That is big, but compared with the sums sloshing around in national foreign-aid budgets, it is not humungous.
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That amount would represent over half of America's total foreign-aid budget for all causes.
In April this year the Chinese government issued its first white paper on its foreign-aid programme.
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Intervention in Somalia, the original Gulf war, foreign-aid programmes and the Bosnian peace-keeping mission are much harder to justify.
Foreign-aid agencies will ensure that funds earmarked for a particular hospital or school are used for their intended purpose.
Foreign-aid donors have already cut off support for Zimbabwe and are complaining that Rwanda and Uganda are spending too much.
The numbers for a hospital simply cannot be compared meaningfully with those of an art museum, or a foreign-aid charity.
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The danger, however, is that the Bank's shareholders would use this as an excuse to cut their own foreign-aid budgets still more.
Tony Blair, the British prime minister, caused ructions when he suggested that foreign-aid policy might be tied to a country's willingness to take back its wandering citizens.
During the Eisenhower administration he ran America's foreign-aid programme.
He has improved relations with the United States, vocally backed Israel's right-wing government, sent more Canadian troops to Afghanistan, asserted Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic, and barred foreign-aid money from going to groups that perform abortions.
This speaks to the most basic argument against foreign aid - that it undermines local, indigenous organisations and governments.
Foreign aid-giving governments already tend to look the other way when Uganda's democracy falters, its environment is fouled up, or aid money is stolen.
With 17, 000 or so local and foreign aid-workers in Darfur trying to help the victims, the relief operation is still the largest of its kind in the world.
Forced to flee Abyei, they now live in a sprawl of hastily erected huts about 40km south, at Agok, where they survive largely on help from foreign aid-workers.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the US State Department is looking at a variety of new cybersecurity options, including the appointment of an ambassador-level official with responsibility for cybersecurity, and the linking of foreign aid to anti-cybercrime law enforcement efforts.
The collapsed, failed states that harbour terrorism are exactly the places where large-scale foreign aid does not work.
Ramallah, their administrative capital, is bristling with new buildings, electronic and liquor shops and various spin-offs of foreign aid.
If practices like these are permitted to govern American foreign-assistance programs, this aid could once again serve as a valuable instrument for advancing U.S. interests around the world.
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Ending undisciplined, wasteful foreign aid is pre-eminent among those beliefs.
Take U.S. foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa in 2002, counting only projects that could build a future for the poor (infrastructure and education, for example), and you get all of 6 cents per capita.
Myanmar's then-military government was widely criticized over its handling of the disaster, and accused of initially limiting foreign aid to even the worst-hit areas.
Similarly, the threat of losing foreign aid or preferential market-access may concentrate minds in the Caribbean.
No other aid agency-foreign or domestic-can match its purposeful mandate, its operational flexibility and its potential muscle.
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In a well-off summer community, a property-owner's views on affirmative action or foreign aid have nothing to do with where he stands on such issues as three-acre zoning or who should be eligible for beach-parking permits.
Ahmedi says he has had to pay under-the-table kickbacks to some foreign aid agencies even for humanitarian construction projects like schools.
The outcome will depend on how well Albanians manage to work with the foreign archaeologists, aid agencies and do-gooders who have become involved.
He met Herman Van Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso at the White House in a discussion that covered US-EU trade ties, foreign aid and cybersecurity.
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