Sentences with phrase «in foreign aid spending»

Not exact matches

The February federal budget deal, meanwhile, hikes outlays in both of the two categories of «discretionary» spending, defense and federal programs from foreign aid to housing subsidies, by an unprecedented 12 %, or $ 150 billion a year in 2018 and 2019.

President Donald Trump will propose beefing up military spending and slashing domestic programs and foreign aid in his fiscal year 2018 budget to be released on Thursday.

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

We spend millions in foreign aid.

Idea ten in the list, for example, is cutting foreign aid and spending the savings on British pensioners.

The foreign secretary backed president Hamid Karzai's proposal to be given more control over aid spending in the country in return for intensified training of Afghan security forces.

Foreign aid would hardly make a rounding error in US spending on education and health care.

I can't speaks as to other countries, but in the US, only $ 30 billion is spent on foreign aid.

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.

In fact, the U.S. spends just 1 percent of its budget on foreign aid.

The dog in modern households is loved, indulged (we spend more on pet food than we do on foreign aid), cosseted and cuddled.

But does this security issue relate to the main provisions of the climate bill, or more to how much the Pentagon and State Department spend on preemptive risk reduction as opposed to war - fighting, on the scope and focus of American foreign aid, on building prosperity and resilience in Africa and South Asia?

By way of comparison, consider that the rich countries currently spend a little over $ 100 billion per year in foreign development aid.

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 worlIn 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 worlin October, Carbon Brief focused in on how the UK spends its foreign aid budget on tackling climate change around the worlin on how the UK spends its foreign aid budget on tackling climate change around the world.

In previous posts on Bjorn Lomborg's Copenhagen Consensus exercise, both before and after the event, I expressed the suspicion that the whole thing was a setup, designed to push Lomborg's favorite line that money spent on implementing the Kyoto protocol would be better allocated to foreign aid projects of various kinds.