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i wonder if you have same identity complex.Get a life.
India had been recieving international aid too. If you want should i start posting here.
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After Sri Lankan Gen. Fonseca's 2008 visit, Pakistan sold 22 Al-Khalid tanks to Sri Lanka in a deal worth over US$100 million. Sri Lanka also purchased Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher System (MBRLS), cluster bombs, deep penetration bombs and rockets and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) from Pakistan, according to various reports. In fact, Sri Lanka, along with some Middle Eastern nations, has now become one of the largest buyers of Pakistani arms in the last few years.
What has happened in Sri Lanka in May this year is India's moment of truth, as B.Raman puts it. Sri Lanka has triumphed over LTTE terrorists in spite of India, not because of it. Pakistan, along with China, has clearly played a key role as Sri Lanka's main arms supplier and trainer in ensuring LTTE's defeat, and India is clearly not happy with how the events played out leading to Sri Lanka's win. This new reality highlights the importance of Pakistan as a regional player in South Asia and upsets what India's national security adviser called New Delhi's "pre-eminent Position" in the region.
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What has happened in Sri Lanka in May this year is India's moment of truth, as B.Raman puts it. Sri Lanka has triumphed over LTTE terrorists in spite of India, not because of it. Pakistan, along with China, has clearly played a key role as Sri Lanka's main arms supplier and trainer in ensuring LTTE's defeat, and India is clearly not happy with how the events played out leading to Sri Lanka's win. This new reality highlights the importance of Pakistan as a regional player in South Asia and upsets what India's national security adviser called New Delhi's "pre-eminent Position" in the region.
Haq's Musings: Pakistani Arms Enabled Lanka Defeat of LTTE
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Fake news...
MRL was an aid. Give links to the red part..UAV? I think Pakistan has only started industrial production this year..
Thanks for your valuable input.. post somewhere else your blogs advertisement.
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Pakistan's crucial role in the death of Tamil Tigers
(Lanka-e-News 30.May.2009 5.30PM) It was the Pakistani defence cooperation with Sri Lanka as one of the largest suppliers of high-tech military equipment that has played a major role in the ultimate defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at the hands of the Lankan army.
The three decade long quest of the LTTE to carve out a separate state for Tamils, as well as the myth that the Tamil Tigers are militarily invincible, has effectively been laid to rest, along with its supremo, Velupillai Prabhakaran, and the entire LTTE top brass. According to well placed sources in the Pakistani establishment, defence cooperation between Sri Lanka and Pakistan had grown significantly in recent years as Islamabad, unlike New Delhi, had no problems supplying the Lankan army state-of-the-art weaponry to accelerate its counter-insurgency operations against the LTTE which has finally ended with the killing of the most wanted Tamil guerilla fighter Vellupillai Prabhakaran. The sources say it was exactly a year ago in the first week of May 2008 that Sri Lankan Army Chief Lt-Gen Fonseka came to Pakistan and held detailed talks with his Pakistani counterpart Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani to finalise the purchase of high tech arms for the Lankan armed forces, which were embroiled in an intense battle with the LTTE forces even at that time.
During his talks with Pakistani military authorities, Lt-Gen Fonseka had finalised a deal as per which Pakistan sold 22 Al-Khalid tanks to Sri Lanka in a deal worth over US$100 million. General Fonseka also gave a shopping list of weaponry worth about US$65 million to the Pakistani military authorities. While the Sri Lankan army chief's shopping list for the army was pegged at $25 million, the inventory for the Lankan Air Force was worth $40 million. He had further sought 250,000 rounds of 60mm, 81mm, 120mm and 130mm mortar ammunition worth US$ 25 million and 1, 50,000 hand grenades for immediate delivery to the Lankan army within a month. Pakistan also accepted the visiting General's request to send one shipload of the wherewithal every 10 days to bolster the Lankan military efforts to take over Kilinochchi, the headquarters of the LTTE.
