1.   More broadly, we call upon industrial countries to raise their official development assistance towards internationally agreed levels.

2.   The austerity measures affected primarily spending on health, social welfare, defence and overseas development assistance.

3.   Barrhead Sanitaryware plc, the phoenix company created when Armitage Shanks closed their operation in Barrhead, has located in Glasgow and is receiving business development assistance from GDA.

4.   As long as Arafat continues on this promising course, he deserves the economic development assistance that he has been promised.

5.   Because of its tourism and diamond industries, Botswana is so prosperous that it receives no American development assistance.

6.   Critics complain that IMF managing director Michel Camdessus is leading the fund into the kind of development assistance and political kibitzing that never was its role before.

7.   European and Arab countries can assist by delivering the development assistance they promised, as Clinton now requests.

8.   European nations say they will also boost development assistance markedly.

9.   Four years ago, donors suspended development assistance to Kenya because of its human rights abuses, economic waste and corruption.