The number of foreign civilians deployed in Afghanistan has been rising as international efforts there focus increasingly on development and aid.
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In September 2011 the Sahel Working Group, a coalition of development and aid outfits, published an influential report on the subject.
The International Trade Commission and Trade and Development Agency aid American exporters and domestic firms facing foreign competition.
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The difference is that whereas most Sierra Leoneans have no choice but to lie or steal for personal advancement, most development economists and aid workers do have a choice.
The U.S., as the largest foreign direct investor and the largest supplier of development aid and offering the largest market for Latin American exports, as well as the most active supporter of centrist democratic movements, played a significant role in this massive transition.
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There is much that Japan can be proud of since 1945 -- rapid recovery from war devastation, adopting a pacifist Constitution, the economic miracle, achieving the best living standards in the region, creating a robust democracy in a relatively egalitarian society, and promoting regional economic development through massive aid and technical cooperation.
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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Since then, the United States has reduced the pressure on Hosni Mubarak for real democratic reforms, in part because it regards him as a reliable ally and guarantor of stability in the Middle East. (Egypt receives almost two billion dollars a year in U.S. military and development aid.) During a January, 2007, visit to Egypt, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offered nothing but praise for Mubarak.
Donors also need to break down the artificial divide between humanitarian aid and long-term development aid, the report finds.
The villages, the brainchild of the economist Jeffrey Sachs, were set up in 10 countries to see whether it is possible to make faster progress towards the millennium development goals (MDGs) through an integrated approach to aid and development.
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Perhaps more telling is the fact that the money they send back home surpasses the amount of money the countries receive in direct foreign investment and official development aid.
The sheer scale of our oil reserves -- the world's largest -- guarantees the complete sustainability of the model in which the country's resources are used to stimulate growth in the economy and aid development.
Mr Alexander added that the government, together with Germany and France, was putting additional funds into the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, to aid work on establishing global agreements to prevent companies avoiding tax by moving profits from one country to another with a lower tax rate.
These indicators also increasingly serve to legitimise types of intervention and operating modes of aid and policies of development.
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If there is no beginning and end to conflict, it no longer makes sense to differentiate between development as conflict-prevention and humanitarian aid as conflict-relief.
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And soldiers and civilians are beginning to understand that development aid can benefit local people rather than foreign consultants and contractors.
Experience demonstrates ad nauseam that stable currencies enormously aid economic development and that currency instability is an insidious enemy of economic progress.
Aid and development money is drying up.
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The data will be analyzed and eventually used to aid the development of safety improvements in road design, cars, and driver training programs.
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"In addition to a black child owning dolls and other playthings that positively reflect their image, exposure to literature, art and other positive images will aid in the development of a healthy cultural awareness and appreciation, " she says.
Mr Reid, the group's convener, said it had been established as a focal point on the issues of aid, sustainable development and debt.
We should build new bridges to our friends in the region -- pressing forward on free trade, development aid, military cooperation and exchange programs.
In March 2011, the coalition announced a shake-up of overseas aid with ending of direct development aid to 16 countries and funds being "tightly focused" on those most in need.
He also chairs the Louisiana Council on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys, a statewide commission formed to aid the development of policy to better the lives of black males and families.
The city is brimming with aid agencies, development funds and foreign NGOs eager to shell out shillings.
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It must act now to halt the violence and create the conditions -- access and security -- so aid workers and peacekeepers can reach those in need and so development can proceed.
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Developing countries are looking for new and additional funds, not repackaged development aid.
Even if a gush of development funds is released, aid pipelines, and America's in particular, are notoriously long and twisted.
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The European Union has taken a different approach and has already removed all its sanctions and recently announced a 40m euro development aid package.
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