On Jan 19, 2009, in a meeting between Pakistani Defence Secretary Lt-Gen (retd) Syed Athar Ali and his visiting Lankan counterpart Gotabhaya Rajapakse in Rawalpindi, the two countries had agreed to enhance cooperation in military training, exercises and intelligence sharing regarding terrorism. The agreement came amidst Sri Lankan media reports that the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) pilots had participated in several successful air strikes against several military bases of the LTTE in August 2008. These reports further claimed that a highly trained group of the Pakistani armed forces officers is stationed in Colombo to guide the Sri Lankan security forces in their counter-insurgency operations against the LTTE.
However, it was not the first time that the Pakistan army was helping Sri Lanka militarily in its prolonged fight against the LTTE guerrilla fighters. Back in 2000, when LTTE offensive code-named Operation Ceaseless Waves overran Sri Lankan military positions in the north and captured the Elephant Pass Base and entered Jaffna, and was being feared that LTTE would run down thousands of Sri Lankan troops stationed in Jaffna, the Sri Lankans had sought Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher System (MBRLS) and other high tech weaponry from Pakistan on urgent basis.
Subsequently, MBRLS and weapons and ammunition, including artillery shells and multi-barrel rocket launchers, were airlifted in an emergency operation from Karachi to Colombo in May 2000. Later, in 2006, the Sri Lankan authorities had again sought Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher System (MBRLS) and other advanced weapons from Pakistan when Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited Pakistan in March 2006 along with an 80-member delegation that included some high ranking military officials. During his talks with the Pakistani leaders, the Sri Lankan President had sought military help from Islamabad to effectively put an end to the LTTE separatist movement.
That the Lankan and the Pakistani armed forces had been working together in militarily stamping out the LTTE insurgency has already been confirmed by the Sri Lanka Army Spokesman, Brigadier Udaya Nanayakara, in a statement he had made on April 28, 2009, saying Pakistan and India had been training the Sri Lankan troops to deal with the LTTE forces. Separately but consistently, he said, the two countries had trained and equipped the Sri Lankan army to prepare and fight the LTTE. He said Lankan forces have been procuring the latest technology from both countries.
'We had been sending our military officers regularly to India and Pakistan for specialized training. I myself did four courses in India and three in Pakistan. We know they are rivals but we have nothing to do with that and we are benefited from both India and Pakistan,' said the Sri Lankan military spokesman, Brigadier Udaya Nanayakara.
By Amir Mir from 'The News Pakisthan'
www.lankaenews.com | Pakistan's crucial role in the death of Tamil Tigers
(Lanka-e-News 30.May.2009 5.30PM) It was the Pakistani defence cooperation with Sri Lanka as one of the largest suppliers of high-tech military equipment that has played a major role in the ultimate defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at the hands of the Lankan army.
The three decade long quest of the LTTE to carve out a separate state for Tamils, as well as the myth that the Tamil Tigers are militarily invincible, has effectively been laid to rest, along with its supremo, Velupillai Prabhakaran, and the entire LTTE top brass. According to well placed sources in the Pakistani establishment, defence cooperation between Sri Lanka and Pakistan had grown significantly in recent years as Islamabad, unlike New Delhi, had no problems supplying the Lankan army state-of-the-art weaponry to accelerate its counter-insurgency operations against the LTTE which has finally ended with the killing of the most wanted Tamil guerilla fighter Vellupillai Prabhakaran. The sources say it was exactly a year ago in the first week of May 2008 that Sri Lankan Army Chief Lt-Gen Fonseka came to Pakistan and held detailed talks with his Pakistani counterpart Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani to finalise the purchase of high tech arms for the Lankan armed forces, which were embroiled in an intense battle with the LTTE forces even at that time.
During his talks with Pakistani military authorities, Lt-Gen Fonseka had finalised a deal as per which Pakistan sold 22 Al-Khalid tanks to Sri Lanka in a deal worth over US$100 million. General Fonseka also gave a shopping list of weaponry worth about US$65 million to the Pakistani military authorities. While the Sri Lankan army chief's shopping list for the army was pegged at $25 million, the inventory for the Lankan Air Force was worth $40 million. He had further sought 250,000 rounds of 60mm, 81mm, 120mm and 130mm mortar ammunition worth US$ 25 million and 1, 50,000 hand grenades for immediate delivery to the Lankan army within a month. Pakistan also accepted the visiting General's request to send one shipload of the wherewithal every 10 days to bolster the Lankan military efforts to take over Kilinochchi, the headquarters of the LTTE.
