In Antananarivo, capital of Madagascar, authorities are making plans to spend $3.8 million on a new fleet of garbage trucks, a purchase long deemed too expensive to contemplate. Pakistan will be spending $3 million to help finance an experimental farm in Baluchistan province. In Bolivia the government has received $11.3 million to spend on a vegetable-seed production project.
The source of the windfalls: Japan. Long criticized for its tightfistedness toward the world's poorer countries, Japan is now second only to the U.S. in handing out development assistance, and it is closing fast. According to the latest figures of the Organization for...
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