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...gift would hopefully put a stake in the ground,” Flier said, adding that the Medical School is also ready to contribute financially to the institute. “But coming as it is with certain, specific intentions of the donor, it does not fully do what I believe the University will want to do in the broad area of bioengineering...
Japan, once the world's biggest donor nation, is stepping up efforts to boost its influence in resource-rich developing countries by creating a super agency that will dispense billions of dollars a year in foreign aid, most of it bound for Africa and Asia - regions where China is rapidly increasing its clout as an aid donor and commercial partner...
...Japan, which has the world's second-largest economy, was the No. 1 provider of overseas aid in the 1990s. After years of sluggish economic growth, the country ranks fifth among donor nations according to the organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. (Aid has fallen by about 40% and is a hit to Japan's diplomatic clout). In an Oct. 3 speech, Sadako Ogata, JICA's president since 2003, chided Japanese society for its lack of support of foreign aid and questioned the country's ability to play a leadership role in areas such as alternative energy development...
...Politics is partly to blame. U.S. laws state that the $1.5 billion or so in food donated yearly by the United States - the world's biggest food donor - must be grown by American farmers and shipped on U.S.-flagged vessels, despite costing billions of dollars. "Congress has been very protectionist about its food-aid program," says Gawain Kripke, policy director of Oxfam America, which has pushed hard for changes in the U.S. laws. "The U.S. is a massive contributor of food aid, but a very inefficient...
...Other gifts included $25 million from Brazilian businessman Jorge P. Lemann ’61 to fund Brazilian studies, $15 million from an anonymous donor to fund science programs, $13 million from the estate of television mogul Alan Gleitsman to support social activism at the Harvard Kennedy School, and $10 million each to support the Harvard Divinity School and to fund research on energy and the environment...