Table 2 compares the magnitude of Chinese health aid to Africa relative to other bilateral DAC donors, by comparing the total amount of US$ committed bilaterally (which excludes their donations to multilateral institutions) by the top 10 donors.
"There is a real concern that all the major donors are looking at excluding emerging economies from their aid programs," Emma Seery, the head of development finance at Oxfam, said by telephone.
The UN Development Programme estimates that reconstruction (excluding humanitarian aid) could cost $10 billion a year over three years.
Policy deliberation is an echo chamber, dominated by financial players, excluding legal aid experts, who criticized short-sighted deregulation.
Donors believe that with more help (Ethiopia already gets $1 billion a year, excluding food aid), the country could take off.With aid, however, comes scrutiny.
Mr Karzai said that the customs money would help boost central-government revenues from a pathetic $80m last year (excluding foreign aid) to $600m next year.
At present the commission spends on average 140 million a year on Afghanistan and 66 million on Pakistan, excluding humanitarian aid like that given recently to help address conditions in the Swat Valley.
Iraq came out of the war burdened with $40 billion debts, excluding the aid given by Arab states, some of whom consider that too to be a debt although they knew - and you knew too - that without Iraq they would not have had these sums and the future of the region would have been entirely different.
Last year, the federal foreign assistance budget -- excluding special aid for Iraq -- totaled $17 billion.
Excluding the government aid, Air Canada lost 160 million Canadian dollars ($101 million) before taxes in the third quarter.
Tens of billions of dollars were extended to the sector in Europe last year, excluding aid to banks most exposed to the industry, like Royal Bank of Scotland and Commerzbank.
