And its notion of "aid" has been broadened, as senior departments such as foreign affairs and defence have made demands on the aid budget to pay, for instance, for clearing landmines or supporting ex-communist countries "in transition".Nor has CIDA managed to concentrate its aid effectively on a few countries.
Nick Dearden, the director of campaign group Global Justice Now, said: "From a luxury housing and shopping complex in Kenya, to gated communities in El Salvador, the CDC has an appalling record of funding developments in the global south that make a mockery of any notion of aid money going to help vulnerable communities that lack access to basic resources.
In a report to mark World Aids Day on Tuesday, the group says that "the notion of Aids as an urgent, pressing issue of global concern has faded from the news headlines and the hallways of governments", risking the hard-won progress made over the past three decades.
Of the notion of military aid to Colombia, the White House declared on Wednesday: "We do believe that Colombia and Ecuador should be able to work this out between themselves.
In the new book she questions the notion of impartial aid during and after conflict enshrined in the International Red Cross from its inception.
Michael G. Grimm, a first-term Republican representing Staten Island, where many homes were flooded by the storm, strongly disagreed with the notion of delaying aid to find cuts elsewhere in the budget.
Now, at last, a valid alternative has arisen: the radical notion of letting aid recipients decide how to spend the money allocated to them.
Recognizing this new reality, in 2013, national civil legal aid advocates and leaders formed Voices for Civil Justice, an organization dedicated to increasing the visibility of civil legal aid in the national media, increasing the capacity for media advocacy in civil legal aid organizations, and strengthening the notion of civil legal aid as an indispensable societal resource.
It would appear that the notion of poor nations' "aid dependence" stems from corporations' tax independence.
It is also one that is rapidly expanding the notion of who deserves aid to include recipients well beyond the families of those killed or injured.
MICHELE BACHMANN Responding to Mr. Perry's thoughtless notion of cutting off aid to Pakistan, Mrs. Bachmann said the United States needs to be engaged to remain influential there, maintain intelligence ties and help secure Pakistan's nuclear weapons.
