Word: aid
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...housing prices will hit a low enough level that consumers will make purchasing decisions on their own. If a home that was worth $500,000 three years ago can be purchased for $200,000 at the end of this year, it may bring buyers into the market without any aid whatsoever. If nuclear physicists can be hired at the minimum wage, they will probably all find employment. If the year drags on and the economy does not show signs of substantial improvement, the hope that the government will solve the problem will fade...
With the criticisms recently launched against foreign aid programs, do you think Africa is better off without them? Cherae Robinson, ATLANTA...
...Africa can still use structured, focused aid. The problem is that aid should be properly used. It must support the government's own development agenda. And the country itself should use its own resources well. I think in a few places in Africa, this is happening...
...assisting impoverished nations, but warned that “progress is being threatened” by a lack of communication in Congress. Robert Paarlberg, a political science professor at Wellesley and an associate at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, drew a distinction between the emergency aid that the United States effectively distributes on a periodic basis versus the sustained assistance that Africa needs. “Even when international food crises are low, we can’t lose sight of the underlying problem of persistent hunger,” he said. When asked about ways...
Democracy will survive in Mexico, too, even if the PRI moves back into power in three years. But the Obama Administration should do as much as it can to help keep that from happening - starting with epidemiological aid to Calderon's government. From trade to immigration to the drug war, the U.S. has much more at stake in Mexico than it has in Poland. All the more reason for Washington to make sure swine flu doesn't become Calderon's earthquake...