The BBC's correspondent in Colombia, Jeremy McDermott, says the incident is embarrassing for both the Colombian and US governments - President George W Bush is increasing aid to what is already the third largest recipient of US military aid after Israel and Egypt.
Once a recipient of aid, South Korea has become a donor nation, supporting development from Asia to Africa.
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The publicly traded firm is the latest recipient of state aid under the so-called First Five program.
Germany has historic ties with Afghanistan, which in the 1970s was a big recipient of German aid.
Spain, currently the largest recipient of such aid, will fight to keep as much as it can manage.
Similarly, as the biggest recipient of regional aid, Poland wants a larger EU budget, setting itself against big countries, like Britain, that want a cut.
Afghanistan is the largest recipient of development aid from Canada.
Poland is the biggest recipient of EU regional development aid.
Over the past 30 years, Egypt has been the second-largest recipient of U.S. aid in the Middle East, after Israel.
Sudan is letting investors export 70% of the crop, even though it is the recipient of the largest food-aid operation in the world.
It said focusing on an abstract target could draw attention away from the effectiveness of aid, and its possible corrosive impact on the political systems in recipient countries.
Aid to many of today's poor countries is usually ineffective because the recipient has only a vague understanding of the sort of prospering economy they are trying to create.
According to the UNC-Wilmington financial aid office, a sophomore at the university is currently the scholarship's first and only recipient.
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