Even the CIA has acknowledged Aids could breed a new generation of terrorists.
In a 2013 essay entitled 'The Future of Aid', Wickstead starts off by acknowledging aid's past failings but concludes by reaffirming its importance: "The word 'aid' should carry with it a number of health warnings.
A marine staged his own disappearance because he feared harm at the hands of members of his own unit, some of whom face murder charges in the death of a civilian in Iraq, a friend who acknowledges aiding in the ruse told a newspaper.
But as Cameron's own No 10 aides have acknowledged, UK aid money can only be legitimately used for security, demobilisation and peacekeeping.
Osborne used his spending review to change how the aid budget is spent, as the government acknowledged that "aid spending has sometimes been controversial at home, because people want to know that it is squarely in the UK's national interest".
There's an ugly secret of global poverty, one rarely acknowledged by aid groups or U.N. reports.
Kaplan, a research associate with the University of Oxford humanitarian innovation project, acknowledged that aid workers still fear they could be associated with military agendas.
President Alan García acknowledged that aid had been slow to arrive so far, but predicted that "a situation approaching normality" would be restored within 10 days, which might seem an eternity for those here without food and shelter.
Still, proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services acknowledged Rite Aid "faces significant risks as a standalone company" though it also recommended shareholders vote against the deal.
He acknowledges that aid can help with vaccination programs and emergency relief and in some kinds of development but adds that "aid from the outside cannot transform whole societies".
Only in recent years have those same international institutions come to acknowledge that aid and other forms of assistance are inseparable from "governance issues" -- meaning that there is no point in trying to help people who are, literally, helping themselves to the state's riches.
