The story itself starts with the idea that yes indeed, we would like to aid the poor of this world in becoming richer.
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It outlined a social agenda that called for, among others, insurance coverage and subsidies to aid the poor and unemployed during times of economic flux.
The idea of extra aid to the poor is one I certainly fully support.
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Vincent Tan: The main causes I support include community causes (provide aid for the poor, children, elderly folks), health causes (provide support and financial aid for treatment of diseases like AIDS, kidney ailments, cancer, free acupuncture centre), education (providing scholarships for education, and free education for underprivileged children and youth), environmental preservation (protection and preservation of coral growth), support and promotion of local performing arts, and humanitarian assistance for disaster relief.
Bill Gates is announcing that he supports the Robin Hood, or Financial Transactions, Tax in order to raise revenue to be spent on aid to the poor in the Third World.
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He has doled out financial aid to the poor in his dozens of visits across the country and recently more than doubled the salaries of government employees and retirees' pensions.
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Raising revenues from the richest among us ( Microsoft, Google and Chevron) to aid the elderly, the desperately poor, the sick and the disabled, is not really even on the table.
Despite hostility from Britain and the US, the Microsoft founder will add weight to the growing campaign for a so-called Robin Hood tax when he tells the two-day summit in Cannes that a levy on finance would help hard-pressed rich nations to meet their aid pledges to the poor.
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It would cut farm subsidies, Medicare, student aid, housing subsidies for the poor, and funding for community development grants.
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The European debt crisis has led to cuts in government development aid to poor countries, says a new report by the aid watchdog Data.
This capital loss is going to make you look poor in the aid applications, too.
Critics also accused Mutharika of jeopardizing international relations and risking foreign aid that benefits the nation's poor.
Many mandatory programmes like the Social Security pension programme, Medicaid healthcare for the poor, food aid, and others will not be affected.
Some of it could be blamed on outside agencies entrusted by the commission to distribute aid in poor countries or to set up projects for vocational training or tourism.
The Board of Regents, which governs school policy but doesn't set funding, urged the Legislature this month to change the way it distributes aid so poor districts get more.
The blustery conditions and poor pitch in the second half did little to aid the game as a spectacle.
James Tobin had originally proposed that revenues from the tax be used for aid to poor countries.
But the U.N. forces and Food for the Poor, among other aid groups, are still fighting to make things better.
"The case for continued UK aid to India is about a third of all the world's poor who live there, " says Dr Sumner.
Like Watson, Horton believed the fastest and cheapest way to aid poor countries was to turn existing laboratory compounds into new drugs.
Like Watson, Horton believed the fastest and cheapest way to aid poor countries was to turn existing lab compounds into new drugs.
And they can focus their overseas aid on the issue that is most difficult for poor countries to deal with themselves: disease.
At one point, it even tried financing itself from the tiny savings of the poor (ie, no aid at all), though this drastic form of self-help proved a step too far: hardly any lenders or borrowers put themselves forward.
Under that bargain, the poor countries were to have the Millennium Development Goals reaffirmed, along with promises of more aid and debt relief, a pledge to tackle climate change and progress on disarmament.
As Andy Sumner of the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University has argued, the West's aid business has grown up in poor, stable places, such as Tanzania.
Poor countries around the world need foreign aid from China.
She says the practice of big foreign aid agencies shipping in food to poor countries like Haiti needs to be modified.
Democrat-supported programs including tax credits for the working poor, AIDS research, college funding and aid to cities.
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However, it currently only spends just over 2 million per year in aid to the sector when it has the potential to reach many more poor countries with its resources.
Management of a fund for climate aid to poor countries has also been agreed, though how to raise the money has not.
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