Sentences with phrase «aid spending target»

For instance, Nick Clegg has made a great deal of his proposal of free school meals, shouted his pro-European credentials and is now showing his vigorous support for a private member's bill that seeks to enshrine in law the United Nations overseas aid spending target.

Not exact matches

Three - in - ten (31 %) say the country is at or close to that figure, while just one - in - four (26 %) correctly identify Canada's foreign aid spending as below the target

Our commitment to ring - fence the budget of the Department for International Development, and meet the target of spending 0.7 % of Gross National Income by 2013 on foreign aid, are founded on our conviction that the issues of development, security and trade are intertwined.

«We believe that development aid should be judged by the criteria of effectiveness and value for money, not by whether a specific arbitrary spending target is reached.»

At the same time, Cuomo has declined to release school aid runs — individual spending targets for school districts, which is a break with past practice.

And under this government, we will continue to meet the international aid target, spending 0.7 % of our GNI on international development.

The target of spending 0.7 % of GNI on overseas aid will also remain in place.

In principle such a bill should have little problem being pushed through as the Conservative party has also pledged to meet the UN target of 0.7 % of national income spent on international aid, though a spokesman for Douglas Alexander, the international development secretary, claimed that the Tories would not back the draft bill.

«Gordon Brown made a firm commitment to enshrine the 0.7 % target for aid spending in statute, but just seven weeks on he has abandoned that promise,» Moore said.

Overseas aid spending would increase to a 2013 target of 0.7 per cent of national income.

Fellow Tory MP Peter Bone is also critical of the Government's move since 2010 to protect and raise aid spending to the United Nations target of 0.7 per cent of national income.

In an earlier newspaper interview with the Sun, she hinted at some domestic policy pledges, including potentially dropping the target of spending 0.7 % of national income on foreign aid and scrapping the triple lock on pensions.

The White House has not said exactly how it would reduce nondefense spending by $ 54 billion to the targeted $ 461 billion, but has promised to slash foreign aid, the Environmental Protection Agency, and programs that address climate change.

c. Donors should commit to clear targets — whether doubling of aid to basic education or ensuring that at least 10 % of aid is spent on basic education.

There may well be states where additional targeted grant aid would be a better use of marginal increases in expenditures than additional appropriations to institutions (i.e., the additional spending may do more, on a per - dollar basis, to further policymakers» goals).

The two proposals come forward as lawmakers consider legislation sponsored by the California PTA that would strengthen requirements that schools engage parents in spending decisions over the use of billions of dollars in state aid to targeted students — English learners, low - income students and foster youth.

«As the authors of ConnCan's recent Spend Smart brief explain deeply embedded in a footnote... you really only need to use a single factor to get state aid targeted to the right schools and that factor is the share of children qualifying for FREE OR REDUCED PRICED LUNCH.

California also targets 40 percent of its state aid to struggling schools — ones that serve low - income students, foster - care students and English - language learners — rather than spending the funds evenly throughout the state.

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