Italian pasta and Indian rice are sold alongside milk powder from Dubai and reminders of recent aid dependency in the form of cooking oil from the World Food Programme.

ECONOMIST: Surprising Somalia

"If developing countries are to escape from aid dependency, and from poverty more broadly, it is imperative that their revenue authorities are able to collect taxes effectively, " the committee's chairman, Lib Dem MP Malcolm Bruce said.

BBC: UK Politics

Providing excessive and non-sustainable recovery assistance to southern Mozambique will reawaken a culture of aid-dependency in a region that was finally beginning to break free from it.

ECONOMIST: Letters

During that time Haitians have developed a dependency on humanitarian aid rather than relying on the Haitian government for even the most basic public services.

FORBES: Haiti's Second Revolution

Their national governments have placed importance on the development of a quality education system but geographical difficulties, migration to main centres, limited resources and heavy dependency on external aid for quality improvement in education make the task challenging.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN APIA

Rakova says there is a growing dependency culture on the island as people rely on international aid for food, which is destroying the social and cultural fabric of the Carterets.

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