The phrase "aid devoted" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing assistance or support that is specifically dedicated to a cause or purpose, but it is not commonly used.
Example: "The organization has established a fund for aid devoted to environmental conservation efforts."
Alternatives: "assistance dedicated" or "support focused".
From 2001 to 2010 the aid devoted to health care grew by more than 10% a year, compared with 7% a year in the 1990s.
Federal aid devoted to lowering tax rates would have much the same effect; businesses and wage earners are attracted by more favorable condition.
The impact of HIV was factored out, because the huge amount of foreign aid devoted to the virus would have skewed the findings.
One good result was that agriculture was restored to its rightful, central place on the development agenda after decades of being the poor stepchild (the proportion of U.S. foreign aid devoted to agriculture dropped from 17 percent in 1980 to about 3 percent in 2006).
Despite the response - and a hefty amount of foreign aid devoted to combatting cocaine production - Peruvian coke is being consumed in the nightclubs of Lima and in cities around the world like never before.
We discovered that despite the government's response and a hefty amount of foreign aid devoted to combatting cocaine production Peruvian coke is being consumed around the world like never before, and the Andean nation runs the risk of becoming the world's next great narco-state.
Our overseas aid is devoted to improving life chances for education, for health.
In 2014, $35.5bn of bilateral aid was devoted to gender equality programmes and related efforts, said the study.
Moreover, only about half of America's foreign aid is devoted to programs aimed at alleviating poverty and promoting development.
Instead, much of the so-called recovery aid was devoted to costly current programs, like highway building and H.I.V. prevention, and to new projects far outside the disaster zone, like an industrial park in the north and a teaching hospital in the central plateau.
Most medical innovation is left to the private sector, which is profit-driven, they write, while aid organisations devoted to public health devote little of their budgets to research and development.
