JAPAN
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Aid Budget Is Restrained: Japan, the world’s largest aid donor, plans to boost its official development assistance by only 4.8% in the 1994-95 fiscal year, Japanese Foreign Minister Tsutomu Hata said. It is the smallest increase ever in the aid budget, but Japan will still distribute $10 billion in assistance in the fiscal year starting April 1.
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