Shriranga's difficulties stemmed partly from the lack of aid from his brothers, who ruled their separate regions, and partly from the dissensions of his nobles and the semi-independent status of some of them.
In the years that followed, the Vietnamese Government was left isolated from the world and its efforts to rebuild the country were handicapped by the lack of aid from the capitalist Western nations.
Dr. Douste-Blazy recognizes that while developed countries pay for their economic woes in higher unemployment and reduced consumer spending, underdeveloped and developing countries pay for their economic woes and indeed for the lack of aid from economically constrained developed countries with a massive amount of preventable deaths.
His efforts were thwarted, however, by insufficient time and by lack of sustained aid from France.
General Idris said there were five million civilian refugees in Syria, and he condemned the lack of humanitarian aid from the West.
Nevertheless, it remains a worrisome contradiction and it demonstrates two problems: the inability of the Board of Education to establish budgetary priorities, and the unfair lack of school aid from the state.
Council members said the lack of tangible aid from the West, particularly after a string of visitors had promised to help, was fueling suspicions that Syrians were being deliberately starved.
Never mind the lack of a track record for survival of their fragile agricultural product in a new place, or the lack of prospective aid from any winemaking neighbor.
Mobile phones can record where and when you exchanged information with a contact, which is an aid to memory sorely lacking from most records of a meatspace introduction.
But the politics, perverse logic and lack of coordinated thinking on aid from the west means well-meaning international agencies sometimes prefer to feed countries like Haiti rather than give them the means to feed themselves.
"He gets a multiplier effect from his investments that's really lacking in foreign aid," Collier said.
