Foreign Aid

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• NYT > World: Letter from India: Changed Forever by Disaster

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 470
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . The 2004 tsunami -- and the flood of aid money that followed -- has given devastated villages a second chance.
  18 hours ago

• Letter from India: Changed Forever by Disaster

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  The 2004 tsunami -- and the flood of aid money that followed -- has given devastated villages a second chance.
  18 hours ago

• Indian American Shah takes charge of USAID

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Washington, Dec. 25 (ANI): The US Senate has confirmed Rajiv Shah, a food security expert, to head USAID, a key development agency. America’s top international aid and development agency got a Christmas present Thursday when the Senate confirmed Shah, President Obama’s nomination to head the US Agency for ...
  22 hours ago

• Our Money Goes To . . . . ?

  
  New At Politics — Authority: 99
  The U.S. Government just loves to spend, spend, spend. Take a look at H.R. 3081 here , which was signed into law by Obama the Imperial. Notice the massive increases. I just love sending all those billions to foreign countries, dont you? Just like the Constitution says. Not.
  1 day ago

• Losing Cairo?

  
  Foreign Policy — Authority: 727
  Since Barack Obamas speech six months ago, the Muslim world has begun to lose hope in the United States. But its not too late ... yet.
  1 day ago

• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  1 day ago

• That Unusual Holiday Gift

  
  Nicholas D. Kristof — Authority: 558
  So should journalists give specific ideas for good aid groups that readers can donate to? Is that a useful public service for readers, or a manipulative abuse of a column?
  1 day ago

• The End of Influence

  
  Foreign Policy — Authority: 727
  For as long as many can remember, the United States has been the country with money, influence, and power. But all that is changing, write Brad DeLong and Stephen Cohen in their new book, The End of Influence . FP excerpts exclusively here.
  2 days ago

• COP 15 – end notes.

  
  On the BorderLine — Authority: 129
  Keith Lockitch writes: Whats not widely acknowledged is the fact that preindustrial countries have always been vulnerable to drought and hurricanes and heat waves and so onand they always will be so long as they remain preindustrial. What keeps them at risk is not the possibility of large-scale changes to the ...
  2 days ago

• British People Put Last: University Budget Cut as Foreign Aid Increases

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 583
  The insane Labour and Tory plan to always put British people last has been underlined with the slashing of the university budget by £533 million while foreign aid expenditure continues to increase. According to Business Secretary “Lord” Mandelson, the Government is to cut university funding by £533 million next ...
  2 days ago

• Afghanistan: Who Will Head the U.N. Mission?

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 441
  Laura Rozen explores who will replace Kai Eide as the  head of the U.N. mission  in Afghanistan. She reports rumors that Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura is the “top contender” for the position and is an American favorite. At the same time, there are reports that French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner ...
  3 days ago

• Coal for Christmas

  
  Foreign Policy — Authority: 727
  The World Bank is still subsidizing one of the worlds dirtiest fuels.
  3 days ago

• How to Whip the Afghan Army Into Shape

  
  Foreign Policy — Authority: 727
  Much of President Barack Obamas strategy rests on the creation of a new, more competent Afghan military. Heres what hell need to know to get the job done.
  3 days ago

• China: We just gave Cambodia $1.2 billion because were nice

  
  FP Passport — Authority: 667
  China is denying that the $1.2 billion in aid that Vice President Xi Jinping pledged during a visit to Cambodia yesterday had anything to do with the fact that just hours earlier, the country deported 20 Uighur asylum speakers -- a move that Xi praised during the very same visit: A Chinese Foreign Ministry ...
  3 days ago

• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  3 days ago

• The Caucus: Mixed Bag for Obama on Climate Change Deal Amid the Recession

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  President Obama in Copenhagen on Friday. He and Congressional Democrats have seen poll ratings sag.
  4 days ago

• Time Is Running Out

  
  Vancouver Secrets — Authority: 137
  The Favorite phrase of the Obama administration. Now that anyone is buying it anymore. It started with the financial industry rescue – which, at the time, was believable. Unfortunately there’s no end in sight. In 2010 we’ll have as many, if not more, bank failures, foreclosures and business collapses. If you ...
  5 days ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  6 days ago

• AfPak: Corruption and Graft

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 441
  Simon Tisdall argues  corruption  is a larger and more difficult problem than most people realize. He cites Lorenzo Delesgues of Integrity Watch who observes that some USAID programs lose up to 90 cents on the dollar to corruption and fraud. Juan Cole relays several articles from Afghanistan translated by the ...
  1 week ago

• Does Aid Cause Dutch Disease?

  
  Global Development: Views from the Center — Authority: 125
  If the United States gives Uganda a billion dollars, Uganda becomes richer. However, Uganda can only enjoy that money by spending it; and since the money is dollars it must buy goods and services from the United States. So when the United States gives Uganda a billion dollars, exports follow. With enhanced access to ...
  1 week ago

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