Outdoor relief, as the alternative was known, was expanded as the most cost effective way to address the poverty problem.

The cost of fully covering IMF debt stock relief, without undermining the Fund's financing capacity, should be met by the use of existing IMF resources.

Relief

Prime Minister Vladimir Gurgenidze estimates that rebuilding railroads, bridges, ports and other infrastructure will cost at least 1 billion this does not include humanitarian relief, refugee resettlement costs, or rebuilding Georgia s military.

The request was made under a federal law passed in December 2003 allowing the President the option of granting debt relief to offset the cost of providing Government services to regional immigrants.

Emergency relief

Debt relief

Islamic Relief

Disaster Relief

Relief organizations operating in those areas complain incessantly about the extreme difficulty of accessing remote areas and the high cost of maintaining the vehicles that ply those routes, not to mention the frequent accidents.

That's a relief.

What a relief!

(a) Relief Services

(ii) Community relief

6. Urges the international community to give assistance for the rehabilitation of transportation means and infrastructure vital for the provision of relief supplies in the Sudan and their cost effectiveness, and in that context stresses the importance of continued cooperation by all the parties involved so as to facilitate and improve the delivery of relief supplies

Moreover, as Elie Hassenfeld has argued on GiveWell.net, there are good grounds for thinking that disaster relief is less cost effective than aid aimed at saving the lives of those who are risk from extreme poverty.

The increased competence and capacity of developing countries and the cost effectiveness of regionally owned initiatives have had a broad effect on United Nations operational activities for development, for humanitarian relief and for peace and security.

Transition from relief to development

How Effective is Disaster Relief?

Greece needs more debt relief.

Humanitarian and Disaster Relief Assistance

Debt sustainability and debt relief

Relief and social services programme

Palestinian Medical Relief Society, Gaza

Palestinian Medical Relief Society, Ramallah

Transition from relief to development

Providing economic incentives to farmers and industries, for example in the form of low interest credit, tax relief and subsidies, could encourage investments in water conservation, low cost waste water treatment, soil conservation and other land management practices.

Cost

The Threat of Greek Debt Relief

D. Transition from relief to development

The False Promise of Debt Relief

When Prevention is Better than Relief

I breathed a sigh of relief.

After every difficulty there is relief .

After every difficulty there is relief .

Need for broader external debt relief

Subprogramme 3 Relief and social services

International Buddhist Relief Organization (2000 2003)

Payment or relief to others None of the claims in this instalment seek compensation for payment or relief to others.

2005 18 UNDP strategic cost management and implications for cost recovery

Cost estimate

Total cost

Cost effectiveness

Some 13,000 international and national relief workers have been providing relief to more than 3 million people in Darfur and Chad.

Refuge in Dadaab Lutheran World Relief