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[Thai Economics Library | Archives (for history)]
September 26, 2008

Relief

relief (noun) - the removal of anxiety, pain; helping people in need

debt relief - helping people who borrowed money but cannot pay it back

troubled asset relief

a relief package
a relief programme
a limited relief programme
a relief agency
a relief organisation
relief funds

debt relief
a debt relief programme
a debt relief package

the issue of debt relief
the amount of debtr relief
any hard-headed financier, and he will tell you that debt relief never works
take decisive action on debt relief
promised debt relief
discuss debt relief
apply for debt relief
qualify for debt relief
eligibility for debt relief
eligibility for more favourable debt relief
provide large-scale debt relief

creditors will in practice need to get most of the benefit from debt relief
apply for bad debt relief
the Baker plan for debt relief
the Brady plan for debt relief

temporary relief
temporary relief from the pain

welcome relief

provide relief
a relief effort
a relief operation
relief work

traffic relief
a relief scheme
a flood relief scheme

humanitarian relief
famine relief
relief aid
relief supplies
opened relief funds which often attracted large subscriptions

emergency relief

a sigh of relief
tears of relief
a sense of relief

about 2,000 people benefited from the relief programme
the big but war-disrupted relief programme
established a US$6,000,000 six-month emergency relief programme
announced an interim relief programme for victims of the poison gas disaster
replenished disaster relief funds


Example sentences:

* Troubled Asset Relief Program

* Ask any hard-headed financier, and he will tell you that debt relief never works: public money given to help struggling debtor nations will end up in the hands of the lenders, the banks whose over-readiness to lend helped to land the debtors in trouble in the first place.

* This is partly because the G7 had other matters on its agenda, such as how to share out the burden of paying for the Gulf war and the issue of debt relief for Egypt and Poland.

* So the Brady plan for debt relief, since 1989 America's main way of cutting the commercial-debt burdens of poor countries, was widely expected to fail.

* Economists have taken it for granted that to get round it, creditors will in practice need to get most of the benefit from debt relief.

* Because in reaching its decision it takes account not only of the technical merits in terms of traffic relief but also, the wider impact er the other factors in terms of the route and also public opinion.

* The flood relief scheme was co-ordinated by Cherwell District Council.

* In times of special crisis at home and abroad such as severe unemployment in East London, or famine in India, the Lord Mayor of London, and mayors of other towns, opened relief funds which often attracted large subscriptions.

* In its final form the aid package replenished disaster relief funds depleted by both the disturbances in Los Angeles and by recent severe flooding in Chicago.

* It seems to have been enough, as was the amount delivered by the big but war-disrupted relief programme that followed the 1987 drought.

* All told, about 2,000 people benefited from the relief programme.

* On March 5 M. S. Gurupadasamy, the Minister of Petroleum and Chemicals, announced an interim relief programme for victims of the 1984 Bhopal poison gas disaster .

* On Dec. 11 the UN High Commissioner for Refugees established a US$6,000,000 six-month emergency relief programme.

* By comparison, only $65 million in debt cancellation has been granted to developing country borrowers under the British government's" Trinidad terms", its main debt relief programme.

* Britain has been taking part in a limited relief programme using a Hercules from RAF Lyneham to fly supplies from Zagreb to Sarajevo, Bosnia's capital.

* Mr Anderson told the tribunal he could not apply for bad debt relief until 12 months after the debt had arisen while Customs had penalised him for paying the VAT `;a mere 16 days late.';

* We are urging the international community to take decisive action on debt relief, the liberalisation of world trade and support for good government.

* Earlier this year he led the ICM's campaign for a change in the VAT bad debt relief rules.


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