She is expected to ask for more visas for foreign aid workers as the Syrian Arab Red Crescent struggles to distribute food.
Since there is no likelihood any Congress, whether controlled by Republicans or Democrats, will approve that kind of money for foreign aid, the alternative idea of generating such funds instead through new, international taxes has gained traction.
Environmentalists, long vexed by the destruction of Indonesia's primal forests and the damage done to its vast marine life, believe that the new government, desperate for foreign aid, will at last allow them to do something to stop the depredation.
The first five missions include creating common-sense tools for public participation, liberating government data to fuel job growth, giving everyone secure access to their own health information, streamlining the government contracting process for high-growth startups, and getting more bang for our foreign aid buck.
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Those bonds were issued to Social Security in the past in return for the Social Security surpluses over the years given to the federal government for its general spending programs, paying for everything from foreign aid to bridges to nowhere.
The Beach restaurant, a favourite for secular types, including foreign aid workers, was closed for three days after police nabbed a woman smoking a water-pipe.
Uganda, dependent on foreign aid for 55% of its budget, would be especially vulnerable.
The new chief minister, Mari Alkatiri, accepts that East Timor will be dependent on foreign aid for several years.
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The governments of the Mitch-hit countries will present their plans for reconstruction to prospective foreign aid donors, in Stockholm, in May.
Mr Khan has pledged to sweep away the rampant corruption plaguing Pakistani politics, in part by calling for an end to foreign aid.
Mr Mamet praises Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian economist and author, for her criticism of foreign aid, but identifies her as a Gambian. (One country is in southern Africa, the other in the west, but, hey, why should a misplaced consonant spoil the argument of a true conservative?) He rails against American health-care reform but seems to think only 20m people are uninsured (the latest estimates reckon the figure is just over 50m).
R. 3402 waives all congressional prohibitions on the use of foreign aid funds for assistance to Poland.
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And you say, well, foreign aid accounts for 1 percent of our budget.
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In another instance: Americans typically guess that foreign aid accounts for more than 30% of the U.S. federal budget.
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Public opinion in the U.S. is against foreign aid not for the reasons Dr. Zedillo suggests, but rather because of past experience.
Foreign aid accounts for about 1.5 to 2 percent of the budget.
Representative Rohrabacher is pushing for an amendment to the foreign aid bill that would make money to Pakistan contingent on the release of Dr. Afridi.
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That amount would represent over half of America's total foreign-aid budget for all causes.
In fact all foreign aid combined accounts for far less than 1% of the federal budget.
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In 2011, both the UK and US warned they would use foreign aid to push for homosexuality to be decriminalised in Africa.
Ahmedi says he has had to pay under-the-table kickbacks to some foreign aid agencies even for humanitarian construction projects like schools.
In a hearing yesterday before the House Appropriations Subcommittee responsible for foreign assistance, Secretary of State James Baker essentially endorsed an ill-advised proposal made in January by Senator Robert Dole for reallocating U.S. foreign aid.
She went on hunger strike for 12 days over the Sudanese government's decision to expel foreign aid agencies and even offered to "trade her freedom" for the freedom of a rebel leader, who was being treated in a UN hospital but was afraid to leave.
Foreign aid, which accounts for 70% of Nepal's development spending, will also be dented by the coup.
The criticism contributed to a sharp drop in foreign aid, which accounted for 70% of the government budget.
Mr Hun Sen agreed to the Japanese plan only after strong pressure from foreign governments whose aid accounts for the bulk of Cambodia's finances.
It will try to thwart any congressional effort to restrict further engagement with the Morsi regime, for example by cutting off or conditioning foreign aid and military sales.
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