That is debt, trade, aid, investment, conflict resolutions, the problems of healthcare and education.
But much of the recent Chinese aid and investment has gone to nations that already recognize Beijing.
They need US aid and investment, and in many cases they feel they need US military protection.
North Korea wants a return of large-scale aid and investment from South Korea.
Under the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad), countries will get aid and investment in return for better governance.
Remittances had been seen as more resilient in an economic downturn than aid and investment flows, perhaps because the senders of cash have personal ties with the recipients.
How Thein Sein responds to inevitable questioning about these issues during his European tour will influence how quickly his host countries are willing to put their faith in the new Burma, and replace sanctions with much-needed aid and investment, our correspondent says.
The South African president said that the G8 had shown commitment towards Nepad, the development programme for Africa in which rich countries promise more aid and investment in return for efforts by African leaders to raise standards of government and monitor each other's performance.
The big unresolved question for the new donors, argues Duncan Green, head of research at Oxfam, an NGO, is how far they adopt the policies and institutions of Western donors or how far they go their own way, blurring boundaries between aid and investment.
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Angola, to the south, has been receiving so much aid and investment from China that in 2006 it decided it had no need of the International Monetary Fund's billions and all the tiresome requirements for transparency and sound economic management that come with them.
China has also been pouring aid and investment into the Caribbean over the last decade as part of a long-term strategy to cultivate diplomatic support at the United Nations and to establish a strategic foothold in parts of the world long dominated by the West.
In some cases they account for bigger flows of capital than aid or foreign investment.
Good behaviour, if they can manage it, will probably earn them some more aid and perhaps investment.
In 2007, foreign aid outstripped foreign investment by 10:1.
Foreign donors have promised aid and private foreign investment looks set to rise gradually.
Mr Castro, who seeks more foreign trade, investment and aid, appears unwilling to crush the Varela Project outright.
Africa loses more through what it calls "illicit outflows" than it gets in aid and foreign direct investment, it explains.
These young people, like the East African citizen-activist group Twaweza, are technosavvy and making aid more effective and investment more attractive.
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Such misrule means Zimbabwe will remain isolated, without investment, aid or loans.
She details investment and aid in a large number of countries that have no obvious mineral or resource wealth that China would want to export.
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The U.S. is encouraging Beijing to boost its investment and aid in Afghanistan and backs its participation in various peace-seeking initiatives, including a Pakistan-Afghanistan-China forum that met last month for the second time.
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As such, 529 plans offer favorable tax and financial aid treatment compared to other investment options.
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Syria's nascent economic reform programme needs to be buttressed by a significant increase in foreign direct investment and development aid.
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EMU, they insist, plays only a small part in such decisions, as does the government aid offered to lure inward investment.
It's an enormous cost burden for a developing economy to bear - which is why the past, African governments have preferred to rely on private investment and foreign aid.
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.
But it decided that the euro9 billion offered to France Telecom during a financial crisis in 2002 but not taken up, while constituting state aid because it encouraged private investment in the telecom giant, would attract no penalty.
Instead, investment banks should serve their shareholders and partners by maximizing profits and compensation while explicitly stating that no government aid will ever be taken should private investment dry up.
She also called for responsible investment in Myanmar to aid its economic development.
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