On Jan 19, 2009, in a meeting between Pakistani Defence Secretary Lt-Gen (retd) Syed Athar Ali and his visiting Lankan counterpart Gotabhaya Rajapakse in Rawalpindi, the two countries had agreed to enhance cooperation in military training, exercises and intelligence sharing regarding terrorism. The agreement came amidst Sri Lankan media reports that the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) pilots had participated in several successful air strikes against several military bases of the LTTE in August 2008. These reports further claimed that a highly trained group of the Pakistani armed forces officers is stationed in Colombo to guide the Sri Lankan security forces in their counter-insurgency operations against the LTTE.
However, it was not the first time that the Pakistan army was helping Sri Lanka militarily in its prolonged fight against the LTTE guerrilla fighters. Back in 2000, when LTTE offensive code-named Operation Ceaseless Waves overran Sri Lankan military positions in the north and captured the Elephant Pass Base and entered Jaffna, and was being feared that LTTE would run down thousands of Sri Lankan troops stationed in Jaffna, the Sri Lankans had sought Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher System (MBRLS) and other high tech weaponry from Pakistan on urgent basis.
Subsequently, MBRLS and weapons and ammunition, including artillery shells and multi-barrel rocket launchers, were airlifted in an emergency operation from Karachi to Colombo in May 2000. Later, in 2006, the Sri Lankan authorities had again sought Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher System (MBRLS) and other advanced weapons from Pakistan when Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited Pakistan in March 2006 along with an 80-member delegation that included some high ranking military officials. During his talks with the Pakistani leaders, the Sri Lankan President had sought military help from Islamabad to effectively put an end to the LTTE separatist movement.
That the Lankan and the Pakistani armed forces had been working together in militarily stamping out the LTTE insurgency has already been confirmed by the Sri Lanka Army Spokesman, Brigadier Udaya Nanayakara, in a statement he had made on April 28, 2009, saying Pakistan and India had been training the Sri Lankan troops to deal with the LTTE forces. Separately but consistently, he said, the two countries had trained and equipped the Sri Lankan army to prepare and fight the LTTE. He said Lankan forces have been procuring the latest technology from both countries.
'We had been sending our military officers regularly to India and Pakistan for specialized training. I myself did four courses in India and three in Pakistan. We know they are rivals but we have nothing to do with that and we are benefited from both India and Pakistan,' said the Sri Lankan military spokesman, Brigadier Udaya Nanayakara.
By Amir Mir from 'The News Pakisthan'
www.lankaenews.com | Pakistan's crucial role in the death of Tamil Tigers
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The Hindu : International : Colombo cancels arms import from China, Pakistan
And about the AL-Khalid part, Its just a speculation please ask to Mr.fatman..
And about the AL-Khalid part, Its just a speculation please ask to Mr.fatman..
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Sri Lanka SECURITY:: Reports: Pak pilots carry out all 3,000 missions in eelam war
SLAF Air Chief Marshal Roshan Goonetilike Sunday denied Pakistani media reports that some of the missions against the LTTE had been carried out by Pakistan Air Force pilots.
`There is absolutely no truth in this claim,` Goonetilike told The Island Sunday. Responding to our queries, he said that during Eelam war IV the SLAF had conducted over 3,000 missions against some 1,900 targets in the northern and eastern theatres over the past three years.
He said that three jet squadrons comprising Kfirs, MiG 27s and F7s and the No 9 attack helicopter squadron of Mi 24s had played a critical role in the war. He said that Pakistan was one of the few countries which backed Sri Lanka s war against the LTTE. `There is no dispute over Islamabad s wholehearted backing but we never sought their pilots,` he said.
Foreign pilots had flown missions during previous phases of the Eelam war. At least one Russian pilot died in an LTTE missile attack directed at a Mi 24 helicopter gunship.
Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara told The Island that there was no truth in reports that Sri Lanka had acquired 22 Al Khalid main battle tanks built in Pakistan. He said that the army had acquired only Czechoslovakian built T-55 main battle tanks apart from Chinese and Russian armoured fighting vehicles and armoured personnel carriers.
