International efforts to distribute food to the neediest countries are often coordinated by the World Food Programme.

Did anybody stop to wonder if this plan would put public-health workers in the world's neediest countries at increased risk?

Into this whirlwind comes President Clinton, suggesting grand needs for an increasingly needy country.

Instead, money is now used to put infra structure into place so that needy countries can help themselves.

Unwisely, they would cut back foreign aid to the neediest countries.

And because food is used as a foreign-policy weapon, they say, it is channeled away from the neediest countries to the politically important ones.

After 22 years of war and 4 years of drought, Afghanistan is perhaps the world's neediest country.

Under Public Law 480, food donations by the United States to needy underdeveloped countries are fortified.

In addition, we must ensure that the so-called orphans among the needy countries can also guarantee aid in the area of health.

Nike used to have two contract factories in impoverished Cambodia, among the neediest countries in the world.