Philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates this week unveiled his favourite image, as he launched the "Living Proof" campaign to bolster support for development aid to poor nations.
Official development aid for health more than tripled.
This, they argue, has been the key to economic development in countries that have grown fast, but it is only rarely the principal focus of development aid.
Well, now there are sensible, mature arguments to be had about debt relief, and a grown-up debate to be had about the effectiveness of overseas development aid more broadly. Not inside this hall.
When Hamas won power at the ballot box in 2006, Palestine's foreign paymasters cancelled all development aid, limiting help to humanitarian supplies.
However Wolfowitz also cautions giving more development aid to Africa is not the only answer.
Overall, Japan's overseas development aid had shrunk 38 per cent in six years.
I see WHO catalyzing more effective development aid that builds the capacities for countries to move towards self-reliance.
We will be friends for the long term with our expertise, with our economic cooperation and development aid and it is of course important to plan ahead for those things now.
Congress happily pays for weapons but despises weaselly diplomats and woolly development aid, yet they are vital to ensuring that arms stay sheathed.
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