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It is not just that the assistance of odious governments is sometimes essential; it is also that there is nothing more difficult than remaking the internal workings of other societies.
Indeed, many of these countries remain vulnerable to volatile commodity prices, financial-system weaknesses, depressed demand from world markets, and shortfalls in external finance, overseas development assistance, and investment.
Third, Greece’s official creditors should be more attentive to the expected return on their assistance.
The resulting contract is all the more problematic because it is likely to involve one of the host country’s few important resources, which can generate more predictable (and probably higher) revenues than official development assistance – and over a long period of time.
Nor do the World Bank and regional development banks have the in-house expertise – or, as a rule, the funds – to provide technical assistance.
For 13 years I was privileged to lead an IMF whose strengths include fostering economic cooperation and providing advice and assistance to 182 countries as varied as the United States and the smallest Pacific island nation.
Moreover, all Arab regimes that made peace with Israel benefit from improved relations with the United States (i.e.: economic assistance), while Syria remains on the American list of terrorist states.
Thanks to this financial assistance, one-sixth of the world’s corn supply is burned in American cars.
Trump’s Self-Defeating Palestine PolicyJERUSALEM – US President Donald Trump’s administration decided last month to cut all funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides schools, health care, and other assistance to Palestinian refugees.
The experiences of countries that have “graduated” from Gavi assistance will also hold important lessons for other international health programs and their beneficiaries.
But China, with its newly articulated global ambitions, has an opportunity to reinvigorate the conception and delivery of humanitarian assistance.
The growing isolationism associated with the populist backlash around the world is having severe consequences for foreign assistance.
This is an alarming drop for these countries, given that official development assistance (ODA) accounts for more than two thirds of the aid they receive.
The European Union’s 2018 draft budget proposes a €90 million ($106 million) cut to development spending, while Austria, Germany, and Italy have all diverted development assistance budgets towards migration crises viewed as imminent national security threats.
To be sure, the EU budget contains flexible instruments, such as the EU Solidarity Fund, which provides emergency assistance after natural disasters.
Likewise, the Philippines – locked in a stand-off with China over the disputed Scarborough shoal – has set aside its resentment over Japan’s wartime occupation and accepted increased aid and naval assistance, including ten patrol vessels, worth $11 million each, to help with maritime surveillance.
Foreign assistance – including the major US role in wartime China – had no place in this story.
Only Iraqis, with international assistance, can transform their country.
The WTO’s Bali conference provided an important opportunity to develop a new trade-facilitation agreement that expedites the movement, release, and clearance of goods at border stations; clarifies and improves trade-related rules; enhances technical assistance; and encourages cooperation among border-control agencies.
The prolonged uncertainty drove Greeks to withdraw their bank deposits, the cash for which came from the €90 billion of emergency liquidity assistance provided by the European Central Bank.
However clear their non-guaranteed status, financially distressed cities or states – whether New York in the 1970s or Puerto Rico today – can put serious pressure on national political leaders to offer assistance.
Last year, migrants from developing countries sent an estimated $414 billion to their families – triple the total of official development assistance.
Fear of prosecution may discourage those coerced into prostitution or victimized by violence from seeking assistance.
Furthermore, under the Nordic model, clients who are robbed by prostitutes and their pimps fear to seek assistance from law enforcement.
(The same is true of the UK’s similar commitment to the United Nations to spend 0.7% of its GDP on international development assistance.)
Through dialogue, research, advice, technical assistance, and training, the IMF has helped create a global community of practice.
Countries ask for IMF financial assistance when they are in trouble and have lost or fear losing the ability to borrow on international markets.
Much of this has been achieved through regional and international assistance, but on June 7 the Lebanese people, through the ballot box, proved that they hold ultimate decision-making power over the country’s precarious but potentially promising future.
Two of the assailants are injured in the course of the fight and arrested after seeking medical assistance at a hospital.
Moreover, Obama recently announced the creation of the Build America Transportation Investment Center to provide technical assistance to state and local officials seeking private-sector partners to support transport infrastructure.
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