Foreign Aid

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Name: Foreign Aid

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

THE MOBILITY REVOLUTION

Nowadays, remittances are more than five times larger than the world’s total foreign aid and larger than the annual total flow of foreign investment to poor countries. In short, workers who live outside their home country – and who are often very poor ... [Published Amandala Online - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Change to Win Coalition, Immigration, Foreign Aid, Hispanics, Service Employees International Union

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Liberal Democrats

£11.5bn in cuts? No, we can only manage £2.5bn, cabinet ministers tell the Chancellor

Chancellor must find an extra £11.5billion in cuts for 2015-16Unprotected departments told to find up to 10% reductionsBut some angry ministers are defying Treasury to resist big cuts By George Osborne is facing a Cabinet backlash over spending cuts, ... [Published Mail Online UK - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Liberal Democrats, Chris Grayling, David Cameron, Theresa May

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

May 18 Letters: Comp time, online taxes, federal spending, energy conservation

No online taxesI hope the Senate and House can hammer out a deal to not slap on [online] sales taxes.For 2012-13 alone, between a 30 percent-plus increase in my health care premium starting July 1, 10 percent water use rate increase, 17 percent sewer ... [Published Hampton Roads Daily Press - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Taxes, Foreign Aid, Medicare, Social Security

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

Planning commission released Rs 170.7 under PSDP

ISLAMABAD: The Planning Commission of Pakistan has released Rs 170.7 billion under its Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) against the total allocations of Rs 233 billion for the current fiscal year.According to the latest data of the Planning ... [Published Online News Pakistan - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Foreign Aid, Allotment, Pakistan, Infrastructure

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

Barack Obama

Obama foreign aid panel: Waiting

After two-and-a-half years on the runway, President Barack Obama's Global Development Council was finally poised for take-off this week—but, no.The council was slated to meet Friday at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex. ... [Published Politico - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Barack Obama, Foreign Aid, White House

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

Republican Party (US)

Dems outraged as GOP details deep 2014 spending cuts

Democrats on Friday expressed outrage as they learned the details of planned spending cuts for 2014 formulated by Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee.The committee has circulated an outline for federal spending based on the House-passed ... [Published The Hill - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Republican Party (US), Sequester, Foreign Aid, US Department of Homeland Security

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

Anger as green projects slashed, funds diverted to help cattle exports

Australia has all but dumped $75 million worth of projects regrowing forests in the developing world and shelved a $100 million forest carbon partnership with Indonesia.Simultaneously, millions of dollars in foreign aid will be channelled into the live ... [Published Canberra Times - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Cattle, Foreign Aid, Australia

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

New Zealand called on to allocate more to foreign aid.

The New Zealand Aid and Development Dialogues group says the New Zealand government needs to allocate more funding to foreign aid.The group says the government can be commended for a slightly higher aid spend in this year’s Budget, up just over 7 million ... [Published Radio New Zealand International - May 17 2013]

Entities: New Zealand, Foreign Aid, Australia, Gross National Income

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Aid should be given to us first

IT SEEMS like the Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservatives have been put on the back-foot after the success of Ukip.In the last few months there has been a dramatic surge for Ukip and its leader Nigel Farage. Now, all of a sudden, the Conservatives ... [Published Stoke-on-Trent Sentinel - May 16 2013]

Entities: David Cameron, UKIP UK Independence Party, The Conservative Party (United Kingdom), Foreign Aid

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Budget games as foreign aid scrimped, misused and diverted

The budget cuts aid spending — and worse. Gareth Bryant from AID/WATCH reports money is being directed to sending refugees home, managing live exports and even promoting mining.The federal budget shows the foreign aid program is increasingly being used ... [Published Crikey Media - May 16 2013]

Entities: Foreign Aid, AusAID, Slush Fund

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

What Abbott should say, Chinese paper trail, foreign aid examined, ASIC’s internet crackdown, Fairfax freelancers robbed

Read more on the blog... ... [Published Crikey Media - May 16 2013]

Entities: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit, Foreign Aid

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

May 16 Letters: Foreign aid, latest scandals, pet cemetery, comp time

According to the recently released Congressional Research Service report to Congress (April 11, 2013), the United states has given $118 billion (not adjusted for inflation) to Israel since WWII.In addition, we give $843 million annually to Jordan to "induce" ... [Published Hampton Roads Daily Press - May 16 2013]

Entities: Foreign Aid, Israel, Jim Clark, Congressional Research Service

Quotes

...government abandon "this carbon dioxide global warming hoax", or even the impertinent way he referred to the shadow treasurer's personal wealth ( "He's a man of means this bloke. He's a rich treasurer to be." Hockey laughed nervously.)

Joe goes into bat and is hit with a Jones bouncer [Published North Queensland Register - 7 hours ago]

The Prime Minister's official spokesman said: "We are still a number of weeks away from the outcome. On June 26 the Government will set out budgets for departments."

£11.5bn in cuts? No, we can only manage £2.5bn, cabinet ministers tell the Chancellor [Published Mail Online UK - 13 hours ago]

The September 2010 White House announcement was vague on what the council's role would be, saying simply that it would be "comprised of leading members of the philanthropic sector, private sector, academia, and civil society, to provide high-level input relevant to the work of United States GovernmentGovernment agencies."

Obama foreign aid panel: Waiting [Published Politico - 19 hours ago]

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Blogs

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Measuring Absorptive Capacity (MAC) [Published CSIS: Publication Feed - May 17 2013] This policy brief describes a new framework for measuring absorptive capacity in international development, peacebuilding, and stabilization efforts. Absorptive capacity is the form and amount of foreign aid and attention that recipient communities, ...
Labor cuts everything except funds for its prop... [Published Andrew Bolt - May 16 2013] Utterly shameless. Despite being so broke that it’s slashed the baby bonus and foreign aid, Labor still pinches taxpayers’ money for its propaganda: … ...
Congressman Wants To Stop Feeding Refugees To K... [Published Think Progress - May 15 2013] (Photo: Rep. Larry Buschon, Credit: Indiana Public Media) An Indiana congressman suggested cutting the United States’ foreign aid budget — choking off supplies to refugees around the world — to keep an Air Force stunt pilot group in the air. Earlier ...
Government and development partners' priority d... [Published Zunia.org RSS - May 15 2013] Actual foreign aid disbursement dropped marginally to $1.04 billion in the last fiscal year, from $1.07 billion a fiscal year back, according to a report. However, the total commitment including technical assistance from development partners had crossed ...
Glass Houses INGOs and Walking the Talk on IATI [Published Zunia.org RSS - May 15 2013] Over 40 governments, along with UN organizations and the World Bank, have committed to a common standard and time schedule for publishing aid information under the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). Secretary of State Clinton signed on ...

Audio/Video

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04.25.13 Sherman Questions USAID Administrator ... [Published Rep. Brad Sherman - YouTube Channel - Apr 25 2013]
South2North - Foreign aid: A blessing or a curse? [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Mar 30 2013]
Defence and Aid [Published CBS News Online - YouTube - Mar 29 2013]
Vitter Discusses Foreign Aid in Virtual Town Hall [Published Senator David Vitter - YouTube Channel - Mar 27 2013]
Former Rep. Ron Paul on Foreign Aid [Published FOX Business - Video - Mar 15 2013]

Press Releases

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World Vision seeks to fill the gap as foreign a... [Published PR Newswire - Apr 18 2013]
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Copts Disappointed With US Foreign Aid to Morsi [Published PR Newswire: Policy & Public Interest - Mar 07 2013]
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