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Even if they do, they will need assistance, not only to extract their resources, but also to improve the health and education of all Bolivians – to ensure long-term economic growth and social welfare.
This ambitious pan-regional infrastructure initiative combines economic
assistance
with geostrategic power projection, supported by a new set of China-centric financial institutions – the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the New (BRICS) Development Bank, and the Silk Road Fund.
As Britain itself has pointed out, developing countries need more
assistance
and a fairer international trade regime.
Even after the increases in annual
assistance
promised by Bush at the UN’s meeting in Monterey, Mexico, in 2002, the United States is still giving less than a quarter of its commitment of 0.7% of GDP.
Of course, Mobutu’s boundless corruption challenges us to be thoughtful about foreign aid, both about how the money is spent and who is responsible for “delivering”
assistance.
In countries where governments are deficient, there are often alternative ways of providing assistance, including NGO’s.
Securing additional
assistance
from China and Russia – to supplement the support already provided by the SCO’s Central Asian members as well as SCO observers Pakistan and India – is imperative.
China and Russia could provide economic
assistance
and investment to Afghanistan, creating more projects that provide Afghanistan with badly needed jobs and revenue.
In turn, NATO and Afghan forces could assign troops to protect these projects from further attacks, ideally with some kind of Chinese and Russian financial
assistance
to blunt objections that Western soldiers are dying to enrich foreign companies.
China’s trading partners and foreign NGO’s can provide needed
assistance
to China by supporting programs that foster improvements in Chinese legality.
Despite past refusal by America’s Congress to fund programs to further the rule of law in China, recent US legislation authorizes modest efforts to provide
assistance
to increase China’s capacity to meet its obligations as a WTO member.
In Greece in 2015, it was, at least implicitly, part of the debate over the acceptance of the conditions for financial
assistance.
That moment marked the end of years of war and terrible hardship; the revolution had been won through blood, sacrifice, heroism, the mistakes of enemies, and the manipulative
assistance
of Stalin, who purported to be a friend.
While the Riga summit relaxed some of these caveats to allow
assistance
to allies in dire circumstances, Britain, Canada, the Netherlands, and the US are doing most of the fighting in southern Afghanistan, while French, German, and Italian troops are deployed in the quieter north.
Taiwan’s delayed re-awakening reflects the early reliance of its nationalist government on protection from the US and
assistance
from Japan.
Pakistan’s civil and military elite must create a broad consensus – perhaps with foreign assistance, but never with foreign meddling – on the constitutional roles of the prime minister, president, and the military.
A large share of our
assistance
is focused on India’s lagging states, making our work strongly inclusive.
The International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity – which I have the privilege to chair – has issued an urgent call for an increase in education funding to a level of 4-6% of total humanitarian
assistance.
More than 70 years ago, world leaders addressed the unprecedented humanitarian crisis following World War II by creating new institutions to bring immediate
assistance
to those in need.
For starters, we urgently need to harness innovation to expand our capacity to reach children who are cut off from
assistance
in besieged areas or communities controlled by extremists.
Only 4% of public development
assistance
is now earmarked for agriculture.
The European Commission and EU member states are therefore planning to increase their assistance, both through the European Development Fund and by developing new sources of financial support.
Today, just 10% of official development
assistance
from OECD countries is allocated to education reform in the Global South.
It made the valley of tears bearable both by offering financial and other
assistance
and by holding out the promise of membership and economic prosperity in the near future.
Colombia maintains close ties with the US, which has provided $6 billion in aid over the past ten years – almost all of it coming in the form of military
assistance
– to strengthen the government’s ability to confront the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and drug traffickers.
At the same time, the international community should work to improve the availability and effectiveness of official development
assistance.
This is particularly relevant as emerging development partners, especially the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), offer new kinds of aid packages that incorporate investment and non-financial
assistance.
The natural monetary-policy response is to increase liquidity, lower interest rates, and, in many cases, provide direct
assistance
in the form of loans from the central bank.
But, until the financial crisis, most Europeans assumed they were now far too wealthy to ever face the humiliation of asking the IMF for financial
assistance.
Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan's nuclear-proliferation network - which provided lethal
assistance
to nations such as Libya and North Korea - has been exposed and dismantled.
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