"If you get a tweet saying you just got five hundred thousand dollars pledged against you, that sends a message," Jaff said.
Notwithstanding billions of dollars pledged in foreign aid, lofty promises from donors and the presence of over 10,000 NGOs, the country remains the poorest in the Americas.
Of the billions of dollars pledged in the wake of disasters, far too little goes toward safeguarding women's lives and bodies.
Rebuilding has begun & with the help of a million dollars pledged by the federal govt the Mayor hopes the houses will be rebuilt by Christmas.
This month, the Administration announced that it would withhold sixty-five milliof dollars of the hundred and twenty-five million dollars pledged to the United Nations for Palestinian refugees.
The result is abandonment of the "public" in the name of "service," which David Giovannoni and other consultants define in terms of the dollars pledged per program.
On the large scale, there is all the continued financial military support pledged at the NATO Chicago summit in May and the billions of dollars pledged for civilian needs at the Tokyo summit in July.
If Mr. Christie pulls out, billions of dollars pledged by the federal government and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will go elsewhere, thousands of new construction jobs will be lost and the region's economic future could be hobbled.
There are also reserves of skepticism among the leaders of the thousands of nongovernmental organizations that form the backbone of social aid, as well as among diplomats of some countries contributing to the several billion dollars pledged, but far from fully delivered, to rebuild the country.
Neither Clark nor her Labour Party are in charge anymore, but the millions of New Zealand dollars pledged have been spent on improving stadiums and infrastructure to make sure the event and New Zealand are shown in the best possible light to the world.
