Sentence examples for foreign aid commitments from inspiring English sources

Australia has steadily reduced its foreign aid commitments in the last few decades.

The report comes at a time when Europe's foreign aid commitments are under pressure from critics who say the money would be better spent on tackling austerity than on financing allegedly corrupt regimes.

Mr. Perry has said previously that he would eliminate the federal government's current foreign aid commitments across the board, even to Israel, and demand that foreign governments meet specific conditions before receiving money.

Even with the recent increases in foreign aid commitments, the official resources available to most developing-country governments remain grossly inadequate in relation to their MDG poverty-alleviation targets.

While the plans laid out in the Blueprint are both concrete and visionary, this is -- or so they keep reminding us -- a time of 'fiscal cliffs' and an 'age of austerity.' We are told all governments need to cutback spending and get smart with tax dollars, the inference being that spending on global health and other foreign aid commitments is frivolous.

The competition between national priorities and foreign aid commitments raises important ethical questions for donor nations.

"Migration is one of the biggest issues facing our country, and I welcome the chancellor's announcement to increase our foreign aid commitment to address its root causes," she said.

In 2010 11, of all government bodies, MoHP received aid from the highest number of development partners and got the largest amount of new foreign aid commitment, receiving 81 projects from 21 development partners [ 7].

His government is also flush with foreign aid, having received commitments of $4.55 billion after the 2008 war with Russia; the $1 billion pledged by the United States at the time made Georgia one of the largest recipients of American aid, after Israel, Egypt and Iraq.

But they're conscious of the federal deficit and willing to consider a number of strategies to reduce the gap, including raising taxes on high earners, spending less on foreign aid and overseas military commitments, and limiting tax deductions for large corporations.

- Information on financial or material support to candidates, parties, or interest groups from foreign governments, especially from Cuba or Venezuela; post-electoral aid commitments from foreign governments.