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U.S. foreign aid has been crucial to the international AIDS response, especially to the rollout of antiretrovirals (ARVs) in Africa. The unprecedented scale of funding that has been raised to combat this disease evolved out of fears that AIDS was a both a humanitarian disaster and a threat to international security and economic development. U.S. commitment to fighting AIDS in Africa has traditionally been, and still is, buoyed by bi-partisan support. This support has remained strong post-2007. Even so, the view is widespread that African country governments ought to take greater ownership of combating the problem and reducing aid dependency in managing it. One of the most effective interventions the United States could make to this end would be to ensure that trade negotiations facilitate, rather than impede, the supply of affordable ARVs for developing countries. Boosting U.S. development assistance to the international target of 0.7% of national income would also help.

Whether the U.S. government should be allowed to claim credit for the private philanthropy of its citizens is a hot topic in today's foreign aid debate. Overlooked in this debate, however, is a form of aid that straddles the traditional public/private divide: charitable tax expenditures. Through the many tax privileges that the United States grants to its nonprofit organizations, the government implicitly foots some portion of the bill anytime these organizations send money abroad for development purposes. Unlike official development assistance (ODA), these tax expenditure funds are privately organized and distributed, yet unlike voluntary transfers they are paid for by the public fisc. This is not private aid; it is privatized aid. At the same time that direct expenditures on aid were falling in recent decades, these tax expenditures were rising. The basic, descriptive goal of this Comment is to show how nonprofit tax policies have shaped the content of American aid. The broader goal is to connect this insight with the literatures on tax expenditures and international development. If one accepts the Comment's theoretical premise, then U.S. government spending on aid is somewhat larger, and substantially different in character, than most commentators have assumed. Although tax expenditures on foreign aid raise a number of concerns, they also, I contend, possess unique virtues that can make them a valuable complement to ODA.

Richard C. Holbrooke, former Assistant Secretary of State and chief negotiator behind the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the war in Bosnia. Holbrooke addresses contemporary and humanitarian issues and provides insights as to why these issues are important to people everywhere. Acclaimed by The New York Times as a "master of impossible missions," Holbrooke became known as the world's premier negotiator by arranging an unprecedented multiparty agreement, bringing the United States back into good standing with the United Nations. At the same time, he persuaded U.N. members to reduce the United States' share of dues and assessments, convinced Congress to release $582 billion in unpaid U.N. assessments, and enlisted the aid of media mogul Ted Turner to pay the balance of those dues. For his work on the Dayton accords, Holbrooke received five Nobel Peace Prize nominations. His best-selling account of the negotiations, "To End a War," was named one of the 10 best books of 1998 by The New York Times. Holbrooke began his foreign service career after graduating from Brown University in 1962. He served on the Vietnam staff of President Lyndon Johnson and as Peace Corps director in Morocco. President Jimmy Carter appointed him assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs in 1977, and President Clinton named him to that same office for European and Canadian affairs, making Holbrooke the only person ever to hold assistant secretary of state posts in two regions. Holbrooke has served as vice chairman of CS First Boston and as managing director of Lehman Brothers.

How do the perceived motives of donor states shape recipient attitudes toward foreign aid in a conflict zone? This research note evaluates the impact of two frames that characterize the motives of foreign powers involved in a civil conflict in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. These frames portray foreign actors as providing aid either to alleviate suffering during conflict (humanitarian frame) or to increase their power and influence in the recipient country (political influence frame). We demonstrate how framing impacts attitudes toward foreign assistance from the European Union and the Russian government among potential aid recipients in the Donbas. The results show that frames impact support for foreign aid from the European Union but have no effect on views of Russian aid. Counter to conventional expectations, aid provided for geopolitical, strategic reasons may be viewed as a positive, stabilizing force—even more than foreign aid provided for humanitarian reasons.

The Israel Defense Forces are focused on facilitating humanitarian aid entering northern Gaza as well as on receiving aid that will arrive via the US-built temporary floating pier off the coast of Gaza. The IDF's 99th division also began operating to secure the Netzerim corridor in Gaza, a key element of protecting the aid that may arrive whether by land or by sea.
The post IDF Focuses on Humanitarian Aid in Gaza first appeared on FDD's Long War Journal.

One area that has the potential for an earthquake is West Sulawesi. When an earthquake occurs, the West Sulawesi government will arrange disaster aid distribution through the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD). This research aims at designing an information system to help the management of aid supplies in West Sulawesi. We used a descriptive method in this research. The qualitative approach was also used in this study to obtain the data. The results show that the difficulty faced by BPBD Majene is in communication between various parties involved in disaster management and recording disaster data. It is due to the complex conditions of the Majene earthquake and difficult coordination. So that in developing this information system is expected to provide easy access by users. In conclusion, with this information system, they can share information by the access rights in the information system.

Einstellungen und Verhalten der Niederländer gegenüber
Entwicklungsländern und Entwicklungshilfe.

Themen: Wahrnehmung der Situation und der Probleme der
Entwicklungsländer; Beurteilung der Effizienz
verschiedener Maßnahmen zur Entwicklungshilfe; Informiertheit
über Entwicklungshilfeaktionen und Informationsquellen
der Befragten zu diesem Themenkreis; eigene Teilnahme
an Entwicklungshilfeaktionen.

Demographie: Alter; Geschlecht; Familienstand; Konfession;
Schulbildung; Einkommen; Mitgliedschaft.