According to Pakistan media reports, Al Khalid had played a critical role in the war against the LTTE.
A spokesman for the Armoured Corps told The Island that all they had acquired to fight the LTTE would be displayed on Wednesday (June 3) at a joint armed forces parade at Galle Face to mark the end of 30-year war. `I can assure you that there will be no Al Khalids,` he said.
Military sources said that Pakistan had even released a range of ammunition from its own stocks to Sri Lanka. A large group of Sri Lankan officers had also received training in Pakistan. The sources said that Sri Lanka had received MBRLs (multi barrel rocket launchers) from Pakistan during the year 2000 battle for Jaffna.
Sources dismissed reports that Pakistan armed forces officers had been involved in planning Sri Lanka s successful war against the LTTE.
India had radar operators on a permanent basis to run stations at Palavi, Vavuniya, China Bay and Katunayake, while Chinese personnel had periodically visited the radar station at Mirigama set up by China, sources said.
SLAF Air Chief Marshal Roshan Goonetilike Sunday denied Pakistani media reports that some of the missions against the LTTE had been carried out by Pakistan Air Force pilots.
`There is absolutely no truth in this claim,` Goonetilike told The Island Sunday. Responding to our queries, he said that during Eelam war IV the SLAF had conducted over 3,000 missions against some 1,900 targets in the northern and eastern theatres over the past three years.
He said that three jet squadrons comprising Kfirs, MiG 27s and F7s and the No 9 attack helicopter squadron of Mi 24s had played a critical role in the war. He said that Pakistan was one of the few countries which backed Sri Lanka s war against the LTTE. `There is no dispute over Islamabad s wholehearted backing but we never sought their pilots,` he said.
Foreign pilots had flown missions during previous phases of the Eelam war. At least one Russian pilot died in an LTTE missile attack directed at a Mi 24 helicopter gunship.
Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara told The Island that there was no truth in reports that Sri Lanka had acquired 22 Al Khalid main battle tanks built in Pakistan. He said that the army had acquired only Czechoslovakian built T-55 main battle tanks apart from Chinese and Russian armoured fighting vehicles and armoured personnel carriers.
According to Pakistan media reports, Al Khalid had played a critical role in the war against the LTTE.
A spokesman for the Armoured Corps told The Island that all they had acquired to fight the LTTE would be displayed on Wednesday (June 3) at a joint armed forces parade at Galle Face to mark the end of 30-year war. `I can assure you that there will be no Al Khalids,` he said.
Military sources said that Pakistan had even released a range of ammunition from its own stocks to Sri Lanka. A large group of Sri Lankan officers had also received training in Pakistan. The sources said that Sri Lanka had received MBRLs (multi barrel rocket launchers) from Pakistan during the year 2000 battle for Jaffna.
Sources dismissed reports that Pakistan armed forces officers had been involved in planning Sri Lanka s successful war against the LTTE.
India had radar operators on a permanent basis to run stations at Palavi, Vavuniya, China Bay and Katunayake, while Chinese personnel had periodically visited the radar station at Mirigama set up by China, sources said.
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Get a life.
India had been recieving international aid too. If you want should i start posting here.
Pls support claims.
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US slashes aid to India by 35%
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Washington, Jul 24: The US is set to cut aid to India by 35% in 2008 after the South Asian nation was categorised as a “transforming” country with one of the best-performing economies in the world, in a sweeping overhaul of the US foreign assistance programme.
India’s aid was slashed to $81 million after it was categorised as a “transforming” country instead of a “developing” one under a plan developed by Randall L Tobias, a corporate veteran chosen by secretary of state Condoleezza Rice to manage foreign assistance, the Washington Post said.
“India is now taking a different place on the global stage, in terms of diplomacy, politics and economy,” US state department spokesperson Sean McCormack was quoted as saying by The Post. “Aid programmes had not caught up with these evolving realities,” he added.
The Washington Post has pointed out that the bulk of the $23 billion in annual US foreign aid goes to a handful of key countries, leaving about 120 nations to battle over $3 billion of the pie. India is one of the big losers in Rice’s foreign aid revolution. All US aid to assist India in education, women’s rights, democracy and sanitation will be terminated under the new overhaul of the US foreign assistance programme.
