Foreign aid &#39;quick and generous&#39;
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The international response to a catastrophic tsunami in Asia has been quick and generous, a senior UN official said yesterday, playing down his earlier comments that wealthy nations were stingy.
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Access to anti-Aids drugs is spreading in many poor countries, but not as fast as had been hoped, the WHO says.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell calls it the most promising development in foreign assistance in decades. That is quite a claim for a program that has yet to disburse its first dollar. But it is clear that President Bush's Millennium Challenge Account, first proposed 2 1/2 years ago, represents a fresh approach to helping countries overcome economic backwardness.
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Kofi Annan gently prodded world leaders to follow through on their aid pledges, which now total more than $3 billion.
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Tony Blair is being urged to use all his negotiating powers to end poor countries&#39; debt and double aid. Some 45m children will die needlessly before 2015 and aid budgets are half their 1960 levels, charity Oxfam says in a new report, Paying the Price.
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Skeptical of foreign aid's promise, many are creating their own jobs through clever, small-scale entrepreneurial activities.
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International efforts to aid desperate  victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster are picking up  pace, said U.N. officials, who dismissed as unfair suggestions  that the response had been slow.
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The country's two political rivals agreed to help ease distribution of humanitarian aid, but not to a power-sharing government.
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Developing countries are starting to flex their financial muscles and invest overseas.
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Tsunami relief and Iraqi elections help an embattled Kofi Annan and the US find common cause.
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Forty-five rich and middle-income nations agreed yesterday to provide a record $25.1 billion to the World Bank for generous-term loans and grants to the world's poorest countries. But for the first time since Dwight D. Eisenhower pushed for the creation of the bank's arm for helping the poorest of...
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In just three weeks, the German public has donated a record 400 million euros (522 million dollars) in aid for victims of the Asian tsunamis, making Germany the most generous country worldwide in helping the ...
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31 August 2004 - Developing countries have made tremendous strides in improving reproductive health and tackling women&#39;s rights issues, but rich nations have only paid a little more than half of the $6.
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The United Nations said that it had secured concrete aid of 717 million dollars toward its emergency relief appeal for the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, and urged donor countries to speed up delivery of further aid promises.
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Cheap Chinese products, which are flooding Asia, are met with deep appreciation by the regionâs poorest people.
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With only $1 billion US in hand out of $13.6 billion pledged, Iraq&#39;s deputy prime minister Wednesday called on countries to fulfil their promises of aid at the start of a 55-country conference aimed at increasing donations for the
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Seems that folks at the Agency for International Development are not rushing to fill 23 excellent jobs in garden spots such as Iraq and Afghanistan. And if no one volunteers soon, AID Administrator    Andrew S. Natsios  said in an agency-wide e-mail Friday, the agency will order people to fill those posts.