61.   She will meet with President Benjamin Mkapa and government ministers to discuss plans for development assistance over the next three years.

62.   Singapore also is the fourth-largest importer of Philippine products and is an important source of development assistance.

63.   South Korea also said that it will continue to increase its official development assistance to Asean in various forms, and to share its development experience and technology.

64.   Sir Neville Nicholls in a recent interview said Caribbean islands have learned how to use their development assistance effectively.

65.   Sweden is now offering a larger development cooperation assistance, which has, in some ways, been concentrated on the forestry sector.

66.   Taiwan has promised in return to provide development assistance to Paraguay and encourage its businesses to invest there.

67.   That would mean cutting back trade preferences and reducing development assistance, said Cook, whose country now holds the EU presidency.

68.   The debt overhang is also undermining efforts to attract foreign investment at a time when bilateral and multilateral development assistance to Africa is declining or stagnating, they said.

69.   The junta is seeking to crush the Karen for refusing to join a dozen other ethnic minorities in signing cease-fire agreements with Rangoon in return for development assistance.

70.   The money will come from private corporate and individual donations as well as official development assistance.