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But the Bank also provides grants and low-interest loans to the poorest countries, particularly for education and health, and advises these countries on development strategies.
This financing will be complemented by a $2 billion “buy down” fund, which will use the new grants from donors to offer financing on terms that developing countries can afford.
And since a lot of the aid is in the form of loans rather than grants, the poor countries get even deeper into debt as they are encouraged to purchase supplies, products, and technical assistance from the rich countries.
German policymakers, for their part, could not easily help Macron bifurcate the EU even if they wanted to, because Germany’s constitution grants the Bundestag the inalienable authority to manage the country’s fiscal affairs.
Nature, after all, had the luxury of time, billions of years of it, whereas we mortals must demonstrate progress before our research grants run out.
In recent decades, senior military officers have been transformed into powerful landlords through grants of choice agricultural lands and real estate.
Since official certification of martyrdom is tied to land grants and compensation to families, this question carries very real material significance.
Even for women who do get on the academic ladder, the climb is slowed by inadequate opportunities for grants, promotions, and leadership.
Launching similar training efforts in other countries could have a profound impact on how science grants are awarded – and how many are awarded to women.
For example, the US Department of Education’s Race to the Top Fund, which offered $4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that hold promise for school systems across the country.
Likewise, the new federal Social Innovation Fund provides grants to social-sector intermediaries – foundations, non-profits, and social enterprises – that develop new programs to tackle problems like unequal educational opportunity.
These grants are awarded on a competitive basis, and funding is contingent on achieving measurable outcomes.
According to a recent study, impact investing in the US would not exist without the support of and partnership with the federal government through grants, loans, and guarantees.
A comprehensive Mexican program, PROGRESA, delivers targeted education grants for children, health-care services and nutritional supplements for pregnant women, nursing mothers, and children under five, and annual health check-ups for other household members.
Hundreds of European scholars are circulating a petition calling for a boycott of Israeli institutions; other academics want the EU to deny grants to Israeli universities and scientific institutions.
Moreover, R&D incentives for the private sector – provided through tax relief, grants, or prizes – must be made accessible to firms in an equitable way.
In the US, that would include such coveted funding as Title I grants for primary and secondary education, and Title IV subsidized student loans for higher education.
If Turkey grants its own Kurdish minority more cultural and language rights and allows legitimate Kurdish political representation in the Turkish parliament, the willingness of Turkish Kurds to oppose Ankara will be diminished.
There were so many generous subsidies, grants, and transfer payments – aimed at everyone from the truly needy to artists unable to sell their work – that after-tax wages were often barely higher than benefits.
Women in South Africa applying for child support grants have reported similar experiences, as have food bank users in the UK.
They are entitled to grants, and should not be obliged to repay the monies they receive.
For example, governments could use individual skill accounts to provide training grants throughout people’s working lives, conditional on stronger private-sector involvement in training and skills development.
Last April, Abdul Aziz al-Ghurair, a billionaire businessman from the United Arab Emirates, launched the Arab world’s largest education fund, allocating $1.14 billion in grants for underserved youth from the region.
Initiated by a broad coalition of county leaders and funded by a combination of county sales tax, federal grants, and philanthropy, the Big Lift has raised $28 million and gotten more than 200 organizations involved.
Another perversion of democracy is the fact that the supra-national body that is to administer the "united economic space" grants Ukraine and its 49 million people only 9.9% of votes, while it gives Russia and its 140 million people 83%.
An international organization could have simply used the existing infrastructure of the Russian state to distribute cash grants to some 20 million pensioners – money that would have been much better targeted and spent than by giving the same amount to the government.
But Russia, owing to a rise in its national income, no longer is eligible for HIV/AIDS Global Fund grants.
The additional financing would complement domestic resources, bilateral aid, and multilateral grants that are already available through programs like the Global Partnership for Education.
European universities, recognizing the reputational gains associated with ERC grants, have started to compete for them, leading to greater awareness of the need to nurture the talented younger researchers in their midst.
With at least 80% of the population dependent on government salaries or grants, the attacks have proved very unpopular.
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