11. Even in struggling but newly hopeful Africa, leaders are urging aid donors to prod investors and provide advice on how to fire up the private sector. 12. Instead it thinks aid donors should continue lending to these countries at concessional rates. 13. Japan, a major aid donor, has already cut off its assistance. 14. Japan was the largest aid donor to Burma before the full-scale democracy movement got underway. 15. Past pressure from aid donors has yielded salutary results. 16. Right now, the World Bank is in a consortium of international aid donors whose aim is to do just this. 17. The Clinton administration and European aid donors enthusiastically promoted the entwining of the two economies, bankrolling joint industrial projects and investment schemes. 18. The U.S. government is encouraging such growth by redirecting its Africa focus from aid donor to trade and investment partner. 19. Plavsic said there were no obstacles to the Serbs taking part in a conference of aid donors to Bosnia later this week. 20. Pressed by aid donors, authorities have taken action against corruption and crime. |