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South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s recent proposal to provide humanitarian assistance despite the recent spike in tension, is a start in the right direction.
Some 800 liberal and Sufi Islamic scholars have died in targeted killings by extremist groups who receive financial assistance from like-minded people in the Middle East, and some well-known and much-visited Sufi shrines have been bombed.
Even though the US offered $2 billion of assistance to the military to be disbursed over a period of 3-5 years, Kayani has resisted American pressure to move against the Taliban’s sanctuary in North Waziristan, used to stage operations against US and NATO troops in southern and eastern Afghanistan.
In some cases, this may entail delivering assistance through non-governmental organizations.
Future US policy must embody a simple but powerful principle: America will engage with and support (through various kinds of foreign assistance) any government chosen through internationally monitored free and fair elections that then governs according to a popularly ratified national constitution, with compliance overseen by an independent judiciary.
The plan authorizes a special fund to provide assistance to those who remain unemployed.
The authorities also tout the One Belt, One Road project, which will use Chinese financial assistance and resources to develop ports, railroads, and highways linking China with other parts of Asia, central Asia, and potentially even Europe.
Drug control and development assistance must therefore go hand in hand.
Supporters of military assistance argue that weapons systems are needed to fight affiliates of Al Qaeda and the so-called Islamic State in the Sinai and to maintain American influence with Egypt’s generals.
Yet, unless Egyptian youth have hope and opportunity, security assistance is only a Band-Aid.
Suppose the United States and the International Monetary Fund conditioned military and financial assistance to Egypt on straightforward measures of educational progress.
Beginning in September, students will receive financial assistance to attend the region’s top four universities; eventually, study at international universities will be funded as well.
This should include the provision of defensive lethal assistance to Ukrainian forces; after all, strength deters and weakness provokes.
When a country requires assistance, it is tempting for lenders to insist on a long list of reforms.
No one should include Switzerland among these, for the Swiss government has already offered to improve international cooperation by adopting the OECD’s standard on international administrative assistance on tax issues.
The international implication is that Switzerland has traditionally offered international assistance in criminal tax cases that have elements of fraud, but not of evasion.
By agreeing to adopt the standard on the exchange of information set out in Article 26 of the OECD’s Model Tax Convention, Switzerland will now extend administrative assistance to cover all tax offenses, including tax evasion.
For regions such as Central and Eastern Europe, where the EIB argues that it is more difficult to find investment opportunities, the bank must develop targeted instruments and technical assistance that supports small-scale renewable-energy projects.
We are also providing cash assistance to eligible poor families on the condition that pregnant mothers and children avail themselves of preventive health care, and that children regularly attend school.
The advantages included a rapid political changeover and the assistance of some of the former Communist elite in building a free, democratic, and pro-Western state.
Norway joined NATO for defense, but developed forward-looking policies on overseas development assistance and peace mediation to increase its soft power.
Then, as now, the international community’s main response for an extended period was to provide humanitarian assistance to the conflict’s growing number of victims.
Today, the UN is delivering an increasing amount of assistance to Syrian refugees who have managed to escape to neighboring countries, while those who have not are being slaughtered.
For example, someone who receives $8,000 a year in transfer payments (such as food stamps, housing assistance, and the Earned Income Tax Credit) might be deemed to have received the equivalent of $4 an hour toward meeting the minimum wage.
Financial assistance is of course vital, but the political commitment of the international community is just as important.
We encourage donors to follow through on their commitments to increase effective aid for trade – assistance to help developing countries take full advantage of trade opportunities as a lever for growth.
For our part, both the World Bank and the IMF are stepping up financial, technical, and analytical trade-related assistance.
It involved a combination of three elements: immediate international assistance, through the International Monetary Fund; severe domestic retrenchment, enforced by the highly unpopular conditionality of IMF programs; and additional financing provided by the banks.
A number of other steps would be necessary: credit facilities for reconstruction and investment; technical assistance for establishing the rule of law; support for education, management training, independent media and civil society.
It is equally unclear what will happen to asset prices when monetary assistance is withdrawn.
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