Yet apart from Japan, official aid levels to Myanmar are pitiful compared even with other poor countries.
But pressure may yet grow for commercial sanctions or cuts in official aid.
Better still, they should make further increases in their official aid budgets to take on these diseases, both bilaterally and through global funds.
One of the main beneficiaries of a skilled workforce, the private sector, presently contributes the equivalent of 5% of total official aid to education.
No official aid is given for presenting a project in Spanish.
The ECB followed up by announcing its plan for so-called Outright Market Transactions, under which it would buy bonds of euro-zone governments requesting an official aid program and complying with the attached conditions.
Instead, transfers are likely to keep growing, as the government scrabbles to meet an international pledge to lift official aid spending from about 0.5% of gross national income today to 0.7% by 2013 (see chart).
But Regina Rabinovich of the Gates Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic agencies in the world, says small private gifts complement official aid in multiple ways: when simple folk empty their pockets, that bolsters political support for government help.
So far, at least, Britons, who are also generous private givers, seem not to begrudge official foreign aid.
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.
Some 40% of official British aid goes through the UN, the World Bank and 30-odd other multilateral organisations, with agencies such as UNESCO and the Food and Agriculture Organisation seen as particularly feeble.
The report cited unnamed US officials' assessments that there was little evidence the payment bought the influence the CIA sought, and said that the cash was not subject to the conditions placed on official US aid.
An aid official in Damascus showed me the figures on their website.
Meanwhile, the first major ground shipment of food aid arrived in Afghanistan on Tuesday after crossing the Iranian border, a U.N. aid official said.
The World Food Programme warns that the policy could risk the official UN food aid programme - Operation Lifeline Sudan, which has been distributing food around Sudan for the last ten years.
Were donor agencies fully to comply with this requirement and transact their aid at the official rate, around 90% of the value of their aid would be captured by the central bank, which would be purchasing the aid dollars at around a tenth of their value.
In mid-March, Legal Aid Foundation official Mulyana Kusumah and about 50 other activists launched an independent group to monitor the polls.
Beattie, the aid agency official, has noticed the same phenomena.
Iranian officials have traveled to Damascus to deliver the aid, the official said.
So I do not doubt that there are criticisms that can be made of the official institutions and of the aid system generally.
's top humanitarian official, Jan Egeland, says aid workers and civilians are getting caught in the crossfire in an increasingly complex war.
But since Sangatte's closure, migrants have had nowhere official to stay in the town and aid agencies say there is a strong humanitarian case for providing them with shelter.
As a condition for further aid, Greece's official lenders have demanded cross-party support for the overhaul and austerity program to ensure there is no backsliding after a new government takes office later this spring.
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According to this so-called "Monterrey Consensus, " the United States and other developed nations are obliged to provide 0.7 percent of their gross national income in foreign aid (also known as Official Development Assistance or ODA).
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They contend that, pursuant to agreed Millennium Development Goals contained in the Report of the International Conference on Financing for Development (dubbed the "the Monterrey Consensus"), the United States and other developed nations are obliged to provide 0.7 percent of their gross national income in foreign aid (also known as Official Development Assistance or ODA).
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"All the measures are taken in the context of voluntary return, accompanied by humanitarian aid, " said French immigration ministry official Frederique Doublet.
The U.S. has been irritated too by the EU's agreement that Persson should make an official visit to North and South Korea seeking to aid the reconciliation process on the peninsula.
That is UN-speak for a commitment developed nations like the United States undertook in 2002 to commit 0.7% of their gross domestic product to Official Development Assistance (ODA, also known as foreign aid).
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