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  2. Aid - Wikipedia

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    Aid effectiveness is the degree of success or failure of international aid (development aid or humanitarian aid). Concern with aid effectiveness might be at a high level of generality (whether aid on average fulfils the main functions that aid is supposed to have), or it might be more detailed (considering relative degrees of success between ...

  3. Aid (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Development aid, financial aid to support the development of developing countries; Humanitarian aid, material and logistic assistance to people who need help; Welfare spending, social aid to poor people; First aid, assistance given to a person suffering a sudden illness or injury; Charity (practice), voluntary giving of aid and to those in need

  4. List of generic and genericized trademarks - Wikipedia

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    Widely used as a noun and verb. [112] De facto loss of trademark in the UK. [127] Hula hoop: Toy hoop Wham-O [128] Indomie: Instant noodle: Indofood: Common in Indonesia and Nigeria as a genericized mark for any instant noodle. Jacuzzi: Hot tub or whirlpool bath Jacuzzi [129] Jandals: Flip-flops: ACTSTA

  5. Official development assistance - Wikipedia

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    This definition is used to exclude development aid from the two other categories of aid from DAC members: Official Aid (OA): Flows which meet conditions of eligibility for inclusion in Official Development Assistance (ODA), other than the fact that the recipients are on Part II of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) List of Aid Recipients.

  6. First responder - Wikipedia

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    This section possibly contains original research.It lacks a citation in support of the proposition that this was the etymology. These citations only show examples of usage, but don't seem to describe the origin of the term as claimed.

  7. Humanitarian assistance - Wikipedia

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    Humanitarian assistance is aid and action designed to save lives, alleviate suffering, and maintain human dignity during and after man-made crises and disasters. [1] It encompasses a wide range of activities, including providing food, water, shelter, medical care, and protection.

  8. Humanitarian aid - Wikipedia

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    International aid organizations identify theft by armed forces on the ground as a primary unintended consequence through which food aid and other types of humanitarian aid promote conflict. Food aid usually has to be transported across large geographic territories and during the transportation it becomes a target for armed forces, especially in ...

  9. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    noun pl. of axe: bases / ˈ b eɪ s ɪ z / noun plural of base / ˈ b eɪ s iː z / noun plural of basis: bass / ˈ b eɪ s / noun low in pitch / ˈ b æ s / noun a fish blessed / ˈ b l ɛ s ɪ d / adjective having divine aid / ˈ b l ɛ s t / verb past tense of bless: bow / ˈ b oʊ / noun a stringed weapon, or the initiator of sound in some ...