Sentence examples for overseas development aid from inspiring English sources

Firstly, a massive spend would be needed; and secondly, given that most highly biodiverse areas are in the relatively poor countries of the tropics, that spend would mean another transfer of money from the industrialised to the developing world - at its upper end, a vast one, dwarfing both existing overseas development aid and the projected $100bn per year for climate change.

Deficit reduction is a real ambition and unlike health or overseas development aid, the education budget was not ring-fenced.

Oxfam is unhappy that much of this money may be double counted from overseas development aid budgets.

Separately, Britain and other rich countries have pledged to raise overseas development aid (ODA) to 0.7% of GDP.

Norway is devoting about 35percentt of its overseas development aid to maternal, newborn and child health.

Last year $103.7bn was given in overseas development aid from the top 22 donor countries, a figure dwarfed by the US bailout.

The African diaspora send more money home to their families than overseas development assistance from western aid donors.

There is also a real danger that "climate" money will be diverted from existing overseas development assistance, or other aid flows, and could be double-counted.

The proportion of the overseas development assistance budget devoted to "aid for trade" would increase from 12.5% now to 20% by 2020, according to government documents explaining the new aid policies.

Since 1996 they have been worth more than all overseas-development aid, and for most of the past decade more than private debt and portfolio equity inflows.

Ministers said this had been done before and counted as overseas development assistance, the OECD's measure of aid spending.