rinse aid English

Meaning rinse aid meaning

What does rinse aid mean?

rinse aid noun

— cleaning product said to improve finish of items in dishwashers

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The current aid structures are inadequate.

The donors promised to double aid to Africa by 2010, but are still far off track.

Indeed, during the past 20 years, they actually cut aid for agriculture programs, and only now are reversing course.

In some of the poorest countries in the world - ie, those most dependent on aid - the IMF has argued that foreign aid should not be listed as revenue in a government's budget calculations.

But what else is aid if it is not revenue?

The IMF's argument seems to be this: a country cannot rely on foreign aid because aid is too unstable.

The truth, of course, is that aid is more stable than tax revenues in poor countries.

By the IMF's logic, neither aid nor tax revenues should be included in budgets.

The absurdity here is the idea that all foreign aid should be added to reserves.

If compensation for wrongs to the Palestinians was to be the guiding principle, there were always better ways of going about it than to found a rickety, poverty-ridden new country dependent on foreign aid.

This would make government services more effective, while helping to catalyze additional development aid from traditional donors and mobilize private-sector resources.

Donors should structure aid to ensure that it supports sound national development policies and programs, rather than their own narrow interests.

Not surprisingly, many UN agencies and aid agencies in rich countries fight this approach.

Obama, Rudd, Zapatero, and other forward-thinking leaders can therefore make a huge difference by following up on their pledges at the G-8 and insisting that the aid really works.