Sentence examples for in official development aid from inspiring English sources

On the one hand, we have increasing needs in the developing world and, on the other hand, a decrease in official development aid as OECD countries are affected by the financial crisis.

Yet recent years have been marked by the crushing effects of debt on the world's most impoverished countries --and by a steady and unprecedented decline in official development aid.

The US, which spent $30.4bn in official development assistance in 2010, is known for its policy of "tied aid" – foreign aid that must be spent on goods and services purchased from companies in donor countries.

In fact, though, Bush's aid hasn't been as extravagant as his talk, but it's still impressive: $19 billion in "official development assistance" actually delivered in 2004, up from the Clinton low of less than $7 billion in 1997 (those are OECD numbers, and the U.S. figure is a bit higher in '97 because it included military aid that the OECD doesn't count).

In 2006, transfers of official development aid to NGOs totaled more than $2 billion (US) according to OECD statistic and services such as education and health care, historically managed and implemented by the public sector, are increasingly provided by NGOs [ 2, 3].

The donation came as the Dutch Government moves toward increasing its assistance for education to 15 per cent of its official development aid in 2007.

In fact, remittances have stably dwarfed official development aid by a factor of three over two decades.

In 2011, according to the OECD, official development aid to Liberia totaled £498 million, and made up 73% of its gross national income.

A companion Countdown paper, Reproductive health priorities: Evidence from disbursements of official development aid, published in the May 19 issue of The Lancet medical journal, tracked the amount of official development assistance (ODA) for reproductive health over two years -- the first time such a global analysis of ODA for reproductive health has been undertaken.

"We are privatising official development aid," he said, in a phrase that will terrify some.

The UK has for years counted millions of pounds in pension payments to former British colonial officers as official development aid – and the Ministry of Defence, facing significant cuts, wants to take money from the ringfenced aid budget.