Sentences with phrase «foreign aid budget»

So this is a terrible time for the US to be signaling that it's seeking to cut foreign aid budget that is already only 0.2 % of US national income, less than 1 % of the federal budget.

«Multiple politicians have told us that in order for them to support measures like increased foreign aid budgets, they need to see the constituency first.»

It's been estimated that it would only cost 0.1 % of the global foreign aid budget to get accurate statistics on the current world population, and see who is dying of what and why, rather than the dismal state such knowledge is in today.

Add this to our newly doubled Foreign Aid budget of $ 8 Million AUD per year, and we have a figure of approx $ 11.5 Million AUD.

At the most recent CNN Republican primary debate, Santorum was one of the few candidates to defend the U.S. foreign aid budget, leading to a nod of approval from the ONE Campaign.

Remedial action on this front will require extreme vigilance over foreign aid budgets, and careful attention will have to be paid to the Clinton Administration as it tries to square its adherence to an international agreement that flatly rejects abortion as a means of family planning with its commitment to huge increases in U.S. aid funding to organizations that actively promote precisely that evil.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage also said it was time to consider «diverting some of the huge foreign aid budget to help those in need here in the UK».

The first way to understand a problem, of course, is to accurately understand its scope and the failure to determine these current life, health, and death statistics means we can't test the efficacy of how any of the global foreign aid budget is being spent.

Australia's contribution will be taken from its existing foreign aid budget.

Add this to our newly doubled Foreign Aid budget of $ 8 Billion AUD per year, and we have a figure of approx $ 11.5 Billion AUD.

The proposed cut to the State Department's diplomatic corps and the foreign aid budget are particularly striking, and likely to include security contractors at diplomatic missions abroad after the GOP criticized Democrats for security at the U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans died in a 2012 attack.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., who once headed the panel responsible for the foreign aid budget, stressed the need for robust spending as word circulated on Capitol Hill about the GOP president's proposal.

Lib Dem candidate for Mitcham and Morden, Claire Mathys says her party would use the foreign aid budget carefully, explaining: «It needs to be for aid.

In a statement marking the 60th Anniversary of Christian Aid week, the charity of which he is chair, he defended Britain's foreign aid budget and urged the country to look outwards as the UK prepares to leave the European Union.

Addressing the controversial subject of the foreign aid budget Dr Williams said people should recognise that our good is bound up with that of others:

British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that countries which persecute gay people will find their foreign aid budget cut.

It would be an untenable move from the UK, no matter how much of the foreign aid budget is lost through corruption and fraud, and more importantly, the economic repercussions would be felt at home — but that does not mean the budget justifies an increase until European jurisdiction is negotiated.

But after a brief pause and a moment's thought, this instant gesture of mine seems like a step too far; and whilst those factors of inefficiency and waste remain true, beheading the foreign aid budget immediately would create a hydra - like problem, where one problem is removed, more appear in its place.

As a Conservative MP I publicly opposed the increases in the foreign aid budget under Andrew Mitchell's leadership.

UKIP MP Douglas Carswell said: «The sort of people who have dinner parties in Notting Hill think there's something unseemly about wanting to cut the foreign aid budget.

A former Cabinet Minister last night called on supporters of the foreign aid budget to restate the case for investing in overseas development.

He said any decision to make further cuts to the foreign aid budget would not require parliamentary approval.

One such hazard is the idea, launched some decades ago, and implemented in some countries, to legislate allocation of a minimum level of GDP to the foreign aid budget.

In a separate article, published in October, Carbon Brief focused in on how the UK spends its foreign aid budget on tackling climate change around the world.

The cluster of dedicated climate - changing lobbyists will grow (slightly) and Australia's foreign aid budget will shrink.