Sentence examples for low aid from inspiring English sources

(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).

First, although it is fairly well-known that aid is a tiny fraction of the world's financial resources – around 0.2% of global GDP since 1990 – there is less recognition of just how low aid has been (relative to the size of the economy) in the countries where most of the poor live.

Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan receive disproportionally low amount of aid compared to their overall burden of disease (27, 47), falling into the Very Low Aid Countries category despite their increasing poverty and evident needs for better performance (48).

The price was generally seen as low, aided by a slump in Tele Centro Oeste's stock since it revealed last year that it had been lending money to Splice.

But Latin America is a low-aid continent: almost all its countries are very low-aid countries (that is, they receive less – usually far less – than 1% of their gross national income in aid).

This statistic is what prompted me to call my paper: What if three-quarters of the world's poor live (and have always lived) in low-aid countries?

Without urgent reassessment, the Paris agenda is in danger of doing serious harm in Latin America and other low-aid countries.

The vast majority of poor people do live in low- or very-low-aid countries (where aid is respectively under 2% and 1% of gross national income (GNI)) – 77% in 2009.

Whether you think poverty will in the future be more focused on middle-income countries (MICs), as Andy Sumner and others believe, or fragile states, as Andrew Rogerson and Homi Kharas say, there is no doubt that MICs and low-aid countries will continue to benefit from financial co-operation for many decades.

This is even more the case in countries where Spain has historic programmes (it is shutting down recently established programmes in many countries, only a couple of years after they were set up). Spain has usually given a large majority of its aid to low-aid countries, and has established something of a niche in this area.

"Deficits provide states with a golden opportunity to examine their budgets and reduce wasteful and ineffective spending, which will help them keep taxes low and aid the economic recovery".