Sentences with phrase «of aid budgets»

Meanwhile, the definition of «mobilize» is purposefully broad, to include loans, private finance, grants with strings attached, and the reallocation of aid budgets.

If the food security budget were to double by 2016, and the aid program increased to 50 cents in every 100 dollars of government income as both major parties had committed to do, food security would be around 11 % of the aid budget.

When David Cameron addressed the Conservative Party conference in September, he cited his party's protection of the aid budget as an example of his government's international leadership.

«G8 governments must not continue to double count debt cancellation as part of their aid budget.

Oxfam warns this is far from the 0.7 per cent promised at the United Nations 30 years ago, and says too much of the aid budget - an estimated 40 per cent - is spent on expansive consultants flown in from donor countries.

«It seems to me a tiny fraction of the aid budget, the welfare budget and of the NHS, so tiny it would hardly affect them, would make an immense difference to defence.

They include greater transparency of the aid budget, redirection of aid to poorer countries, more market - driven aid and streamlining of the DFID bureaucracy.

«This misuse of our aid budget is an insult to our taxpayers and it must come to an end.

Business secretary Vince Cable joined Fox in his criticism of government ring - fencing areas of the budget but called himself a «strong supporter of the aid budget» in an interview with the Today programme.

UK Government announces new «transparency» conditions on part of its aid budget: spokespeople available to comment

Not exact matches

President Trump's budget for 2018 will slash funding on everything from Big Bird to foreign aid, while boosting support for the Pentagon and the construction of a border wall, the White House said Wednesday.

The investment in military hardware in Trump's budget would come at an expense of foreign aid and democracy promotion programs that have been a hallmark of U.S. foreign policy for decades.

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.

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.

Such a cut fits into Trump's «America first» worldview, but is alarming to lawmakers who see diplomacy and foreign aid as a small but crucial component of the federal budget, just more than 1 %.

And in one study in Somalia, researchers found that only 35 percent of a food aid budget went to beneficiaries, compared to a cash program, where 85 percent of aid went to beneficiaries.

A defense official said that US aid did not meet all the requirements, and that the Ministry of Defense will have to make up one third of the expenditure from its shekel budget.

 The Harper government's decision last year to write off every penny of the auto aid and thus build it all into last year's deficit calculation (which I questioned at the time as curious and even misleading) has already been proven wrong. Since the money was already «written off» by Ottawa as a loss (on grounds that they had little confidence it would be repaid — contradicting their own assurances at the same time that it was an «investment,» not a bail - out), any repayment will come as a gain that can be recorded in the budget on the revenue side. Jim Flaherty has learned from past Finance Ministers (especially Paul Martin) that it's always politically better to make the budget situation look worse than it is (even when the bottom has fallen out of the balance), thus positioning yourself to triumphantly announce «surprising good news» (due, no doubt, to «careful fiscal management») down the road. The auto package could thus generate as much as $ 10 billion in «surprising good news» for Ottawa in the years to come (depending on the ultimate worth of the public equity share).

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

Risking goverment shut down for three items that don't even affect the budget for a small miniorty radicals in a religion and the insane tea party knowing full well shut down will cause thousands of jobs lost and the end of aid for those who need it is completely ridiculous, why don't they care for the majority that voted them in and not a small insignificant group?

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

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.

8 One does not need a medical degree to recognize that admitting homosexuals into the military would bring about an increase in the number of AIDS cases and would put additional financial and personnel strains on military medicine, which must contend with a declining military budget and the challenge of recruiting and retaining sufficient medical personnel.

The findings of the ComRes study commissioned by Christian Aid have been published ahead of the Budget on Wednesday, which is expected to include new measures against tax avoidance following further revelations made in the Paradise Papers.

Although the amounts given by churches are tiny compared to the aid budgets of governments, the money has usually been well spent.

in Monday's edition of Politico, the opening salvo in what the leaders say will be a broader campaign to prevent cuts for the poor and international aid programs amid the budget battle raging in Washington.

A host of companies market CMS packages designed to aid churches in budgeting and accounting, tracking members and constituents, cataloging volunteer interests and gifts, recording attendance and scheduling activities.

Marking 60 years of Christian Aid Week, Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron covered in their write - ups their view on Britain's role in the world covering issues including the aid budget, the refugee crisis and helping to eradicate global poverAid Week, Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron covered in their write - ups their view on Britain's role in the world covering issues including the aid budget, the refugee crisis and helping to eradicate global poveraid budget, the refugee crisis and helping to eradicate global poverty.

More than half of the U.S. food aid budget is consumed by administrative and transportation expenses.

In his recent FY2011 budget request, President Obama requested significant funding increases for two of the main programs we have in the fight against malaria: the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

When we look at marriage from the very practical standpoint of housing, financial means, budgets, debts, and inheritance, it is clear that marriage can not be reduced to an emotional attachment and a distant promise of mutual aid.

She will also set out a number of green proposals in a 25 - year plan for the environment including eliminating all avoidable plastic waste by 2042 and a commitment to spend part of the Government's multi-billion annual overseas aid budget on international measures to cut plastic use.

Oxfam are urging Australia's political parties to commit to a major increase in our foreign aid budget and the proportion of it that goes to working with small - scale producers, women especially, to tackle food insecurity in the global south.

In their first ever season in the top flight, Girona's tiny budget on paper is aided by Manchester City's part ownership of the Catalans with five players on loan from the Premier League leaders.

Payplan and SANE recently came together to bring the issue of debt to surface, and aid anyone who is under any financial stress to come forward and take full control of their budgeting.

Go to ONE.org to add your voice to protect the Federal budget for foreign aid (less than 1 % of the overall budget!)

The Cincinnati Waldorf School's Board of Trustees» responsibilities include providing support and aid to the faculty in implementing a Waldorf educational program, to authorize major business and financial decisions, to appoint chairs and members of standing committees and to adopt the budget for the Cincinnati Waldorf School.

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.

«First, we're pleased that the Assembly included a seven - year extension of mayoral control, as well as an increase in school aid and funds for universal pre-K over the Executive Budget,» de Blasio said.

In 2013, international aid amounted to 20 % of the GDP and 49 % of budget (World Bank).

That's thanks largely to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who was the first to suggest additional disaster aid — remember that FEMA only has about $ 800 million on hand, which is less than even New York's estimated storm bill of $ 1 billion — be offset by other budget cuts.

Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.

Local governments had raised concerns with the program as proposed by Cuomo's initial budget presentation, pointing to the costs they've managed to contain over the years as well as the lack of increased state aid over the years.

To go back to Keynsianism, you don't cut spending when you're just barely struggling out of a recession, unless you've drunk the Hoover Kool Aid (go look at his policies in» 30 - ’31 if you think budget - cutting's a good idea right now — utterly disastrous).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo disagreed and kept member items out of the state's $ 132.6 billion budget (though so - called «bullet aid» for education was allowed and allocated by Senate Republicans).

The government's plans to protect health and aid budgets have been attacked as unjustified by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).

Senate Republicans in the final budget agreement were able to secure elements of their original one - house budget resolution on key issues ranging from education aid to upstate transportation, a source familiar with the talks said.

Krueger said a number of things are still under discussion, including the SUNY empowerment plan and the education aid that the Legislature restored to the budget and the governor vetoed.

The charter aid comes as Senate Republicans debate the final details of the state budget plan this afternoon.

Kaminsky has in recent weeks been archly critical of the controversial Common Core standards and raised questions after Republicans successfully pushed for a boost in charter school aid the budget and then received campaign support from the pro-charter organization.