FOREIGN AID: Gifts, loans, technical assistance, and other assorted transfers from one country to another that are intended to improve conditions in the receiving nation. The U. S. has been a major player in this foreign aid game throughout much of the twentieth century. However, most of the more developed countries of the world give aid to the lesser developed ones.

     See also | foreign | foreign sector | foreign trade | economic development | export | import | International Monetary Fund | World Bank |

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The total accounting profits received by corporations. Corporate profits are the official item in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economics Analysis that measures profit earned by the household sector for supplying entrepreneurship services through corporations, and to some degree capital and land services, too. This is one of five official factor payments making up national income. The other four are compensation of employees, rental income of persons, net interest, and proprietors' income. Corporate profits the second largest factor payment category, usually coming in around 20 to 25 percent of national income.

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