It is especially difficult to think of this as a way to finance international development aid.
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U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) programs funded by the "Solarz Amendment" that provide refugee assistance and train teachers and civil administrators in the non-communist refugee camps should be expanded.
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As the ranking man on the ground for the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), his hands are also closest to the purse strings, since his State Department branch is funding and contracting out much of the work.
The UK's Department for International Development said the aid would help to supply emergency water, sanitation and healthcare to more than 58, 000 people.
They sought donations for a local madrassah project and a legitimate international development British charity, Muslim Aid.
Dr Williams is to take up a new post as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and will also serve as chairman of the board of trustees at Christian Aid, the international development agency.
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Dr. Dilip Joseph and two other staff members for the international aid group Morning Star Development were kidnapped by armed men on December 5 as they returned from a rural medical clinic in eastern Kabul province.
The International Trade Commission and Trade and Development Agency aid American exporters and domestic firms facing foreign competition.
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The number of foreign civilians deployed in Afghanistan has been rising as international efforts there focus increasingly on development and aid.
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And watch out for the International Development Committee's report on whether the UK should continue to provide development aid to India - a country which critics point out has its own space and nuclear weapons programmes.
The move coincides with a re-branding of the overseas aid committee, now called International Development.
The UK is to end financial aid to India by 2015, international development secretary Justine Greening has said.
Britain's aid ministry, the Department for International Development, believes that by handing its grants straight to African governments and letting them get on with the job, it will strengthen the governments' sense of responsibility for helping their countries' needy and encourage their people to understand that the long-term answer to their problems is better government, rather than the generosity of foreigners.
Shadow International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander called on the minister to clarify exactly how the aid money would be spent.
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International development minister George Foulkes, visiting Kent International Airport to see the first direct aid from the UK to be sent out, said the UK had been at the forefront of responding to Mozambique's request for help.
One reason for the lack of agreed mechanisms is the continued schism in the international aid community over the role that markets are supposed to play in development, and the way that discussions of development often become discussions on the merits of globalization.
The Multilateral Aid Review (MAR), conducted by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), assesses 43 multilateral organisations, including UNESCO.
Food and humanitarian aid, mostly administered by the U.S. Agency for International Development, would not be affected by the announcement, she said.
Many international aid advocates have pushed for notions of self-sufficiency and dignity in economic development, and their cause is one that should be promoted here in the United States.
Partly because his budget is an unusual "ring-fenced" one, while other departments are being cut, the head of DfID - International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell - constantly emphasises his quest for value for money, for both aid recipients and the British taxpayer.
The Commons International Development Committee said dependable tax revenues were a far better route out of poverty than reliance on overseas aid.
The UK government is increasing the overall overseas development budget to meet a longstanding international commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on aid.
But although few people in the world of international development would favour spending money on guns rather than vaccines for children, there are places where "aid" and "security" overlap.
The Commons international development committee said the UK should reconsider its ambition of building Afghan government institutions in favour of more traditional aid targets.
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