During the High-Level Forum, she participated in sessions on education, capacity development and knowledge sharing, and the impact of internationally agreed norms, goals and standards on aid effectiveness.

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Failing to do so, they said, will expose the U.S. to more charges of double standards and possibly aid the efforts of U.S. adversaries regionally.

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Houses were constructed, but according to the standards of an outside aid agency, not the needs of the people who had to live in them.

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In 2002, Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act, which requires schools to meet uniform test standards to qualify for federal aid.

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Also on Saturday, Syria and Iran accused the US of double standards over its decision to provide aid to rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad and said the move would only prolong the conflict.

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In the past forty-two years, he said, Africans have received five hundred and sixty-eight billion dollars in aid, yet there has been no appreciable improvement in their living standards.

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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.

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Give us more aid, the Poles are likely to say, or more time to upgrade our factories to rich-country standards.

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With the reallocation of some 5 to 6% of the world's aid budgets, and using a self-help model, we could see a massive improvement in the living standards of the world's poor in the next 10 to 20 years.

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