This article talks about the importance of foreign aids given out by the US. The author of the article mentions that, the US should be smarter about the aid they send overseas. The type of aid that is mainly discussed in the article is humanitarian. It also features Bill Gates' ideas about foreign aid. Bill Gates uses statistics to explain how important it is to send foreign aids to developing countries.

This article talks about how the reforms carried out in some Arab countries, have caused the rise in Foreign Direct Investment in those regions. FDI equaled $438.5 billion during 2005-2010, while it was only $67.2 billion during 1999-2004. However, the share of Arab region from global FDI is still low. It only equals 5%. This means that there is still a need of investments in those Arabian countries.