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It is time to shift from inaction to urgent combat against the pandemic, backed by billions of dollars in assistance from rich countries.
Here the problem is the incompatibility of insurance schemes, on the one hand, in which the benefits that people receive are based on what they have contributed, and, on the other hand, social assistance programs that entail cash transfers.
All EU countries, including the new members, should be encouraged to adapt social assistance schemes (which also exist in the new member states) so as to meet some basic income requirements.
The old mistakes – propping up lame-duck industries or betting on specific technologies – can largely be avoided through strong policies on competition and state aid (to ensure that support for the auto sector, say, is not seen as support only for current incumbents) and sunset clauses for specific assistance.
International humanitarian assistance groups are deeply engaged in the DRC, and it is a substantial recipient of international assistance.
Bush’s prior announcements of increased development assistance and stronger efforts to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa were not only moral imperatives, but also important investments in American soft power.
In 2016, the WHO Regional Office for Africa launched the Expanded Special Project for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ESPEN), which provides African countries with technical assistance and fundraising tools to fight the five NTDs that can be preempted with preventive chemotherapy: onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminthiasis, and trachoma.
The outside world can and should continue to provide assistance to help Pakistan acquire the strength and skills required to tackle modern-day terrorists.
But no amount of external assistance can compensate for a lack of motivation and commitment.
At stake is not only assistance, but Pakistan’s own future, for, in the absence of genuine commitment to counter-terrorism, it is only a matter of time before the country falls victim to the infection that it refuses to treat.
At a minimum, the central bank now needs the assistance of that part of the government that taxes and borrows.
Looking across the entire volume of new research – informed by extensive stakeholder analysis, and undertaken first for the states of Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan – shows even more ways to help the poorest that go far beyond farmer assistance.
Research by William Joe and Abhishek Kumar of the Institute of Economic Growth and S.V. Subramanian of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health reveals that investment in nutrition is an incredibly cheap way to provide powerful longer-term assistance.
But for it to be effective, policymakers should focus on three key areas: prevention; immediate and direct support for the homeless; and assistance for those making the transition to more stable housing.
Three out of four households that qualify for federal housing assistance are not receiving it, owing to conflicting eligibility requirements, duplicative applications, and complex multi-agency approval processes.
One measure at the EU’s disposal is to suspend the DRC from the provisions of the Cotonou agreement, which governs the conditions for development assistance.
However, low-income and least-developed countries need assistance in raising the floor to more acceptable levels.
Modern industrial societies now have a wide array of social protections – unemployment compensation, adjustment assistance, and other labor-market tools, as well as health insurance and family support – that mitigate demand for cruder forms of protection.
Armed with such assessments, donor countries must structure assistance in a way that mitigates corruption risks.
Military or development assistance is not apolitical.
It helps in devising strategies for how to use EU financial assistance and technical advice to best effect.
Such reforms should be part of a larger integrated strategy that includes a range of other domestic policies and investments (backed by international assistance where needed).
After rumors swirled of an army coup last fall, the president, seeking military assistance should the need arise, alerted India.
The G-8 promised that, by this year, it would increase annual development assistance to the world’s poor by $50 billion relative to 2004.
Ukraine is in desperate need of financial assistance – a point that George Soros was among the first to recognize.
Indeed, providing Ukraine with assistance is far more important than punishing Russia with sanctions.
The EU could, while offering increased assistance, encourage Ukraine to redefine itself as a bridge between East and West – as Finland, Austria, and even Switzerland have done in the past.
The revenues collected – easily hundreds of billions of dollars annually – could be spent on global public goods such as development assistance, vaccines for tropical diseases, and the greening of technologies in use in the developing world.
Governments not only needed to help by providing a combination of public assistance and new legislation guaranteeing deposits, but also were called on to shield their constituencies from destabilizing international influences.
Unfortunately, the latest political incident involving the democracy-promoting activities of American NGOs has cooled bilateral relations and threatens the $1.3 billion in military assistance that Egypt receives annually from the United States.
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