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145. Report of the President’s General Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance Programs

ultilateralism is closer coordination of all assistance to individual countries through various forms of consultative groups of aid-supplying countries. There are now eighteen such groups—in India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Turkey, Greece, Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria, Ghana, Sudan, East Africa, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Korea. They cover close to half of worldwide development assistance. Some are still weak. But where the staffs of multilateral institutions have provided leadership, supported by the U.S., such groups have permitted reasonably objective negotiation of th…