Funding and independence --- Thanks for starting this thread Thierry and thanks to John, Ivy, Marwa and Maria for their comments. You remind me that I went to a conference in about 2006 organised by the EU to talk about EU assistance to countries hit hard by the South East Asian tsunami. One of the issues they were all reluctant to discuss was the hard fact that money provided by private donors was greater than funds given by some governments. It was interesting to see governments having to consider that independence might actually rule some of the directions of debate. It didn't last long though.

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