Miliband said a deal at next month's crunch UN climate talks in Copenhagen on funding for reducing deforestation – a key theme – was "now closer than it's ever been".
Selling minority stakes, it notes, give the impression "that the main objective of the government is to obtain funds for reducing its fiscal deficit, and not to improve performance or governance".
Although murder is the leading cause of death for Brazilians between the ages of 15 and 29, national funding for reducing homicide and violent crime has plummeted since 2011 and there is no federal programme to support the most-affected states.
Along similar lines, despite a widespread understanding that disasters undermine a significant proportion of international development spending, funding for reducing the risk of disasters is a tiny fraction of total development spending.
And with the current levels of attention on and funding for reducing child deaths, there is no reason why other regions and technical areas cannot adopt a similar approach.
Other important issues will be under negotiation in Bali, including adaptation to climate change, the launch of a fund for adaptation, reducing emissions from deforestation, issues relating to the carbon market, and arrangements for a review of the Kyoto protocol.
Helmand's governor, Gulab Mangal, has received $10 million in development funds as a reward for reducing poppy cultivation.
Republicans in Congress have proposed cutting Medicaid in ways that health-care advocates say would reduce access to drug treatment for many, and the president's budget proposal calls for reducing funding for addiction treatment, research and prevention efforts.
Trump's 2018 budget calls for reducing funding for the opioid epidemic by $97 million compared with 2017 levels, said Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy, vice chairman of the Appropriations Committee.
