If subsidies go to industries with fewer competitors, they do not aid innovation or productivity growth.
In the absence of complete evidence, inflammatory comments and belligerent reactions will not aid the search for justice.
Assuming the physical evidence does not aid the jury in a "he said, she said" case, how does it decide whom to believe?
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Murray did not aid his cause by beginning an affair behind his wife's back with a 23-year-old English teacher turned lap dancer, Nadira Alieva.
The pitch, which looked in fabulous condition at the start, began to cut up and so did not aid the footballing spectacle or the weary players.
For example, swimmers are unlikely to be tested for beta blockers - which can help calm the nerves but do not aid endurance - but divers definitely will be.
The AP's supporters also said Meltwater's service does not amount to "fair use" because it copies material without alteration, does not aid the public good and damages the market for copyrighted work.
What comes most convincingly out of Mr Collier's book is that aid from the guilt-ridden West is not the answer, or at least not the main answer, and certainly not aid as it has so often been disbursed.
By treating citizens of the developing world as consumers and not aid recipients, the private sector has dramatically lowered the cost of many household goods that we take for granted and promoted business practices that benefit entire societies while enriching local entrepreneurs.
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As with past natural disasters, the Sandy aid bill does not offset the aid with spending cuts, meaning the aid comes at the cost of higher deficits.
The government is expected to offer tax breaks, if not direct aid, to soak up insurance costs.
Visibility into these gaps will not only aid workforce planning, but also enable more effective succession planning and recruiting.
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There has been concern about the security situation in Haiti, with fears that people not receiving aid would turn to violence.
The setback has not stopped aid organisations from operating in the area.
America, meanwhile, wants to focus on improving governance in poor countries, not more aid, and remains hostile to the Kyoto protocol on climate change.
Both the United States and the EU, Zimbabwe's biggest donors, have said they will not resume aid until a power-sharing government is set up.
So far, though, the United States has asked Nato countries for help on an individual basis and not requested aid from the alliance as a bloc.
Gut flora were once thought to be harmless residents of the guts of mammals, and in time it became clear that they not only aid in digestion but also protect against the arrival of more harmful invaders.
John O'Shea of Irish charity Goal told the Guardian newspaper he could not allow aid workers to move into Haiti from the Dominican Republican because he had "no guarantee that the people driving them are not going to be macheted to death on the way down".
Rather, with so many variables involved in qualifying for some forms of aid, and not knowing if that aid will come in the form of a student loan or a scholarship at most universities, perhaps more families will rise up to the challenge and create cool strategies to pay for college, with or without financial aid.
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Other Latin American countries are also hoping to reach an association deal with the Europeans, if not generous financial aid packages, but observers say the EU is not ready to commit itself to further close partnerships.
Bluntly put, one could say that wherever and whenever aid has failed as a development tool it has done so because donors did not intend the aid for development in the first place.
Yet, encouragingly, donor governments have so far been at pains to promise that tsunami-related aid will not be at the expense of existing aid budgets.
Hence the government will end the Aid and Trade Provision, a tied-aid programme (although it will not cut out tied aid altogether).
But others are saying not so fast, that the aid is just not enough to really eliminate the worst forms of poverty in Africa, and the leaders should have done a lot more.
If you are not comfortable with these terms, this attractive form of aid may not make sense to you.
Away from this centre, there are hundreds of families who are not getting government aid.
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