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Official development assistance (ODA), which last year stood at $142 billion, will never be sufficient to meet the region’s extraordinary financing needs, even if it is combined with government resources.

And, though a recently signed memorandum of understanding offers Nigeria security assistance from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and other powers, residents of remote villages in northern Nigeria, fearful of night raids by Boko Haram and running out of food and supplies, are fleeing to mountain caves or bigger towns.

These large financial firms were provided a scale of assistance that was not generally available to the nonfinancial corporate sector – and certainly not to families who found that the value of their assets (their homes) was below the value of their liabilities (their mortgages).

But foreign donors must exercise greater oversight and conditionality in their regional aid programs, as well as ensure that their assistance is better coordinated and integrated than in the past.

Instead, policy elites who support globalization and an open economy will have to be seen to be addressing economic inequality and adjustment assistance for those disrupted by change.

Only a head of household--one third of the population--may draw monthly government assistance equal to $1.30 per day.

Though that would have been eminently affordable, representing less than 0.5% of international health assistance, the WHO failed to establish it.

After the creation of the welfare state, government-funded pensions and medical assistance replaced this obligation, even if younger workers’ taxes financed such schemes.

Since people under the age of 18 do not vote, the elderly come to represent a majority, whose members then seek to benefit themselves through generous pensions, lifetime jobs, or medical assistance.

In today’s neighborhood, where EU expansion is not in the cards, Europe hopes to shore up its presence by opening its huge internal market and increasing assistance.

What Puerto Rico NeedsWASHINGTON, DC – President Donald Trump and the US Congress are coming under mounting pressure to increase assistance to Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico needs more than short-term assistance (although this is also urgent); it needs bipartisan support to rebuild, with an initial and essential focus on a more robust and cheaper supply of electricity.

They even pledged to mobilize financial assistance.

For several years, some members of the US Senate have maintained a punitive policy towards Indonesia by cutting off military assistance and curtailing Indonesian military training in the US.

Indeed, the national central banks’ allocation of emergency liquidity assistance required approval by only one-third of the Governing Council’s members, and the six crisis countries had these votes.

So India is likely to ask the US to use its undoubted clout with Pakistan – the US is a huge donor of both military and economic assistance to its near-bankrupt ally – to demand tougher action against the militants on its territory.

Now, to qualify for the IMF’s assistance, Egypt has committed to reducing its subsidies and instituting a value-added tax.

Money is not everything, but it certainly helps, and official development assistance will be an important part of any funding stream.

Obama wanted to see such assistance, which began with the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, expanded further, by creating wage insurance.

Income redistribution may be an attractive idea for some – including, to a lesser extent, the Republicans who support a watered-down version, in which relatively high marginal tax rates support expanded family assistance – but it is fool’s gold.

The reality is that aid increased only slightly over the 2000-2006 period: because of massive debt write-offs, the substantial increase in official development assistance did not translate into new and available funds on the ground.

Alternatively, neighboring countries could take the opportunity, with enough international assistance, to build cities that would be valuable centers of commerce and education for their own people.

Such programs should kick-start and complement national contributions, while providing technical assistance and supporting research.

Even if the aid arrives, the point, to quote one senior UN official, seems to be “keeping people alive with our humanitarian assistance until they are massacredampquot;.

But, unlike in developed countries, China’s piecemeal unemployment insurance and underdeveloped reemployment programs weaken the incentive for people to seek assistance.

Governments must set themselves a firm four-year deadline to end fossil-fuel subsidies and redirect funding to areas like green infrastructure projects and development assistance.

It is critical to respond to the Arab Spring with assistance that is commensurate to the movement’s historical possibilities.

Unfortunately, after increasing by more than 63% during the last decade, official development assistance fell by nearly 3% in 2011.

But reducing development assistance is a shortsighted approach.

Indeed, properly implemented development assistance can catalyze additional funding and improve access to other resources.

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