Traducción de «Ayuda extranjera » (Español → Inglés) :

Notes that, despite the huge injections of foreign aid, the situation in Afghanistan continues to be discouraging, preventing humanitarian and medical aid from reaching the most vulnerable sections of the population, that more Afghans are dying through poverty than as a direct result of the armed conflict, and that, shockingly, infant mortality has risen since 2002, while life expectancy at birth and levels of literacy have declined markedly, and that since 2004 the number of people living below the poverty threshold has increased by 130 %;

Economic growth was driven by the continued expansion of credit and by increased foreign assistance.

Accordingly, the Commission concludes that the beneficiaries of the contested measure had a legitimate expectation that the aid would not be recovered and hence it is not requiring recovery of the fiscal aid granted to those beneficiaries in the context of any shareholdings held by a Spanish acquiring company, directly or indirectly in a foreign company before the date of publication (121) in the Official Journal of the European Union of the Commission Decision to initiate the formal investigation procedure under Article 88(2) of the Treaty, which could have then benefited from the measure at issue.

However, given the presence of legitimate expectations until the publication date of the initiating Decision, the Commission exceptionally waives recovery for any tax benefits deriving from the application of the aid scheme for aid linked to shareholdings held directly or indirectly by a Spanish acquiring company in a foreign company before the date of publication in the Official Journal of the European Union of the Commission Decision to initiate the formal investigation procedure under Article 88(2), except where, firstly, before 21 December 2007 an irrevocable obligation has been entered into by a Spanish acquiring company to hold suc ...[+++]h rights; secondly, the contract contained a suspensive condition linked to the fact that the operation at stake is subject to the mandatory approval of a regulatory authority and, thirdly, the operation had been notified before 21 December 2007.

- Third, Russia and several other EECCA countries such as Kazakhstan have experienced rapid economic growth since the late 1990s and are far less reliant on foreign aid for environmental investment and capacity building.

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