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Until recently, we have not done much about the black market (the 2008 Declaration of Istanbul marks the beginning of a determined struggle against this market), but we banned altruistic directed donations by living non-relatives out of fear that they would become that legal loophole.
Currently, we peddle the idea of quasi-non-commercial incentives for organ donations from both the deceased and the living.
But while donations may help stimulate initial demand, a more deliberate market approach will be needed to achieve price reductions.
The western media focuses on a tsunami in Asia; donations flow freely.
The Life You Can Save, like GiveWell and similar organizations, seeks to influence individual donors, encouraging them to think about where they can direct their donations to do the most good.
Most of them probably depend directly on donations from the Koch brothers and the lobbying organizations that they secretly finance.
Unlike the typical East Coast politician, Trump doesn’t depend on votes and donations from American Jews, and therefore has little reason not to criticize, even threaten, Israel publicly.
Fortunately, the American Red Cross and other organizations have been following the Rotary model, using private donations and private volunteers to fill the gap left by our political leaders.
As Eastern Europe’s democracies backslide politically, Soros has made donations to NGOs fighting corruption and authoritarianism.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu allows multi-million-dollar donations for settlement construction by right-wing donors like Sheldon Edelson.
China’s “influence operations,” they argue, include cultivating ties with Western politicians, establishing Confucius Institutes around the world to promote Chinese language and culture, expanding the global reach of China’s official propaganda networks, and donations to and exchange programs with academic institutions.
For example, public-disclosure requirements regarding the sources and conditions of donations to politicians, political parties, and civic and academic institutions, as well as ownership stakes in media assets, would make it much harder for the Chinese government to exert its influence through ostensibly private actors.
But allowing ethnic Chinese to be harassed, intimidated, or punished for exercising their civil and political rights – say, by making political donations or speaking out on issues that matter to them, including those related to China – would be a grave injustice.
He launched a series of legal proceedings to evict Palestinian families from their homes in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrach neighborhood and elsewhere, and established a fund (backed by donations from wealthy, right-wing Americans) to buy land from Palestinians in order to give it to Israelis – sort of a racist Robin Hood in reverse.
After all, when serving a vast democracy requires non-stop electioneering, and politicians are thus dependent on financial donations, governance is bound to go awry.
Instead, special interests compete for influence through campaign contributions and other forms of political donations.
If, with all of our technological advances and unprecedented private-sector donations, we cannot change the predicament of the poorest people for mere pennies per person, how can we truly expect to overcome the more challenging, costlier health and development challenges we face?
These drug donations for river blindness, trachoma (another blinding disease), leprosy, elephantiasis, worms, and bilharzia, as well as for sleeping sickness, give hope to millions.
In the end, either the euro will collapse, or a transfer union will be established in Europe, in which the current-account deficits will be financed with inter-country donations.
We need to go beyond donations and reduced-pricing schemes to build sustainable health-care systems with strong distribution channels and education programs for the public and for health-care workers.
Both India and the US have little public financing of elections, and large business donations that are legal in the US are often illegal (and hence given underhandedly) in India.
Disclosure may help democratize political donations, preventing them from having an undue influence in elections.
If I appoint an agent to manage my money, shouldn’t I want to know how much he spends on political donations in my (alleged) interest?
Why he did so is difficult to determine: quite plausibly, some combination of Lula’s realism, his reaction to stock-market declines attributed to his chances of being elected, and campaign donations was at work.
For two months, in a time of terror, I tried to find out what had happened, dodging police, contacting people in hiding, and handing over donations raised abroad to the victims and their families.
The first notable success occurred early in the year, when a Guinness World Record was set for the most donations of medication made during a 24-hour period.
The endowments built through these donations allow successive generations to enjoy the same opportunity for enrichment.
Indeed, ISIS has allegedly already solicited Bitcoin donations.
In the year 2000, Americans made private donations for foreign aid of all kinds totaling about $4 per person, or roughly $20 per family.
If parts of his legislative program do pass, they will become a further source of grievance, and candidates like Min will likely receive more donations.
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