Sentence examples for recipients of development from inspiring English sources

Charlie Whittaker, University of East Anglia, UK It is outdated thinking that poorer countries are the sole recipients of development.

Ethiopia is one of the world's largest recipients of development aid, receiving about $3 billion annually, with the United States one of its largest donors.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in Ethiopia, which remains one of the West's foremost recipients of development assistance and whose largest trading partner and main source of foreign investment is China.

In this analytical framework, individual pastoralists, working inside and outside the pastoral sector, have become active agents of change rather than passive recipients of development.

"The way that we do aid and development, it can help a lot if we're smart about it and targeted, but it can also hurt a lot," Proctor said, adding that the focus should be on "making sure our efforts are informed by young people and led by young people, not treating them as recipients of development rather than partners in the process".

Sam Akaki Director, Democratic Institutions for Poverty Reduction in Africa (Dipra) Sierra Leone has been a recipient of development aid for many years.

This sense of the historical responsibility of developed countries could be expanded to cover not just greenhouse gas emissions but also depletion of natural ecosystems and resources, transforming the balance of power between source and recipient of development finance.

Pakistan is about to become the biggest recipient of development assistance from the UK, with half of the £446 million that has been committed for 2014 going to education.

An important part of the debate is not only perceived financial supremacy in Asia -- and in that regard, China already reigns supreme -- but the acknowledgement that China is stepping up to the plate to transition from being primarily a recipient of development aid to becoming a primary donor.

Ethiopia is one of the biggest recipients of UK development aid, receiving around £300m a year.

Ethiopia is still one of the biggest recipients of UK development aid, getting about £300m a year.