Foreign aid refers to the international transfer of capital‚ goods or services in the form of grants or loans; sometimes it is referred to as voluntary transfer either from one government to another (bilateral assistance) or through a multilateral assistance agency like the World Bank for the benefit of the recipient country or its population. Aid can be in the form of economic‚ military or emergency humanitarian aid‚ especially during natural disasters. (Todaro and Smith 2010:229) Foreign aid was conceived
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Aid is an important part of our world that helps to improve and benefit the lives of others. Aid is financial or physical support from countries or public organisations to other states that are in times of need. While Aid is most often perceived as help to regions that have suffered from natural disasters‚ it comes in many forms. Aid is also not often provided because of good will and generosity from countries‚ it is used strategically to benefit both receiving and providing parties. Financial support
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"Is AIDS Mainly in Homosexuals?" AIDS‚ acquired immunodeficiency syndrome‚ has been around for a decade. A disease that over time shuts down a person’s immune system causing the white blood cells to weaken‚ making them unable to protect the body from outside germs and infections. Since the first case of AIDS was reported in medical literature in the late 1970’s‚ people have been wondering what is the origin of this foreign disease? Lisa Law stated in 2000’s Sex Work in Asia that there are
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In the 1980s‚ the words “AIDS” and “HIV” were not on the radar for most of American society. The words were just something people might occasionally hear when someone passed away‚ but these the deaths almost never occurred close to home. America would quickly become confronted with the threat of AIDS as a very serious health epidemic. If one were to ask someone during the 1980s their thoughts‚ they might reply with a vague response that AIDS was just a marginal disease affecting a remote section
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CBSE Guide on Class 10 Social Science Disaster Management Project - Pocket Guide on First Aid 72 Submitted by Administrator on Mon‚ 02/07/2011 - 21:03 This article contains the write up for the CBSE Class 10 Social Science Project - Pocket Guide on First Aid. The question for the project is - Prepare a pocket guide on First Aid for your school. The First Aid pocket guide should contain aid that needs to be given for fractures‚ poisoning‚ cuts and burns‚ heat and cold wave and other threats
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AVIATION FIRST AID Introduction: The aviation first aid course introduces crews to first aid in an aviation environment‚ and ensures they have basic‚ essential knowledge to treat and care for passengers. First aid is the provision of initial care for an illness or injury. It is usually performed by non-expert‚ but trained personnel to a sick or injured person
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Topic: HIV and AIDS Introduction: Colin Powell Colin Powell Rabbi David Saperstein Rabbi David Saperstein "No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic." which is said by Colin Powell‚ is an American statesman of military world. Recently‚ the problem of having AIDS is very common. The numbers of infected people keep going up every year. "AIDS can competently destroy families‚ decimates communities and‚ particularly in the poorest areas of the world‚ threatens to
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Is aid a good thing? Aid is help‚ typically of a practical nature‚ with the intention of helping less fortunate countries. We do this because it is what we Christians and other people believe should be done in situations of great need‚ and hope that if we were in a similar position would be looked after as well. For example Great Britain have given lots of aid to the Philippines after the recent typhoon there has struck them. In this essay I will discuss whether aid is in fact a good thing or a
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Foreign aid is usually associated with official development assistance‚ which in turn is a subset of the official development finance‚ and normally targeted to the poorest countries (World Bank‚ 1998). Foreign aid represents an important source of finance in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)‚ where it supplements low savings‚ narrow export earnings and thin tax bases. In recent years the donor community has become more stringent about fiscal discipline and good policies‚ which has led to
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The emergence of HIV and AIDs in the early 1980s has led to untold public health‚ socio-economic and demographic challenges. Describe the impact of HIV/AIDs on individuals‚ family and the community under the following headings Educational‚ Economic‚ Social‚ Demographic‚ Psycho-emotional‚ Religious ECONOMIC Countries with high national debts and low GNP such as Mozambique experience greater difficulties in providing the care and support to the infected and affected. HIV/AIDS results in greater number
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