Mr Bodomo believes "family aid" is also more efficient, and that diaspora practices hold lessons for the wider aid industry.
One of the biggest challenges facing the aid industry is to create sustainable projects which can thrive without outsider financial support.
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Along the way, he brilliantly elucidates the relationship between incompetence and corruption, both in Sierra Leone and the aid industry at large.
But if the aid industry, and the UN in particular, succeeds in rehabilitating the victims of the tsunami, it will go a long way to rehabilitating itself as well.
There are plenty of forthright arguments against all these points - and the relative success of a social-media driven campaign like Stop Malaria shows that the established aid industry can often benefit from a good shake-up.
Iran replies that some of the allegations make no sense, that some of the documents are forgeries and that the high-explosive tests and other activities listed by the agency were done to aid civilian industry or else develop conventional weapons.
Many are skeptical that analytics can aid in the industry's ongoing battle to woo consumers who are increasingly distracted by games and social media.
An official in the auto industry said that bringing the Colombian pact into the negotiations could be a poison pill that would prevent passage of an auto industry aid package.
The officials familiar with the meeting said Obama, pushing the auto industry aid, made the case that dramatic action needs to be taken this year -- rather than after he is sworn into office -- because the Big Three U.S. automakers are bleeding cash at an alarming rate.
So how did all that government aid for the auto industry work out?
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In the longer term, the government has pledged to consider future requests for aid to help the farming industry recover.
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Obama did, however, strongly urge Bush to support billions of dollars in aid for the struggling auto industry during the increasingly likely lame-duck session of Congress, according to three officials briefed on the meeting.
With their industry and lots of aid money, the economy has been reborn: growing at 14% last year.
The issue of state aid has become increasingly emotive as competition in the industry has increased.
As in America, there is disagreement both within the industry and among politicians about whether special aid is needed and, if so, what form it should take.
Back in September, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) hosted an IPv6 workshop at which I challenged industry stakeholders to develop a tool to aid businesses and focus attention on the importance of deploying IPv6 within their companies.
We started out with aid to banks, of course that's now spread to the auto industry, and just this week we're finding out that the GMAC, this giant company that provides auto loans, is also getting help.
It permitted both repayable direct state aid (the European approach) covering up to a third of all development costs, known as launch aid, and indirect state aid (the American approach) if limited to 3% of the domestic industry's sales volume.
U.S. subsidies to the rice industry led to surpluses, which were then shipped to Haiti as free aid.
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With the possible exception of agriculture, the energy industry enjoys more outrageous subsidies, market distortions and other forms of disguised aid than any other.
He vowed to extend unemployment benefits for workers, to help families avoid foreclosure and to aid small businesses and strapped state and municipal governments as well as the U.S. auto industry, which has been pounded by plummeting sales.
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