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Helping poor nations

The US president’s plan to add $5billion to the foreign aid budget shows that his administration is rethinking the importance of helping underdeveloped countries. Obviously, that is a good thing – not only because the money may ease the hopelessness that breeds terrorism. Foreign aid, well spent, will also liberate entrepreneurial energies, protect human rights and help millions achieve better lives.

The president’s vision, however, is larger than his financial commitments. He wants to spend the extra $5 billion over three years. Shamefully, America, once this world’s most generous aid giver, now gives less, relative to the size of its economy, than any other developed country, and much of what it does provide goes to military rather than humanitarian purposes. Many Americans have supported the retreat from foreign aid under the assumption that the money is wasted anyway. The president’s plan would use economic development funds as a reward for countries that agree to combat corruption, strengthen the rule of law, respect human rights and maintain open markets.

And after a decade in which foreign assistance spending remained virtually flat, this proposal marls a significant advance. A three-year rise of $5billion can do much good fighting AIDS and other infectious diseases, ridding of malnutrition, spreading computer literacy and helping Third World business to market their goods in the developed world.

Washington’s leadership cannot be reduced to a show of military might. This proposal could help lead America back towards its traditional role as a generous partner in spreading economic development.

Task12:

Give English equivalents of the following words and phrases

Компьютерная грамотность; зря тратить деньги: предпринимательская активность; развитая страна; страна с низким уровнем развития экономики; права человека; бороться с коррупцией; обязательства; иностранная помощь; СПИД; плохое питание; верховенство закона.

Task 13:

Answer the following questions.

1) What fact shows that US administration is rethinking the importance of helping poor countries?

2) What can money ease and what results can it bring if spent well?

3) Does the USA spend as much money on foreign aid as other developed countries?

4) Where does most of the American money go?

5) Why did many Americans support the retreat from foreign aid?

6) What countries will be rewarded from the economic development funds according to the president’s plan?

7) What can this $5 billion aid bring to the underdeveloped countries?

Task 14:

Questions for discussion.

1) Why do you think the US administration began rethinking the importance of helping poor nation?

2) Do you think developed countries should help underdeveloped ones? What kind of help should it be? What amount is appropriate to your mind?

3) Why do you think American aid goes mostly to military purposes but not humanitarian ones?

4) Why do you think Americans consider that foreign aid is wasted in the underdeveloped countries? Do you agree?

5) Do you agree with the author that the US leadership cannot be reduced to showing military might?

6) Do you agree that the US has traditionally been a generous partner in spreading economic development? Give reasons.

Task 15:

Civil and political rights, including the questions of freedom of expression.

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