1.   Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada announced that Canadian development aid would be tied to progress on democratization and respect for human rights.

2.   As much as developing nations may need debt relief and development aid, a prerequisite for long-term growth is full participation with the global economy and trading system.

3.   At the gateway to the conference center, Denmark has mounted an exhibition on development aid.

4.   A number of intermediate measures have since been suggested, including trade embargoes, targeted development aid and a crisis-response force.

5.   Bush said most development aid to poor countries comes from foreign investment rather than direct loans or grants from rich countries.

6.   Bush, as he has before, linked development aid to the fight against terrorism and also cast it in terms of religious and moral obligations.

7.   But he said he did so reluctantly, pushing for more economic development aid, and he insisted that he never pressed the officials to buy Blackhawks.

8.   But not unlike other high-profile trade votes, this one also involves a host of issues that are purely local, like job retraining and development aid.

9.   By the same token, it is hard to exaggerate the failure of four decades of development aid.

10.   Commitments for long-term development aid are needed so that the countries of the great lakes region of Africa can be self sufficient again and become net exporters of food.