Delayed aid: Sri Lanka's tsunami reconstruction work has been delayed by three months due to non-payment of foreign aid. The government announced on February 7, 2005 that donors had finally approved the payment US $1.5 billion aid for and "its from now the construction phase begins'. But this happened only after it went public with the complaint that the reconstruction was getting delayed because the foreign aid pledged by donors wasn't materialising. This was contrary to the general impression that aid wasn't a problem for the country (see Down To Earth, [2]
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/south-asia-49
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/full6.asp%3Ffoldername%3D20050215%26amp%3Bfilename%3Dnews%26amp%3Bsec_id%3D4%26amp%3Bsid%3D46
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/down-earth
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pollution
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tsunami
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/skin-diseases
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/aid-agencies
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pakistan
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sri-lanka
