Sentences with phrase «national aid spending»

Even countries such as Germany, where fiscal constraints have been less severe, faced increasing pressure on the visibility of national aid spending and have become more suspicious of channelling aid through multilateral channels, especially the EU.

Not exact matches

So when President Barack Obama pushed for a $ 60 billion package of federal aid, it sparked more than three months of partisan sparring — a delay that left Democrats and northeastern Republicans fuming while the remainder of the GOP fulminated against the threat of a growing national debt and the inclusion of spending they deemed wasteful.

Christian aid agencies have praised George Osborne's budget announcement which confirmed the UK will spend 0.7 % of its national income on aid this yea... More

With the aid of contributors like Save America's Treasures, the National Park Service renovated the church's sanctuary to resemble the years that King spent there as a pastor.

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.

Despite this, their detailed tax policies are a net giveaway of 0.1 % of national income, their detailed social security measures would only provide a tenth of the cuts that they have said they want to deliver, and their commitments on aid, the NHS and schools would (relative to a real freeze) increase spending on these areas by 0.3 % of national income.

The government should drop its commitment to spending 0.7 % of gross national income on development aid, peers have said.

The last Conservative manifesto contained a commitment not just to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on overseas aid, but also to «legislate in the first session of a new Parliament to lock in this level of spending for every year from 2013.»

Assuming he hasn't had a change of heart and decided to row back on promises set out in the Conservative manifesto and the Coalition Agreement, the detail in the Red Book will confirm that the UK will meet its promise to spend 0.7 % of our national income on aid from next year.

Lynne Featherstone and I were in Ethiopia, for whom Britain is now the first member of the G8 to have met the decades - old promise by rich countries to spend 0.7 % of our national wealth on aid for the developing world.

The Green Party condemned UKIP's proposal to cut aid spending from 0.7 % of national income to 0.2 %.

«It says, «If your spending per enrollee is more than 25 percent above the national average, you're going to take a little extra haircut on your federal aid,»» Hammond said.

In the coming Budget, we will become the first G8 country to realise the historic promise to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on aid.

Conservative enemies of development spending could unite to block a bid to force future governments to spend 0.7 % of gross national income (GNI) on aid.

Last week's Budget comes hot on the heels of the news that the coalition government's pledge to spend 0.7 % of the UK's national income as overseas aid has finally made it into law (pending royal sign - off).

Cuomo recently released a report showing that New York City has 91 failing schools and Syracuse has 18 despite significant aid increases in recent years and per pupil spending way above the national average.

It now stands behind Luxemburg, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium and Finland, spending 0.41 per cent of national income on overseas aid.

The EU12 group of recent entrants to the EU including Cyprus and Malta as well as Eastern European countries - has promised to spend 0.17 per cent of national income on aid by 2010 and 0.33 per cent by 2015.

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.

International aid campaigners welcomed the prime minister's decision to include in his legislative agenda the international development spending draft bill, which will put the government's commitment to spend 0.7 % of national income on development from 2013 on to the statute books.

A Mail on Sunday petition calling for a Commons debate on Britain's commitment to spend 0.7 per of national income on foreign aid has got a staggering 150,000 plus signatures, only a week after its launch.

[8] Although commentators perceived Brown to have made some good decisions during the economic crisis, such as providing financial aid to several UK banks which found themselves in difficulty, his fiscal policy of borrowing and spending led to a dramatic increase in the country's national debt.

To those who say that we should continue in Labour's vein, simply patting ourselves on the back for getting money out of the door, I say this: Our commitment to reaching 0.7 % of national income on aid by 2013, and enshrining this in law, imposes an even greater duty on us, more than any other department in Whitehall to get value for money, to bear down on waste, and to ensure that aid secures 100 pence of value for every hard - earned British taxpayer's pound we spend.

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

As the Guardian reports today, Bill Gates has warned Theresa May that if the Conservatives go ahead and abandon the UK's pledge to spend 0.7 % of national wealth on aid, its influence in the world will be reduced and more lives will be lost in Africa.

In the summer a National Audit Office (NAO) report showed money was being wasted because civil servants were struggling to hit the legal requirement of spending 0.7 per cent of the nation's income on overseas aid.

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.

He used the cover of the Lib Dems to press ahead with bold reforms at the heart of his modernising project: making gay marriage legal, introducing Free Schools, overhauling Britain's something - for - nothing benefits culture and — controversially — committing to spend 0.7 per cent of UK national income on foreign aid.

«It says «if you're spending per enrollee is more than 25 % above the national average, you're going to take a little extra hair cut on your federal aid»,» Hammond said.

Moran points out that of the $ 67.5 million cut from HIV / AIDS research spending in 2010, $ 32 million was due to cuts by the US National Institutes of Health, and a further $ 17 million was cut by the UK Department for International Development (see «Fighting a killer»).

For example, at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which spent $ 300 million on AIDS in 2014 — totaling 30 % of its overall budget — about 23 % of AIDS proposals won funding, compared with only 18 % of grants overall.

Justin Draeger, president of National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, said he disagrees that everything has to be on the table in terms of spending cuts.

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Home to 40 per cent of Canada's population, Ontario spends half of the total national legal aid funding.

In fourth place for spending is Alberta, where again mostly private practioners do the work and use nine per cent of national legal aid funding.