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Several recent international reports, including two this month by UNESCO and the International Commission on Financing Global Education, headed by former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, show that annual global development assistance for primary and secondary education needs to rise from around $4 billion to around $40 billion.
To establish a successful counterpart for education, first the US and other countries would pool their assistance into a single new fund.
For the Trump administration, concerns have focused on issues such as the growing bilateral trade deficit, the displacement of US workers by Indian information-technology professionals, and India’s alleged use of the Paris climate agreement to extract billions of dollars in assistance.
The “emergency post-conflict assistance” (under $100 million) provided by the IMF after the 2006 fighting with Israel fell well short of the amount needed to rebuild.
But this assistance – military hardware and a five-year military training program – does not address the country’s fundamental economic problems.
In order to get further assistance, Lebanon urgently needs to strengthen its ties with the US, as well as those that it has been developing within the framework of EU Mediterranean Cooperation.
Most residents of the area below the line were not displaced or evacuated, but they were offered mortgage or rent assistance nonetheless.
Trade More than AidThe recent G-8 meeting in Scotland, as well as concerts and celebrity activism, has put a spotlight on the amount of international assistance reaching the countries and peoples of Africa.
The fact that so many problems persist despite tens of billions of dollars of assistance and years of effort is a sad reminder that aid can allow governments to undertake foolish investments that accomplish little, or can easily be siphoned off by corrupt officials.
But only the humanitarian mission has any realistic chance of being delivered through the four-part strategy now on the table: air strikes against Islamic State forces; training, intelligence, and equipment for Iraqi and Kurdish military forces and Syria’s non-extremist opposition; intensified international counterterrorism efforts; and humanitarian assistance to displaced civilians.
Given these similarities, many argue that Western powers should emulate their approach to ending the crisis in Yugoslavia – and that means providing “lethal defensive military assistance" to Ukraine.
In other words, any assistance that China provides must be “throwing good money after good potential results.”
Moreover, using biometric data like iris scans, rather than bankcards, offers some advantages for aid-delivery – namely, ensuring that assistance is delivered to its intended recipient.
They can do so by speeding up reconstruction efforts and increasing humanitarian assistance.
Russian leaders no longer expect real assistance from the West.
The investments needed to make this happen represent a fraction of most donor assistance to low- and middle-income countries, but would have a massive global impact on human development in the long term.
Given budgetary pressure in many donor countries, official development assistance is on the decline and cannot be relied upon to fill this need.
It has now emerged as a significant donor to developing countries in Africa and Asia, second only to China in the range and quantity of development assistance given by countries of the global South.
Given Afghanistan’s vital importance for the security of the subcontinent, India’s assistance program there already amounts to more than $1.2 billion – modest from the standpoint of Afghan needs, but large for a non-traditional donor – and is set to rise further.
A million tons of Indian food assistance provides 100 grams of high-protein biscuits to two million of Afghanistan’s six million schoolchildren, a third of whom are girls.
Of course, some in Pakistan see nefarious designs behind this assistance, but the ultimate objective is straightforward: to build indigenous Afghan capabilities for effective governance, reflecting India’s commitment to regional stability in the face of terror and violence.
Offers of humanitarian assistance were refused.
And yet most current aid strategies focus on short-term assistance rather than long-term integration.
As the largest creditor, Germany could dictate the terms of assistance, which were punitive and pushed debtor countries towards insolvency.
Desperate for any assistance at all, Bolivia's governments ultimately uprooted thousands of hectares of peasant crops--and got almost nothing in return but a lot of phony slogans about alternative development.
Its phenomenal manufacturing prowess rests in large part on public assistance to new industries.
But scratch the surface of any new successful industry anywhere, and more likely than not you will find government assistance lurking beneath.
The problem, of course, is that affecting the trajectories of other societies is typically a difficult, long-term proposition; in the meantime, there are pressing global challenges that need to be addressed, sometimes with the assistance of unsavory regimes.
Under Thaksin, Thailand graduated from aid recipient and became a donor country for the first time, having turned away development assistance from countries like Japan.
And, fourth, those with national legislation already in place will provide technical assistance to other countries still working toward that end.
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