Mubarak and his coterie of generals, the men who are actually still running Egypt, benefited from tens of billions of dollars worth of US military and economic aid over the course of several decades.
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Mr Bush recently waived restrictions on military aid to 21 countries, and curbs on economic aid to a further 14, despite their refusal to sign bilateral immunity deals.
As academic evidence mounts that graft deters investment and economic growth, aid agencies tie their largesse more directly to clean government, and citizens from Argentina to Indonesia demand less venal politicians, no country can afford to ignore its reputation for corruption.
The key to expanded U.S. interest in Africa, Clinton intimated, is the dissemination of more information about the continent throughout the United States, in concert with a series of government-initiated programs to extend economic and social aid to the countries that need it most.
In light of these considerations, the Center believes that President Cristiani requires the use of U.S. economic and military aid to increase civilian authority over the military and to strengthen the majority of the Salvadoran military leadership who reject the violent methods of an extremist faction.
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.
Economic progress depends on sustained bilateral and multilateral aid, on responsible government economic management, and on continued technical assistance from multilateral and bilateral donors.
Easterly pointed out that research had failed to demonstrate any link between aid and economic growth.
This would give Japan a trade boost and aid its economic recovery, he said following an EU summit in Brussels.
Hitherto, western policy has aimed, sensibly enough, at calming the political atmosphere through modest economic aid and quiet security help for Montenegro.
The opposition parties say it could safely afford 2% or so, to help sustain the economic recovery and aid those yet to feel the benefits.
Although still holding out for more economic aid and more assurances that Iraq's Kurds will not be allowed to split away from it, and so intensify Turkey's problem with its own Kurdish minority, the government recently agreed to allow American military technicians to start surveying some of Turkey's military bases and ports for their possible use in a war.
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However, Prof Zhu predicts that China will not let Mr Choe leave empty-handed and is likely to provide economic aid.
European aid donors, who for years have encouraged debt relief, high levels of aid and painful economic reform, are aghast at events.
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He declared that the United States would give up to a billion dollars in debt relief to Egypt and economic, trade and technical aid to the Egyptians and Tunisians.
It outlined a social agenda that called for, among others, insurance coverage and subsidies to aid the poor and unemployed during times of economic flux.
In the 1980s and 1990s, World Bank and International Monetary Fund officials wrote economic policy for African governments and bribed them with aid into signing up to it.
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.
In addition, of course, expanded economic ties between and among these states can aid each of them in the struggle to stay afloat during the current global economic crisis.
Experience demonstrates ad nauseam that stable currencies enormously aid economic development and that currency instability is an insidious enemy of economic progress.
In a time of economic depression in Russia and food aid from abroad, its space station still distinguishes the country positively from other nations, analysts said.
Remittances had been seen as more resilient in an economic downturn than aid and investment flows, perhaps because the senders of cash have personal ties with the recipients.
The UNCTAD says that despite major policy reforms initiated by many of these countries, and supportive measures taken by a number of donors in the areas of aid, debt relief and trade, the economic situation of the LDCs as a whole worsened during the 1980s.
And through the Millennium Challenge Account, my nation is increasing our aid to developing nations that expand economic freedom and invest in the education and health of their own people.
The EU, which emerged from the ashes of a world war that left Europe shattered, humiliated and sidelined, is now the world's biggest economic power, exporter, trading bloc, aid donor and foreign investor.
Turkey has been negotiating with America over a multi-billion-dollar package of aid and loans to cushion the economic impact of war.
And it would indeed be an aid to economic recovery.
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Obama's "open hand" promise in his inaugural address isn't having much success around the world, and North Korea can always use new infusions of economic aid, which may well be the hidden cargo of the Clinton mission.
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The economic aid to Iraq started in 1983, and by the end of the war amounted to more than a billion dollars.
At the same time there is another Palestinian imperative that is both cultural and socio-economic, the absolute necessity to maintain international aid.
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