In a speech in advance of next week's G8 Summit in Scotland, US President George W Bush has outlined his administration's position on aid to Africa.
The president told an audience at the Hudson Institute in Washington that US aid to Africa has tripled during his presidency and that he proposed to double it again.
However, he said what was needed was 'partnership not paternalism.' He said economic development was ‘not something we do for countries, it is something they achieve with us’.
On climate change, the Mr Bush said putting the world on an energy diet was not the way to cope with environmental challenges. Instead, he said, investing in new technology was the way forward.
He also said that overcoming extreme poverty would require lifting a burden of debt that poor nations cannot repay.
The US President said that in partnership with Britain and the G8, the US was pushing for cancellation of $40billion of debt in 18 of the worlds' poorest countries.
He also called for a prompt and successful conclusion to the negotiations of the Doha trade round.
Mr Bush announced a doubling of funding for the African Education Initiative, which will provide $400m over the next four years for scholarships to train approximately 300,000 students.
