Sentences with phrase «of aid spending»

The incoming secretary of state, Andrew Mitchell, ordered a root - and - branch review of our aid spending, which resulted in 16 countries that no longer needed our aid, including Russia and China, being dropped altogether once existing commitments are fulfilled.

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With the aid of an executive assistant who's a former statistician, Smith tracks everything from the number of hours he devotes to interviews to how much one - on - one time he spends with each of his children.

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.

Early on, Preston spent much of his time righting the ship of disaster aid, but now he's focusing more on the small business in the SBA.

Branson could spend all of his time on Necker Island, but he's using his billions and voice (he's got over 2 million followers) to try and solve some of the world's biggest problems, like the HIV / AIDS pandemic and global warming.

Put simply, the house plan, entitled American Health Care ACT (AHCA), essentially caps what the government will pay to aid families and poor people, and what it will spend in total, regardless of how fast medical costs increase.

So, I spent a lot of my time during junior and senior years of high school researching the process and trying to find «secret» ways to get the most financial aid possible — all the strategies I assumed my peers were already taking advantage of.

Science shows a touch of narcissism can actually aid business success, but spend any time at all in the world of work and you quickly discover some professionals let their self - love run wild.

Tomorrow, in part three of our four - part series «Why we can't stop spending,» we look at how government policy has aided and abetted Canadians» slide into unsustainable debt.

As part of the explanation as to why Europe gives proportionately more ODA, Gunzburg noted that countries with bigger welfare states — like those for which the Scandinavian nations are famed — tend to pay higher taxes, leading to more government revenue that can be spent on aid.

Though many charitable organizations spend a major portion of the donations they receive on aid, a troubling number of delinquent ones spend upwards of 97 percent of their funds on non-aid expenses.

(Colleges expect parents to spend up to 6 % of their assets each year and children up to 35 % of their assets a year before they'll provide financial aid.)

With some of the taxes kept, then Senate leaders are now looking to spend more money on provisions, like Medicaid and financial aid for private coverage, that moderates are focused on.

And The New York Times yesterday pointed out that all of the $ 31.5 billion in new aid is not going to be spent on the Greek people any more than the American QE3 is spent here; it's going to be given to the Greek banks to help pull them out of their negative equity and all of their bad real estate mortgages.

For four decades it has been much debated, since the aid program — currently capped at around $ 4 billion — accounts for a significant amount of the federal government's discretionary spending.

A number of papers seize on the remarks of the former Minister for International Development, Grant Shapps, that Britain's spending on foreign aid is «out of control».

Market Insights provides managers and decision - makers tools which can help shape a firm's vision and aid in the determination of where to spend development dollars.

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.

-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

I don't disagree with John. Personally, I have a long list of things I'd like to see more public spending on (i.e. child care, non-profit housing, income support, public transit, student financial aid, etc.).

The U.S. Senate reached a bipartisan deal on stopgap spending designed to avoid a government shutdown and defuse a fight over aid to victims of natural disasters.

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

Having spent the past three years (up until August 1991) working in the public health department of a Florida city, I can assure you that AIDS can be transmitted through heterosexual intercourse, and that it in fact is being so transmitted at an increasing rate.

According to Advertising Age (registration required), his (RED) campaign has spent upward of $ 100 million on advertising to produce a mere $ 18 million for the Global Fund to support African AIDS programs.A little more than a....

Washington (CNN)-- The Rev. Franklin Graham spends most of his time running an international aid group called Samaritan's Purse.

In tiny El Salvador, a country the size of Massachusetts, the U.S. government spent about $ 700 per minute ($ 1.4 million per day), largely on military aid, over the past ten years fueling a deadly civil war and in effect paying the military slayers of the six Jesuits in November 1989.

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.

Now I expect Dill Beacon to try to come to the rescue of the RCC explainiing how they spend huge amounts of money providing medicine for AIDS and HIV positive people.

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

The ad and the broader campaign are aimed mostly at a spending measure passed by the Republican - led House of Representatives that cuts $ 61 billion from current spending levels, including cuts to Head Start, the Women Infants and Children (WIC) program and international aid programs.

We spent part of today having hard discussions about relief, international development, aid work, orphan care and prevention, all of the gigantic snarl of issues and mess and problems.

The whole quandary really reached a climax when I visited India, where I spent enough time with orphans, widows, and AIDS patients to realize that Americans have a skewed view of blessings.

A Catholic charity that helps persecuted Christians will spend # 63,000 giving aid to victims of extremist... More

Because of these rules up to 32 cents of every $ 1 spent on food aid goes to waste.»

A leering old villain in a frock, who spent decades conspiring behind closed doors for the position he now holds; a man who believes he is infallible and acts the part; a man whose preaching of scientific falsehood is responsible for the deaths of countless AIDS victims in Africa; a man whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence: in short, exactly the right man for the job.

Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad is a technocrat who spent his career at the World Bank and was imposed by Western donors who were tired of Fatah's stealing the lion's share of foreign 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.

Carlo Ancelotti may well have been forced to offload a player or two in order to aid the La Liga side's chances of adhering to UEFA's FFP (Financial Fair Play) guidelines having spent almost # 100m on the aforementioned Rodriguez as well as German midfielder Toni Kroos and Levante keeper Navas Keylor.

There was plenty of promise surrounding his talent at Arsenal and having spent many years on aiding his development, it seemed a shame to lose him in such pitiful circumstances.

Manchester City could look to spend their way out of trouble this season as they are linked with some big - money moves to help aid their growing injury problems in attack.

I was in the 6th form at school in Barking at the time and all through December we would spend the evening carol singing in aid of Cancer Research (or the Imperial Cancer Fund (ICF?)

Students and parents spend too much time seeking out private scholarships, and not enough focusing on where the bulk of aid money actually originates.

Formed against a background of economic curtailment on welfare spending and a huge increase in the number of HIV and AIDS cases, Wola Nani initiated programs to help HIV + people in the local community cope with the emotional and financial strains brought about by HIV and AIDS.

I would also like to add that I'd spent all of 2012 up to the first week of June when I got my BFP talking to my doctor about my issue with not having a period and TTC and had an appointment to see a fertility specialist about starting fertility aid medications literally one week later!

And yes, billions have been spent on direct aid to families in the form of welfare, food stamps, housing vouchers and other payments.

Don't spend a ton of money on clay crafts for kids when you can make your own play dough in no time with just a few ingredients and some brightly colored Kool - Aid.

The UK's existing commitment of 0.7 % of GNI to be spent on aid and the integrity of its primary purpose being directed towards poverty alleviation, must also be protected.

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.»

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).