One promising US-funded programme in India is Quest, a partnership with technology firms such as Microsoft and Lucent aimed at teaching critical skills in Indian classrooms. With Washington promising about $2 million a year, Quest expanded from 200 to 2,000 schools in just one year.
But without a continued US contribution, the initiative probably will not survive, Aakash Sethi, the programme’s executive director, told The Post in a telephone interview from Bangalore.
While defending the foreign assistance package for 2008, Tobias had labelled India a “transforming” country, in contrast with countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, which were labelled “developing” countries. Huge sums have been devoted to administration priorities areas such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pakistan and Afghanistan together will receive more than 85% of the $2.2 billion aid budget for 12 countries in South and Central Asia. Iraq’s aid was boosted five-fold for 2008. Tobias had previously overhauled US assistance to combat AIDS worldwide, and Rice wanted him to bring the same sensibility to remaking the full aid budget.
Under Tobias’s plan, foreign aid should meet corporate standards for measuring inputs, outputs and efficiency.
US slashes aid to India by 35%
India's strong democratic traditions and financial stability are forces of equilibrium in a volatile region. However, economic development in India is uneven and varies by region and social factors. India's consolidated fiscal deficit (national, state, and public sector undertakings), at 10% of gross domestic product, is one of the highest among large countries. Inadequate infrastructure and public sector ownership of most core infrastructure are principal constraints to more rapid economic growth and poverty reduction. Following the formation of the new Congress Party-led government in May 2004, India began an historic political transition. The new government has pledged to focus heavily on economic reform and development.
Low human capacity levels and poor health are central to India's development challenges. More than 300 million Indians live in abject poverty -- more than all the poor in Africa and Latin America combined -- resulting in India having the world's largest concentration of desperately poor people. A child is born every two seconds in India. At the current population growth rate, India will overtake China as the world's most populous country by 2050. India has over 5.1 million people infected by HIV, second only to South Africa. More than half of the country's children are malnourished. Thirty percent of the world's births occur in India, resulting in 20% of the world's maternal deaths and 20% of the world's child deaths. Forty-two of every 1,000 girl children (compared to 29 boy children) die before reaching the age of five. More than two million Indian children die every year from preventable or curable diseases. India accounts for one-third of the global burden of tuberculosis, which kills over 1,000 people a day. India is one of the world's last countries where concentrations of polio still remain.
Fewer than half of Indian women are literate. Despite extensive constitutional and statutory safeguards, large sections of the Indian polity remain disadvantaged in their quest for equitable treatment under the judicial system. Human rights abuses are often generated by intense social tensions that disproportionately touch women, the poor, religious minorities, and other disadvantaged groups. Discrimination against women remains entrenched in India. Deep-rooted cultural beliefs and traditional practices deprive women of education, health care, and nutrition. Violence against women is widespread, and includes girl child feticide/infanticide, child abuse, and rapes. India is a significant source and transit country for trafficked women and children. Victims of trafficking in India include economically vulnerable women and children from impoverished households in rural areas and urban slums, separated or widowed women, ethnic minorities, refugees and illegal migrants, and children from disrupted families.
Compounding these serious problems in health and education is India's lack of financial viability in the power sector. Only one-third of households have electricity, and Indians have access to 30 times less water than individuals in the United States. Significant power shortages plague the country due to unsustainable subsidization policies, a lack of cost-recovery by utilities, and the subsequent inability of utilities to provide reliable, high quality power. Widespread financial insolvency of the utilities, and the state governments that are forced to bail them out, significantly contribute to increasing levels of state fiscal deficits. The current losses in the Indian power sector amount to more than $7 billion per year and the figure is growing at 15% to 20% every year.
India is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. The Orissa cyclone (1999) and the Gujarat earthquake (2001) killed more than 22,000 people and damaged more than three million houses. About 70% of crop land is vulnerable to drought and about 55% of land area is prone to earthquakes. An estimated 40 million hectares of land (nearly the size of California) are susceptible to floods. Weather-related events cause the bulk of destruction and loss to life in India. The December 2004 Asian Tsunami underlines the importance of ongoing investments in disaster management.
