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assistance per capita in comparison to South East Asia (hence the "ICARA" meeting of April 1981 which
1981 which focussed attention
on refugees in Africa). The fact is that disparities in the level of assistance even as between different areas within the same region (sometimes affecting the same refugee group which happens to have obtained asylum in more than one country) have
been detected.
Moreover, at least one country of origin has remarked on the dichotomy of massive international aid adminis- tered on one side of a national frontier while practically none is given on the other.
Thus there are certain imbalances in
current approaches.
ΤΟ ensure that humanitarian assistance programmes in themselves do not constitute a "pull factor", simultaneity in approach ought to be assured, and be seen
to be assured.
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97. As it has been established that mass exodus occurs fre-
quently from countries labouring under severe economic con- straints, foreign aid practices should be more meaningfully influenced than they appear to be at present by humanitarian considerations, and administered in terms of how they could best alleviate conditions causing mass flight.
When mass
movement does occur, it creates demands and pressures on the same governments for humanitarian aid or for the liberalization of immigration criteria. At the moment, there seems to be little linkage in most government administrations between those responsible for administering development aid and those re- sponding to humanitarian needs. Yet on the basis that preven-
tion is
is better than cure, if development aid were apportioned such that it would contribute to stability in countries and regions where a potential for mass exodus can be identified, this would both contribute to a lessening of human suffering and would lead to economies in the very substantial sums required
for relief in countries of first asylum. It should be viewed as
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