Yet most of the aid programme has been bungled and has therefore proved largely ineffective.
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Meanwhile, Japan is scaling back its foreign aid programme in the teeth of a domestic recession.
In April this year the Chinese government issued its first white paper on its foreign-aid programme.
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Hence the government will end the Aid and Trade Provision, a tied-aid programme (although it will not cut out tied aid altogether).
American officials point to the relative success of Plan Colombia, a much bigger aid programme, in reducing drug-related violence in that country.
These dangers were highlighted during the last western food-aid programme, in 1991-92.
After the war he spent some time in government advising on Germany and working on the Marshall plan, America's aid programme for Europe.
The Ministry of Justice recently carried out a consultation process and officials say no final decision has been made on the future of the legal aid programme.
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The United States would be wise to reshape its aid programme, to take more account of the paramilitary threat and of the need to strengthen the state.
The much-touted American aid programme meant to promote reform, the Middle East Partnership Initiative, gets less cash in a year than what America spends in Iraq in a day.
Some Indian politicians and diplomats do not like Britain's large aid programme because this is not the image of a land with global middle class aspirations they want to project.
During the Eisenhower administration he ran America's foreign-aid programme.
They could, for example, lead an aid programme that would tie money for roads, ports and security hardware to increases in the tax take to pay for better security and social conditions.
The World Food Programme warns that the policy could risk the official UN food aid programme - Operation Lifeline Sudan, which has been distributing food around Sudan for the last ten years.
The focus on eliminating export subsidies, which are used far more by the Europeans than by America, obscures the fact that America's export credits and its food-aid programme distort global farm trade too.
The worst outcome, a highly discriminatory treatment of foreign holders of government debt, has been avoided (or at least postponed) thanks to frantic lobbying by, among others, the International Monetary Fund, which threatened to cancel the second tranche of its aid programme to Russia.
Ironically, says Rob Cunningham, Christian Aid's programme manager for South Africa, just as the word is taking off in Western society the values it embodies are in decline in the land of its origin.
The US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, who appeared with Mrs Clinton at the news conference, warned that international banks should be wary of doing any business with Iran that might aid its nuclear programme.
Thus, leaving aside natural disasters, such as the periodic droughts that sweep Brazil's north-east, a huge programme of food aid might be missing the point.
William Powell, Welsh Liberal Democrat farming spokesman, said he shared the unions' "severe disappointment", that there was to be no programme of direct financial aid.
However German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble said he "regretted" the vote and that Cypriots must understand that European Central Bank aid was contingent on a reform programme.
Under his tenure, the BBC broadcast Live Aid and launched its first breakfast television programme.
And it kicked out a number of aid agencies, including the World Food Programme, that monitor the food situation.
Russia has also been trying to persuade the North to restart regional talks over its nuclear-weapons programme in return for more aid.
Wildlife Aid Fund director Chris Mitchell said the programme was becoming popular as children liked the role-playing educational games involved, and the messages attached to it.
One of the freighters has been chartered by the UN World Food Programme to bring in food aid, which is the biggest earner for local transport contractors.
Jim Wallis, the president of a network of faith-based charities, doubts there will be a problem with the recipients of church aid (they can always leave the programme), but finds another glitch.
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