The USAID program directly addresses the challenges described above and advances four U.S. national interests: (1) economic prosperity achieved through opening markets; (2) global issues of population growth, infectious diseases, and climate change; (3) development and democracy concerns of alleviating poverty, reducing malnutrition, and improving the status of women; and (4) humanitarian response by saving lives and reducing suffering associated with disasters.
The USAID Program: USAID is requesting FY 2005 and FY 2006 funds for five objectives that concentrate on: (1) Economic Growth - targeting increased transparency and efficiency in the mobilization and allocation of resources; (2) Health - targeting improved overall health with a greater integration of food assistance, and reduced fertility; (3) Disaster Management Support - targeting reduced vulnerability to disasters for marginalized people; (4) Environmental Protection - targeting improved access to clean energy and water; the reduction of public subsidies through improved cost recovery; and promoting more efficient technology and management; and (5) Education/Equity - targeting improved access to elementary education, justice, and other social and economic services for vulnerable groups, especially women and children.
Other Program Elements: In addition to USAID/India's bilateral programs, USAID's South Asia Regional Initiative/Energy (SARI/Energy) program promotes regional peace and prosperity by encouraging cooperation in energy development and eventual trade among South Asian countries. The SARI/Equity program promotes collaborative regional efforts to address inequity as it affects women and children. It funds efforts to combat cross border human trafficking and abusive child labor practices and to improve women's microfinance services. The regional United States-Asia Environmental Partnership promotes the adoption of clean and efficient technologies, policies, and practices to support the positive relationship between economic growth and environmental protection in India. USAID also manages a project promoting community management of forests which have been continuously degraded due to industrial logging pressure, agricultural expansion, mining operations, and a lack of financial, technical, and political support.
The Bureau for Global Health funds an activity in India to reduce fertility through voluntary practices. USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance has activities in India to promote child survival, reduce the spread of HIV, treat victims of torture and violence, help electric cooperatives meet growing service needs, train disaster responders, increase food quality and quantity, and demonstrate U.S. educational and medical technologies and practices. The Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade works with the Government of Japan to implement the U.S.-Japan Clean Water for People Initiative in four pilot countries - India is one of them.
Other Donors: The United States is the fifth largest bilateral donor to India, after Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the European Union. USAID collaborates with other donors on economic growth, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, disaster preparedness and management, air pollution control, urban environmental infrastructure, water, children's basic education, and women's empowerment.
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US slashes aid to India by 35%
Press Trust of India
Posted: Wednesday, Jul 25, 2007 at 0000 hrs IST
Updated: Wednesday, Jul 25, 2007 at 1209 hrs IST
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Washington, Jul 24: The US is set to cut aid to India by 35% in 2008 after the South Asian nation was categorised as a “transforming” country with one of the best-performing economies in the world, in a sweeping overhaul of the US foreign assistance programme.
India’s aid was slashed to $81 million after it was categorised as a “transforming” country instead of a “developing” one under a plan developed by Randall L Tobias, a corporate veteran chosen by secretary of state Condoleezza Rice to manage foreign assistance, the Washington Post said.
“India is now taking a different place on the global stage, in terms of diplomacy, politics and economy,” US state department spokesperson Sean McCormack was quoted as saying by The Post. “Aid programmes had not caught up with these evolving realities,” he added.
The Washington Post has pointed out that the bulk of the $23 billion in annual US foreign aid goes to a handful of key countries, leaving about 120 nations to battle over $3 billion of the pie. India is one of the big losers in Rice’s foreign aid revolution. All US aid to assist India in education, women’s rights, democracy and sanitation will be terminated under the new overhaul of the US foreign assistance programme.
One promising US-funded programme in India is Quest, a partnership with technology firms such as Microsoft and Lucent aimed at teaching critical skills in Indian classrooms. With Washington promising about $2 million a year, Quest expanded from 200 to 2,000 schools in just one year.
But without a continued US contribution, the initiative probably will not survive, Aakash Sethi, the programme’s executive director, told The Post in a telephone interview from Bangalore.
