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Before that decision is reached, the international community needs to provide humanitarian assistance and medical supplies to the rebels in eastern Libya.
India has a 3,000-kilometer border with China, a 2,000-kilometer border with Pakistan (which has been the beneficiary of Chinese military and nuclear assistance), and growing concerns about the security of sea routes in the Indian Ocean over which oil and other trade move.
The countries neighboring Syria and Iraq are facing the largest inflows of refugees fleeing the violence there, and the UNHCR has appealed for assistance in resettling a limited number of the neediest.
If this is true in a country like the US, with a reasonably efficient infrastructure and the resources to help its citizens in times of crisis, it is even more evident when disasters strike developing countries, because their governments lack the resources needed, and because, when it comes to foreign assistance, rich nations still do not count all human lives equally.
Here, too, the new government will need international assistance if it is to recover at least some of this loot.
Needy consumers, not wealthy producers, should receive assistance.
Independent of these numbers, however, the debt forgiveness debate perpetuates the legend that the West is responsible for the oppressive debt burdens of poor countries, and, more generally, for the scarcity of assistance to help them fight poverty.
Empirical research amply demonstrates that development assistance is largely ineffective because it is given indiscriminately to governments who use it to enrich a tiny elite.
The ex-imperial powers favored their ex-colonies, regardless of whether they deserved assistance or how they used it.
In Italy, things were even worse: development assistance was largely disbursed in order to favor foreign friends of Italian politicians.
The troika negotiated what ended up being the largest financial assistance packages ever: loans to Greece from the IMF and European partners are set to reach €240 billion ($310 billion), or 130% of the country’s 2013 GDP – far more in both absolute and relative terms than any country has ever received.
Now the IMF has even accepted a minority-lender role, with the bulk of assistance coming from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a new institution often viewed as an embryonic European Monetary Fund.
It is frequently argued that the size of the assistance packages is a testament to Europe’s clout within the IMF.
Prolonged controversies over the terms and conditions of assistance and the absurdly high interest rate initially set on official loans exacted a heavy toll on countries already under stress.
Finally, Europe should transform the ESM into a European Monetary Fund capable of providing policy assessment and advice, as well as financial assistance – possibly drawing on European Commission staff.
The troika has proved functional, and Europe would have been at pains to provide conditional assistance to eurozone countries without the IMF’s participation and support.
But the federal government doesn’t provide such assistance on a large scale, presumably because it makes no effort to provide compensation to those who lose their jobs because of technological change.
The West must debate the choice: Accept the narrowing of the opportunities originally promised by competitive capitalism and provide permanent social assistance to those left out.
Given the complexities of trafficking, can apps like these truly provide the assistance their users may need?
It is now 19 months after Bear Stearns failed and was taken over by JP MorganChase with the assistance of up to $30 billion of Federal Reserve money on March 16, 2008, and industrial production stands 14% below its peak in 2007.
In addition to payments through the UN, high-income countries make direct payments to poorer countries in the form of official development assistance.
Without committing itself to any substantive assistance, the Chinese government has publicly demanded that the European Union grant China the coveted status of “market economy” if it expects China to loosen its purse strings.
While the attempt by Chinese officials to extract a huge concession – market-economy status – is ill-timed and in poor taste, China’s government needs to weigh the significant benefits that it could receive by providing limited but meaningful assistance to Europe in its hour of need.
Not only did the US provide military protection to Japan - allowing Japan to concentrate on industrial goals - but it also provided vast economic assistance, including massive technology transfers and, most important, opening up its market to Japanese exports while allowing Japan to protect its home market.
As thousands died, the government froze, proving itself incapable of mounting an efficient rescue operation and displaying its ludicrous machismo by refusing the assistance of the US 7 th Fleet.
At the very least, a multilateral negotiation would provide an occasion to recognize the existence of the problem, reflect on how best to coordinate investments, and help move development assistance accordingly.
Despite the complexity involved and the need for technical assistance to the weakest nations in the negotiation, a multilateral investment agreement should be among the top priorities on the international agenda.
And the United States is legally prohibited from supporting any loans or other forms of assistance offered to state sponsors of terrorism by international financial institutions of which the US is a member.
And providing massive humanitarian assistance to the refugees (at which the American military is very effective) would increase US soft power enormously.
Trump’s presidency provides China with new opportunities to cement its role as a provider of investment and all manner of infrastructure and assistance to a host of countries eager to develop.
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