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aid

(Help), noun abetment, accommodation, advance, advocacy, aidance, assistance, auspices, backing, benefit, coadjuvancy, cooperation, countenance, endorsement, facilitation, furtherance, guidance, help, maintenance, ministration, ministry, patronage, reinforcement, relief, rescue, service, sponsorship, subscription, subsidy, subsistence, succor, support, sustenance, tutelage, willing help
Associated concepts: aid and abet, aid and comfort

aid

(Subsistence), noun benefaction, benefit, charity, compensation, endowment, humanitarianism, ministration, ministry, patronage, relief, subsidy, support, sustainment, sustenance

aid

verb abet, advance, assist, augment, avail, be auxiliary to, be of service, benefit, collaborate, cooperate with, facilitate, further, give aid, give support, help, minnster to, nurture, oblige, promote, provision, reinforce, r ender help, r escue, second, serve, service, strengthen, subserve, succor, supplement, support, uphold
Associated concepts: aid and abet, aid and comfort

aid

abet

in English law, aiding and abetting is the helping in some way of the principal offender. It is in itself a crime but depends upon some earlier communication between the parties. See, for Scotland, ART AND PART.

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She even realizes her shortcomings when she admits that "I'm glad this isn't a concern being run for private profit and that I wasn't born a businessman." This concern over creating a more financially accountable humanitarian system remains a central preoccupation of the aid industry.

Embroidering History: An Englishwoman's Experience as a Humanitarian Aid Volunteer in Post-War Poland, 1924-1925

Finally, the architects of the aid industry, namely the OECD countries and the World Bank, have recognised that they cannot use that word any more.

'Aid is a dirty word, like colonialism': there are at least a million people in the west who live off the aid industry. They have a vested interest in perpetuating it. But it will disintegrate over time and die slowly, says Yashpal Tandon pictured right, the Ugandan policymaker, political activist, professor, author, and public intellectual. Welt-Sichten interviewed him

Meanwhile, the so-called Aid industry states that Africa needs $20bn to survive the credit crunch.

White-collar crime

Day arrives at a crucial time for the financial aid industry and plans to further the initiatives that Martin took to improve the integrity of financial aid professionals.

NASFAA names new president

A provocative anecdote sums up William Easterly's indictment of the aid industry. An ex-World Banker now teaching at New York University, he recalls how, in 2005, conscience-stricken executives attending the World Economic Forum at Davos in the Swiss Alps contributed $1 million on the spot to buy bed nets for poor people in Africa.

Wasting money on Africa

THE Government yesterday faced demands to further aid industry expansion plans as 60 new research jobs were confirmed.

60 jobs for drug firm HQ

Thomas Dichter, who spent four decades in developing countries, including working for a variety of national and international aid agencies, admitted that late in his career he finally understood that, "as a means of reducing world poverty, aid has not worked, is not likely to work in the future, and cannot work." (Emphasis in original.) In a Cato Institute policy briefing last fall, Dichter, the author of Despite Good Intentions: Why Development Assistance to the Third World Has Failed, also noted: "Whereas a large corporation cannot lose money forever without facing some consequences, the aid industry has gone on for 60 years with hardly anything to show for the two trillion dollars it has spent (something it does not really bother to deny), and yet it is still very much in business."

Foreign aid: giving until it hurts

Well perhaps, but don't count on it--especially if the aid industry is expected to do the heavy lifting.

Aid [not equal to] help: development aid is driven by politics, not a desire to alleviate poverty

Primarily to aid industry and enhance its competitiveness, Congress mandated in 1993 that the Department of Defense (DoD) establish an office of technology transition.

Technology transition--a critical element in homeland security

The leading lights of the development aid industry, he reports, don't know much about economic growth.

Road show: the rock star and the treasury secretary demonstrate the limits to aid. (Columns)

If, as the editor tells us at the outset, 'governance' is shorthand for 'good government' in the language of the aid industry, then most of the chapters in this book can be read as descriptions of 'bad government', or at least as descriptions of post-colonial states in which the institutions of liberal democracy and public administration which form part of their colonial legacy fail to function in a manner which is either pleasing to the former colonial powers or conducive to the achievement of economic growth and public order.

Governance and Reform in the South Pacific

This two-part series takes a critical look at the international emergency aid industry and explores whether well-intentioned aid operations like Band Aid have inadvertently caused more suffering than they have alleviated because the agencies were used by unscrupulous governments.