Sentence examples for raise aid from inspiring English sources

In 2002 it joined others to sign a declaration urging developed countries to raise aid levels to 0.7 percent of gross national product.

President Clinton recently called on Congress to raise aid for international family planning by $169 million next year, bringing the total to $541 million in the 2001 budget.

American officials say they fear that if they pledge to raise aid to the poorest nations, then they might be forced to reduce aid to other deserving recipients.

At a conference to raise aid for the Palestinians, held in Egypt on Monday, Clinton shook hands and spoke briefly with the Syrian foreign minister, Walid al-Moallem.

At the G8 summit in Gleneagles in 2005, when the rich world made heroic pledges to tackle poverty in Africa, EU members promised to raise aid budgets to 0.56% of GNP by 2010 and 0.7% by 2015.

So it was odd to find that their proposed budget would raise education aid to wealthy districts next year much faster than it would raise aid to poor districts.

Mandela lent his Robben Island prison number – 46664 – to a concert in 2003 to raise Aids awareness, telling South Africans victims of the epidemic should "not be allowed to become a number".

You're committed to raising aid spending to 0.7% of national income, the UN target, and enshrining that in law.

The organization basically is a membership of athletes who are committed to drawing attention to and raising aid for victims of the war-torn region in Sudan.

And despite most countries' increases since then, few have met the UN's target of raising aid to at least 0.7% of GDP.In this section Overview Output, prices and jobs The Economist commodity-price index The Economist poll of forecasters, April averages Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates Markets Aid Reprints.

He taught at the Sorbonne but resigned his professorship to become director of the Society for the Promotion of Education in the Near East (Oeuvre des Écoles d'Orient), through which he raised aid for those Maronites (Lebanese Christians) who had survived the massacre of 1860 led by the Druzes, a Middle Eastern people whose religion is derived from Islam.