The measures are being proposed this week by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, officials said, as he is forced to face a deeper round of cuts in service because it seems increasingly clear that the city will not receive all the state and federal aid it counted on to close its $4.7 billion budget gap.
Clinton said the problem had been that the US had never created an effective political constituency behind development, but added that, partly as a result of pressure from christian conservatives for action on Aids "it was coming".
It's been aided on its way there by the Brazil coach Luis Felipe Scolari who has tried to put the death of his nephew to the back of his mind in the build-up to today's opening ceremony.
Meanwhile, the US should attach some strings to the aid it lavishes on Pakistan.
While a donor might provide figures on how much aid it is spending on development projects around the world, it is much harder to determine how much of that money actually enters the economies of the developing countries concerned.
Because Barclays shunned government aid, it has relied on private investors to bolster its balance sheet.
The difference is due to the state's re-estimating how much federal aid it will have on hand in the new fiscal year, which began on April 1.
It faces the task of emerging from bankruptcy protection without aid it was counting on.
Afghanistan is one of the poorest nations on earth, and almost entirely dependent on aid; it is expected to pay just 20percentt of its own budget this year.
But Spain is threatening that, if it does not get some guarantees on regional aid, it will block internal EU agreement not only on that but on other sensitive topics, such as the free movement of labour.
