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But ongoing international assistance should be limited to providing voluntary good-governance templates.
The burning summer of 2010 may help Russians to understand that their very existence depends on whether the authorities can provide assistance in times of emergency.
There is little doubt that, in the absence of Venezuelan subsidies, Cuba will once again plunge into depression – as it did after Russian assistance dried up in early 1990s.
Europeans would be foolish to expect assistance from the incoming Trump administration.
All of this will make it more difficult for the United States to get things done in the world – and for Obama to have any chance of meeting the expectations being set for him – without the active assistance of others.
But official development assistance (ODA) last year amounted to $119.6 billion, or just 0.31% of the developed countries’ GDP – not even half of the UN’s target of 0.7% of GDP.
Weak capacity to absorb aid on the part of recipient countries is no excuse for donor-driven and donor-directed assistance.
Aligning their assistance with national development strategies and structures, or helping countries devise such strategies and structures, ensures that their aid is usefully spent and guarantees the sustainability of their efforts.
Although EU assistance from the Barcelona process is significant, it does not have a decisive impact on Maghreb economies.
Privatizing Development AidLONDON – Much has changed about official development assistance (ODA) over the last 50 years.
To be sure, it is widely agreed that aid for disaster relief and assistance to conflict-affected countries are effective.
In fact, there is a strong case for involving the private sector in development assistance.
The country was the first of the world’s leading economies to provide financial assistance to Ukraine after Putin’s placeman, President Viktor Yanukovych, was ousted last year.
Rather than rich countries giving more lectures about poor governance, real solutions will require that rich countries give sufficient financial assistance to overcome the deeper barriers.
Even if Malawi is well governed, its people will die of disease in large numbers unless Malawi receives adequate assistance.
Once again, greater foreign assistance will be needed.
New Paths for Leadership in International DevelopmentSEATTLE – Official development assistance (ODA) helps to save lives, build more stable and safer societies, and project soft power around the world.
One option targets my own country, the United States, which currently gives only around 0.17% of gross national income for development aid, or roughly one-quarter of the international target of 0.7% of GNI for development assistance.
In fact, the total additional assistance the government has provided – $90 million (with promises of an unspecified additional amount) – amounts to less than half of what the state government was requesting for immediate relief.
That stance first became apparent as the crisis was unfolding, when the United Arab Emirates – which is home to some two million Keralites – reportedly offered assistance totaling $100 million.
Indian missions abroad have been instructed to turn down offers of assistance.
Paragraph 9.2 of the plan states that the government does not issue any appeal for foreign assistance in the wake of a disaster, but can accept such assistance, if another national government offers it voluntarily, “as a goodwill gesture in solidarity with the disaster victims.”
The rejection of foreign assistance is not even a fundamental BJP policy.
After the 2001 Bhuj Earthquake in Gujarat – where Modi himself was Chief Minister – the BJP-led central government accepted international assistance.
And India sweetened the generals’ tea by providing military assistance and intelligence support to their own never-ending counter-insurgencies.India’s journey was complete: from standing up for democracy, India had graduated to aiding and abetting the military regime in Rangoon (now Yangon).
Unarmed observers could also help to ensure that emergency international food assistance, on which much of Zimbabwe’s population now depends for survival, is distributed equitably, without regard to the political leanings of those requiring it.
Great as they are, the costs are trivial in comparison to the expense of humanitarian aid, international military intervention, and reconstruction assistance.
Greece was the first country to seek financial assistance from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund, with a bailout program negotiated in May 2010.
The issuance of Eurobonds would imply subsidizing debt-service costs for less creditworthy countries, raising the specter of a “transfer economy” – poorer countries’ permanent dependence on rich countries’ assistance – which Germany strongly opposes.
A new global financial-services rulebook, including tougher regulation and strengthened supervision, as well as trade liberalization and higher volumes of appropriately targeted development assistance, would also contribute decisively to raising the standards of international economic governance.
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