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Before taking office, President Barack Obama had promised a doubling of American foreign assistance, from $25 billion to $50 billion, but since then Vice-President Joe Biden has warned that this commitment will probably be achieved more slowly because of the downturn.
The current worldwide slump could bring a cut in official development assistance (ODA) of 30%.
The value of all ODA in 2006 was $126 billion, less than half the value of private remittances, even though it includes assistance from OECD and non-OECD countries, as well as from China.
Such a review of remittances should look into restrictive practices that could be abolished, and ask whether official assistance should be adapted to the needs of this informal yet crucially important aid network.
Finally, although investment in development assistance is key to supporting Africa’s advancement, nations will ultimately have to take responsibility for their own development.
So-called “Abenomics 2.0” entails efforts to raise the fertility rate (free preschool education, support for fertility treatments, and greater assistance for single-parent families) and to mitigate problems associated with population aging (boosting social security and providing more employment opportunities for retirees).
Why Europe Needs Automatic HaircutsMUNICH – Having already agreed to double the AAA-rated lending capacity of the European Financial Stability Facility, the special fund created by eurozone states to provide assistance to troubled member economies, European Union countries are now discussing the conditions under which the EFSF’s funds will be made available.
Where adaptation to ruthless international competition and rapid technological change calls for flexibility and individual responsibility, the dominant culture in France continues to be one of assistance and entitlement.
The IMF provides countries with technical assistance in a wide range of areas: monetary policy, bank regulation, and fiscal consolidation.
The regulatory infrastructure includes supervision, deposit guarantee, the lender of last resort, and emergency liquidity assistance.
The three countries receiving the largest shares of US development assistance are Afghanistan, Jordan, and Pakistan.
Russia is also using less coercion and more carrots, offering economic assistance, security guarantees and an ideology of “sovereign democracy” that appeals to many post-soviet elites.
Ambitious recent proposals to provide comprehensive assistance to battered Puerto Rico could, in principle, facilitate debt restructuring, though it is too early to say.
This should take the form of technical assistance and economic incentives.
Based on the experience of my foundations in countries like Russia, I assert that outside assistance can be effective.
The first involves development assistance; the second, strengthening international institutions, such as an international central bank and a World Development Agency.
The resulting exchanges have focused largely on military assistance, though Putin has also wooed Iraq’s new ambassador to Russia, Haidar Mansour Hadi, with the prospect of cooperation in the energy sector.
Many observers believe that other countries are undermining ASEAN unanimity by developing dependencies with individual countries, built on investment, trade, and assistance.
After all, it was the Republicans who had blocked assistance to those losing their jobs as a result of the globalization they pushed assiduously.
The recent visits by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to Europe’s crisis countries, to which he offered generous loans and assistance, made this strikingly clear.
From 2005 to 2008, interdicting foreign fighters and assistance to the IS’s predecessor, Al Qaeda in Iraq, contributed significantly to quelling the Sunni insurgency.
These funds are used to provide financial assistance to non-eurozone EU countries through the Medium-Term Financial Assistance Facility, to eurozone countries through the now-expired European Financial Stabilization Mechanism, and to partner third countries.
Countries receiving assistance should be given the option of applying for an anticipated disbursement of EU funds.
Lists will be shortened and deletions made, and this will frequently entail eliminating even good personal friends of the diplomats in charge of the screening, people whom they have given various forms of intellectual, political, or material assistance.
Then, for some unknown reason, it could make its assistance to Africa conditional on fraternal ties with the worst African dictators.
With their trust in bilateral assistance and multilateral institutions such as the International Monetary Fund shaken, emerging-market economies – led by those in Asia – embarked on a sustained drive toward greater financial self-reliance.
Mali was the first to ask for it, with local religious authorities supporting the government’s request for military assistance from France.
Suddenly, Germany, the Netherlands, and France have to extend financial assistance to Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Cyprus, and, increasingly, Spain.
Given that eurozone countries have lost the capacity to devalue their currency in order to regain competitiveness, any country that cannot compete must rely on assistance from wealthier states.
We simply lack the resources to undertake the great task of reconstruction without assistance.
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