foreign assistance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofforeignandassistance
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foreign
adjective
uk/ˈfɒr.ən/us/ˈfɔːr.ən/
belonging or connected to a country that is not ...
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assistance
noun[U]
uk/əˈsɪs.təns/us/əˈsɪs.təns/
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(Definition offoreignandassistancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Industrialised countries, not dependent onforeignassistance, do not have to adopt policy conditions attached to loans.
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Even the receivedforeignassistanceconsisted of a large amount of foreign grants and concessionary loans from the socialist bloc.
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Figure 2 showsforeignassistancein terms of grants and loans as a share of total government spending between 1992 and 2002.
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It cut itsforeignassistanceby 60%, from $38.8 million in 1993 to $15.7 million in 1995.
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Second, while we must be cautious about attributing causation,foreignassistanceappears to have a positive association with these welcome political trends.
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This 'beneficiar y' profile and mentality was altered neither by plans nor random measures offoreignassistance.
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A relatively small part offoreignassistancecomes in the form of guarantees-mainly to support exports of environmental technology or services from donor countries.
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Ironically, trends inforeignassistancefor agricultural and rural development have been declining in many other donor countries and institutions.
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The price for long-termforeignassistancehad been established by a government inquiry.
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He desperately neededforeignassistance, but the prospects did not appear promising.
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Rather than the metaphor of addiction, a closer analogy may be ' maintenance therapy ' - the long-term use offoreignassistanceto forestall or postpone re-emergent authoritarian rule.
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The state budget contributed 5 per cent (direct grants only) andforeignassistanceaccounted for the remaining 5 per cent of expenditures (in grants and loans).
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Some, although fewer than in the early 1990s, appear to function largely as mechanisms through which to receiveforeignassistanceor as employment opportunities for educated, urban intellectuals.
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Yet the fluctuations in the domestic economy and political unrest still sapped deter mination and diverted the attention of the political leadership from many facets of theforeignassistancepolicy.
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Democracy's built-in checks and balances can lead to greater public accountability, responsiveness and transparency - which can enhance the business and investment climate, and perhaps eventually makeforeignassistanceless important.
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But it is ironic that, despite the government's emphasis on containing revolutionary actions on the international front, the revolution had been achieved with almost noforeignassistance.
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Many of the countries in this region are experiencing a process of transition, both politically and economically, which is difficult to complete withoutforeignassistance.
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But even if these difficulties were removed,foreignassistancewould still be necessary.
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This includes public and private health expenditure, plus for some countries, external sources (mainlyforeignassistance).
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Do we require anyforeignassistanceat all?
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