In 2007, foreign aid outstripped foreign investment by 10:1.
If you ask a lot of folks what accounts for the federal budget, they'll say foreign aid and pork projects, and if you just eliminated all the foreign aid and the pork projects, somehow we'd bring our deficit under control.
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We should key our foreign aid, our direct foreign investment -- and that of our friends -- we should coordinate it to make sure that we push back and give them more economic development.
Foreign donors have promised aid and private foreign investment looks set to rise gradually.
In some cases they account for bigger flows of capital than aid or foreign investment.
Africa loses more through what it calls "illicit outflows" than it gets in aid and foreign direct investment, it explains.
Aid from foreign financial institutions would be strictly conditional.
First, foreign aid should be specifically allocated to infrastructure, a commitment from foreign governments to donate a specific amount over a twenty-year period toward road building, improvement of electrical grids, and ports, and training for Haitians so they can properly maintain the new infrastructure.
The Republicans wish to move aid to Israel to the Pentagon's budget because that assistance is the most popular item on the US foreign aid budget.
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Finally, Washington should stop treating the defense budget as a form of foreign aid.
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If you ask your average constituent where does federal dollars go, they'll tell you foreign aid.
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The impoverished country has no access to the sea and is heavily dependent on foreign aid.
The 2009 coup has left Madagascar isolated by the international community and deprived of foreign aid.
Why has all the foreign aid of the past half century failed to make a dent?
This is precisely the kind of foreign aid that American taxpayers should be concerned about.
Arafat's three main sources of cash: foreign aid, Israeli tax transfers and profits from PA-controlled companies.
Haitian tradition holds that the country needs foreign aid to get back on its feet.
Foreign aid is also a national security issue, serving as an important humanitarian diplomacy.
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Meanwhile, the Tanzanian government can continue to rely on budgets boosted by foreign aid.
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All of this would mean nothing if Malawi was not so reliant on foreign aid.
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Foreign aid workers affirm that the government tries to spread its resources as widely as possible.
Uganda, dependent on foreign aid for 55% of its budget, would be especially vulnerable.
It is crisscrossed with canals and irrigation ditches built by U.S. foreign aid in the 1950s.
Given America's general stinginess when it comes to foreign aid, their concern is understandable.
For her part, Clinton complained about the congressional holds placed on foreign aid and bilateral assistance.
But for those serious about reducing the deficit, foreign aid is hardly the place to start.
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In an election year, congressmen are loth to support anything that smacks of foreign aid.
Meanwhile, Japan is scaling back its foreign aid programme in the teeth of a domestic recession.
Similarly, the threat of losing foreign aid or preferential market-access may concentrate minds in the Caribbean.
The trouble is, foreign aid has rarely been allocated with these points in mind.
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