While defending the foreign assistance package for 2008, Tobias had labelled India a “transforming” country, in contrast with countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, which were labelled “developing” countries. Huge sums have been devoted to administration priorities areas such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Pakistan and Afghanistan together will receive more than 85% of the $2.2 billion aid budget for 12 countries in South and Central Asia. Iraq’s aid was boosted five-fold for 2008. Tobias had previously overhauled US assistance to combat AIDS worldwide, and Rice wanted him to bring the same sensibility to remaking the full aid budget.
Under Tobias’s plan, foreign aid should meet corporate standards for measuring inputs, outputs and efficiency.
US slashes aid to India by 35%
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Foreign Aid and India:Financing the Leviathan State
by Shyam J. Kamath
Shyam J. Kamath is an associate professor of economics in the School of Business and Economics, California State University at Hayward.
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Executive Summary
With a debate now raging over whether further foreign aid programs financed by U.S. taxpayers are justified in the post-Cold War era, a review of the development experience of the recipient of the largest amount of foreign aid is instructive. India has received more foreign aid than any other developing nation since the end of World War II--estimated at almost $55 billion since the beginning of its First Five-Year Plan in 1951.(1) It has long been an article of faith among development economists and policymakers that foreign aid is a necessary and central component of economic development, yet the record of Indian economic development since 1947 belies that view.
India has had one of the lowest rates of growth of all developing countries and remains one of the poorest countries in the world after almost 45 years of aid-financed, centrally planned development. Foreign aid has directly financed and sustained India's centralized planning and control framework and thereby financed the growth of one of the noncommunist world's largest and most inefficient public sectors. In 1988-89, 101 of the country's 222 largest public-sector companies recorded losses and contributed to a federal deficit five times as large, in relative terms, as the U.S. budget deficit.(2)
Today, after nearly 45 years of planned economic development, India's annual per capita income remains around $300. Almost 40 percent of Indians live below the official poverty line, and the absolute number of Indians in that category increased sharply between the late 1950s and the mid-1980s. In short, India is a paradigmatic case of the failure of government-sponsored aid; it stands as a dramatic testimonial to why such aid should go the way of the socialist development model it has bankrolled for decades.
Foreign Aid and India: Financing the Leviathan State
by Shyam J. Kamath
Shyam J. Kamath is an associate professor of economics in the School of Business and Economics, California State University at Hayward.
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Executive Summary
With a debate now raging over whether further foreign aid programs financed by U.S. taxpayers are justified in the post-Cold War era, a review of the development experience of the recipient of the largest amount of foreign aid is instructive. India has received more foreign aid than any other developing nation since the end of World War II--estimated at almost $55 billion since the beginning of its First Five-Year Plan in 1951.(1) It has long been an article of faith among development economists and policymakers that foreign aid is a necessary and central component of economic development, yet the record of Indian economic development since 1947 belies that view.
India has had one of the lowest rates of growth of all developing countries and remains one of the poorest countries in the world after almost 45 years of aid-financed, centrally planned development. Foreign aid has directly financed and sustained India's centralized planning and control framework and thereby financed the growth of one of the noncommunist world's largest and most inefficient public sectors. In 1988-89, 101 of the country's 222 largest public-sector companies recorded losses and contributed to a federal deficit five times as large, in relative terms, as the U.S. budget deficit.(2)
Today, after nearly 45 years of planned economic development, India's annual per capita income remains around $300. Almost 40 percent of Indians live below the official poverty line, and the absolute number of Indians in that category increased sharply between the late 1950s and the mid-1980s. In short, India is a paradigmatic case of the failure of government-sponsored aid; it stands as a dramatic testimonial to why such aid should go the way of the socialist development model it has bankrolled for decades.
Foreign Aid and India: Financing the Leviathan State
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OK Ok what I meant was India has trying to be self-reliant as far as possible, can be observed during Tsunami and other natural disasters. the absolute amount of foreign aid to India has been high. In per capital terms, however, it has been much less than most other developing countries receive.
There is no military Aid. Hence asked for sources to see the context.
There is no military Aid. Hence asked for sources to see the context.
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