The World Bank and two European development banks agreed last week to provide up to thirty-one billion dollars in aid to central and eastern Europe.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

"And,we ended up being involved in state-building and counter-narcotics and human rights and nation development, which actually took the focus away from the main priority."

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

The report,Promoting Development, Saving the Planet,said that up to $1 trillion a year would be needed to deal with issues of climate change in the future.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"As a matter of fairness, the committee concluded, we should offer the prime minister, if he wished to take it up, the opportunity for him, for David Miliband his foreign secretary and Douglas Alexander the development secretary to attend hearings before the general election,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

U.S.President Barack Obama has already outlined Washington's new strategy, to deal strategically with Afghanistan and Pakistan together, to focus on both military and civilian development efforts and to step up diplomacy by bringing in neighboring countries as part of the solution.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03