donor country

collocation in English

meaningsofdonorandcountry

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donor
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdəʊ.nər/us
/ˈdoʊ.nɚ/
a person who gives some of their blood or a part of their body to help someone who ...
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country
noun
uk
/ˈkʌn.tri/us
/ˈkʌn.tri/
an area of land that has its own government, ...
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(Definition ofdonorandcountryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdonor country

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In the public sector, a common route is through "tied aid," where purchase of equipment is conditional on sourcing from thedonorcountry.
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Consider finally the effects of a debt-for-nature swap, implemented by adonorcountryand coordinated with lending by commercial creditors.
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One model involves the funding of research programmes managed from thedonorcountry, but targeted at developing country agriculture.
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Furthermore, we show that it is possible for thedonorcountryto benefit, along with the recipient country, from giving aid when enforcement of private contracts is imperfect.
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When imported technology is tied to sourcing from thedonorcountry, problems may arise with maintenance and availability of spare parts (4), especially if there is no local distributor.
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What really matters in this situation is not how the effort of onedonorcountrycompares with that of other donor countries.
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I cannot think at the moment of any otherdonorcountrywhich divorces technical aid from capital aid in this way.
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The inclusion of a country in this list does not of course entitle it to receive official development assistance from any particulardonorcountry.
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That depends upon the balances in the economy of thedonorcountry.
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It is something which can be shared equally, or at least equitably, between thedonorcountryand the recipient country.
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We got rid of that, because otherwise everything has to be sourced back to thedonorcountry, which creates costs and inefficiencies.
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It was not for thedonorcountryto make suggestions, though of course we should be prepared to consider any, subject to other existing priorities.
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Rather than acting as a 13thdonorcountry, it should play a more strategic role.
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Bilateral aid is usually tied to procurement in thedonorcountryand it is thus domestically more popular.
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Everydonorcountryagrees that we must be sure that the proposals do not cut across the current international machinery for dealing with debt.
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The size of the contribution must be subject to the capacity, the capability, of thedonorcountry.
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There is the complex problem that everydonorcountryhas a different set of regulations, and we should try to obviate this.
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Aid is given, with the specification that it must be spent on personnel or firms in thedonorcountry.
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