West (threats of sanctions for non-cooperation with the Hague war crimes tribunal, holding back Western assistance – EU aid programs, Partnership for Peace, etc.) reflect this bitter antagonism.
Europe’s governments are now much criticized for propping up autocratic Arab regimes, but their real failure has been one of omission: the lack of economic cooperation and development assistance offered to the region.
This should spur international institutions and North Korea’s neighbors to provide the food aid, technical assistance, and direct investment that the country needs to escape its current predicament and make the transition to a market economy.
In Mungushi, Tanzania, on the other hand, 28-year-old Rehema told us that economic assistance would make the biggest difference.
In recent years, aid for students at public schools and maternity assistance for pregnant women at health centers have been created, but these have a greater political than economic impact.
The combined aid commitments of OECD Development Assistance Committee member countries would mean a doubling of official development assistance to Africa between 2004 and 2010 – that is, if they are honored.
Apart from capital injections for construction work, support could take the form of subsidized rents or assistance for firms that employ refugees.
The real reason why the northern Europeans have been unwilling to provide a “big bazooka” – that is, extend more financial assistance to Southern Europe – is that they don’t trust the beneficiaries to use it wisely.
As a result, Germany and its allies are prepared to provide just enough assistance to keep the ship from capsizing, but not enough to set it on an even keel.
Moon has agreed to build transport and energy links between North and South Korea, as well as provide financial assistance for the North’s economic development.
To achieve this, Afghanistan needs more development assistance.
The EU vs. DemocracyROME – One of the ways in which the European Union effectively asserts the fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law is through its External Cooperation Programs, whereby, on the invitation of local authorities, it provides support in the form of electoral assistance projects and election observation missions.
Such assistance will not yield immediate results, but awareness of the medium term - which means readiness to face it by delaying immediate gratification - is also a sign of a liberal order.
Benefit-sharing may be fair in that it includes giving special assistance to research participants, such as access to medical care or to new treatments stemming from the research, but it may be unfair in failing to define the recipients of such benefits.
Similarly, AWEPA will work with African and European parliamentarians to ensure that international assistance for African adaptation is delivered and carefully monitored.
In this regard, we welcome the recent decision by Spain to seek financial assistance from the European Union to recapitalize its banks as required.
Moreover, for the first time, Colombia’s neighbors seem willing to abandon Latin America’s traditional “hands-off” policy in order to offer assistance.
These efforts have been supported by increasingly effective development assistance.
He was Undersecretary of Political Affairs in 1989 during the Polish and Central European revolutions, overseeing and spearheading US assistance.
Emergency assistance is crucial in this fragile time; but it is not enough.
Above all, never admit that there is a crisis – even if it means rejecting desperately needed humanitarian assistance.
Even now, the IMF has not acknowledged the lesson: it still insists on further cutbacks as a condition for assistance.
And in 2002, they agreed on the Monterrey Consensus, pledging concrete efforts to triple aid flows to the poorest in order to reach the international goal for foreign assistance of 0.7% of rich-world GNP.
Afghanistan is the recipient of the largest assistance program that India has for any country in the world.
Actions by Assad’s supporters have so far caused more than 270,000 deaths, displaced over seven million people internally, forced nearly four million people to flee, and left close to 12 million in need of desperate assistance.
Because recipient governments and corporations rely on international financial institutions not just for money, but also for technical assistance and policy advice, these institutions are well positioned to change the culture of development to allow for a safer and more productive process.
Since 2002, education’s share of official development assistance (ODA) has actually fallen, from 13% to 10%.
So, when visiting an African leader, I would ask a simple question: In light of the Education Commission’s report and action plan, would they be willing to commit to the levels of education investment and reform required to qualify for IFFEd assistance?
It is time for the world to move the agenda for Myanmar forward, not just by offering assistance, but by removing the sanctions that have now become an impediment to the country’s transformation.
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