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Such a dialogue would have focused on pushing Venezuela’s regime to comply with the commitments mediated by the Vatican last autumn, including holding free and fair elections this year, releasing political prisoners, restoring the National Assembly’s constitutional powers, and accepting humanitarian assistance.
The law’s vague wording means that the government could, in theory, arrest anyone who provides any kind of assistance to undocumented immigrants.
In order to target these subsidies to low-income households, governments typically treat families of different income levels differently: the rich must fend for themselves, middle-class families are provided with assistance to secure mortgage loans, and the poor are offered public housing.
It would be absurd if Ukraine were to slide into a financial crisis because the EU could not agree on how to raise the funds to prevent it.The way to avoid that outcome is to adjust one of the EU’s two instruments for non-eurozone members to meet Ukraine’s needs: The Macro-Financial Assistance scheme, a versatile instrument that can combine loans and direct subsidies; or the balance-of-payments assistance facility, which could complement an IMF program to EU countries.
The way to avoid that outcome is to adjust one of the EU’s two instruments for non-eurozone members to meet Ukraine’s needs: The Macro-Financial Assistance scheme, a versatile instrument that can combine loans and direct subsidies; or the balance-of-payments assistance facility, which could complement an IMF program to EU countries.
But a tax cut could instead contract the welfare state – social assistance and social insurance, which constitute social wealth.
All of this physical degradation – as it happens – is accomplished with local consent and active local assistance.
Cuba could use the IMF’s financial assistance and technical advice as it compensates short-term losers, retrains the unemployed, and supports new businesses.
It has the world’s largest market, represents 17% of world trade, and dispenses half of the world’s foreign assistance.
This requires sensitive debate, thoughtful leadership, and financial assistance to keep girls in school.
The outgoing American administration froze $64 million of assistance, leaving a final decision on what to do to the new Obama administration.
But Syrians are a remarkably resilient, resourceful people, as well as being young and well educatedWith international assistance in developing Syria’s democratic institutions and political infrastructure, we can build a robust civil society that can assert its own identity and sovereignty, independent of undue outside influence.
Economic assistance should go simultaneously to Jordan and Lebanon to help them cope with the flood of refugees.
Many members of the National Transitional Council were educated abroad and are eager for more Western capacity-building assistance.
This difference will become even more pronounced as increasing amounts of debt relief are delivered under the Initiative for Heavily-Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs), because a principal condition for this assistance is that money saved is channeled into poverty reduction.
You can’t ask someone else to shoot you, and, in most countries, if you tell your doctor that you have had enough, and that you would like his or her assistance in dying, you are asking your doctor to commit a crime.
The report provides a strong argument for allowing doctors to help their patients to die, provided that the patients are competent and freely request such assistance.
The report also offers an up-to-date review of how assistance by physicians in ending life is working in the “living laboratories” – the jurisdictions where it is legal.
The panel examined reports from each of these jurisdictions, with the exception of Montana (where legalization of assistance in dying occurred only in 2009, and reliable data are not yet available).
At both the national and regional levels, policymakers are paying greater attention to domestic resource mobilization as a means of leveraging the effectiveness of external assistance.
In this context, strengthening our countries’ administrative capacity is critical, for it will enable us to make the best possible use of the financial and technical assistance provided by bilateral and multilateral institutions.
Indeed, given the constraints on the capacity of most African countries to attract private financing, it is critical that the international community increase official development assistance (ODA) if the SDGs are to be achieved.
They should also support our efforts to realign the existing frameworks for mobilizing ODA and ensure more timely and predictable access to external financing, along the lines established by the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, which specifies guidelines for monitoring and measuring how donor financial assistance is used.
Likewise, though Japan's behavior before and during WWII was undeniably atrocious, its record since 1945 – including championing the United Nations and other multilateral institutions and providing guidance and assistance to developing countries – has been exemplary.
Though Japan has made significant efforts to atone for its past – by issuing repeated apologies, for example, and providing development assistance – revisionism and insensitivity by some of its leaders lately have revived historical tensions with its neighbors.
After the Garissa University attack, for example, the Kenyan government increased security-related spending by 0.3% of GDP and provided additional financial assistance to the tourism sector.
Emerging-market officials have been increasingly reluctant to turn to the IMF for advice and assistance, undermining its ability to play an effective global role.
For its part, the international community, which so often has propped up authoritarian regimes in the name of stability (or on the principle that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”) has a clear responsibility to provide whatever assistance Tunisia needs in the coming months and years.
Protectionist trade measures often hurt poor countries most, and foreign assistance is generally unpopular with the American public.
And, while much of the existing international health-care assistance is focused on sub-Saharan Africa, India, along with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, are just as devastated by neglected tropical diseases.
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