Therefore, borrowing money is seen as a reasonable course of action in the hope that making an investment will produce enough money to pay off debts and to generate economic growth that is self-staining. ... Foreign aid is increasingly a catalyst for change, and is helping to create conditions in which poor people are able to raise their incomes and to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. ... In addition, successful projects that draw on foreign assistance in their early stages may later become self-sustaining and serve as models for replication else...

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Last year, however, that currency crash triggered a crisis in other East Asian countries that has dominated news coverage in a way that no other foreign financial crisis has ever done before in this country. ... But whatever its source, the extent of this investment means that economic turmoil in East Asia has a direct financial impact on the developed world's capital markets, including our own. ...

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