The Palestinians are one of the highest aid-dependent populations in the world, according to a new World Bank report.
The Bahamas have the highest Aids rate in the world, at one in every 112 people.
I asked how, in a city of more than half a million, with one of the country's highest aids-case rates, there could be so few people on antiretroviral drugs.
Haïti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the highest aid-recipient countries in the world.
(See my recent paper with Annalisa Prizzon if you are interested in our new way of classifying countries as very low aid, low aid, middle aid and high aid, according to their aid/GNI ratio).
On Wednesday, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the I.M.F.'s forceful managing director, pledged the higher aid amount, equivalent to $160 billion, in a further bid to reassure investors.
It also appears to be the case that the high aid is not necessarily going to low-income students — but is instead being redirected toward wealthier students.
Ms. McGuire says the higher aid figure recognizes that more people need help, that B.U. raised tuition by $1,370 (almost 4percentt), and that it will very likely need to offer more aid to get enough students to attend.
Campaigners for higher aid spending now fear that the Monterrey meeting will be merely the latest in a long line of United Nations events that promised much and delivered little.
In 2012 the whole continent received $51 billion in foreign handouts.Low taxes and high aid flows, Ms Martin thinks, are a recipe for disengaged citizens and therefore for less effective governments.
KAMPALA, Uganda — The number of rape victims from a four-day rebel attack in eastern Congo a month ago has risen to more than 240 and will likely go higher, aid officials said Thursday.
