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foreign aid

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foreign aid
n.
Aid, such as economic or military assistance, offered by one nation to another.
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Noun1.foreign aid - aid (such as economic or military assistance) provided to one nation by another
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
economic aid, financial aid, aid - money to support a worthy person or cause
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After a stint in the Peace Corps and more than forty years in Latin America and Africa, I would recommend the use of foreign aid to establish and strengthen universities throughout the developing world.
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That's the essence of the financial-aid shell game, played with international foreign aid (and, in a slightly modified version, with "free trade" agreements).
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The government scored poorly in areas such as foreign aid, assisting developing countries, environmental sustainability efforts and progress in relation to Millennium Development Goals--a blueprint to halve poverty by 2015.
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