While China would benefit from aid and partnerships, so would the rest of the world.
She pointed to a number of programs in Honduras that have benefitted from aid, and that have had an undeniable impact at a local level, offering relief to communities beleaguered by gang violence and police corruption.
They found that countries with sound economic policies (low inflation, a budget surplus and fairly free trade) and good institutions (rule of law, not much corruption, an effective bureaucracy) benefited from aid.
One of the main issues for the territory is that it is a self-declared republic and has never been internationally accepted - meaning it does not benefit from aid or foreign assistance.
There are countless other examples in which countries have benefited from aid and then graduated, including Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Israel, and others.
Millions of very poor people benefitted from aid, commerce, bigger harvests and improved nutrition - leaving the hunger lists by the millions.
The upshot is that we find ourselves in a situation that Kafka might have imagined, one in which the European Union cites rules that it designed to explain why Bosnia can neither enter the Union nor benefit from aid mechanisms designed for members and candidates, while Croatia (a member since July 2013) and Serbia (whose application is pending) benefit from the aid.
Although a few camps have benefited from aid programs, a grave underlying housing shortage means that the majority of those who left the camps have disappeared into the overcrowded homes of relatives or constructed precarious shacks in hillside slums.
This will allow better tracking of what aid is used for and what it achieves by taxpayers and those who benefit from aid. IATI provides a common, open and international standard, agreed in 2011, for publishing more and better information about aid.
In 2009, as part of the Government of Canada's new aid effectiveness agenda, Ethiopia was selected as one of the 20 countries of focus - based on the real needs, the capacity to benefit from aid, and the alignment with Canadian foreign policy priorities.
It is apparent that Ms. Kehoe has benefited from aids to recovery and is managing her illness successfully.
