Sachs argues that sufficient foreign aid can make up for the lack of capital in poor countries, maintaining that, " If the foreign assistance is substantial enough, and lasts long enough, the capital stock rises sufficiently to lift households above subsistence.

If modest amounts of cash and land can be combined with a modicum of agricultural skills in a temperate climate, subsistence can give way toward modest societal wealth.

If one farmer was doing far better for himself than the others, someone might say that it was because of him having a tomte on the farm, doing " ungodly " work and stealing from the neighbours.

If the weed patch is vigorous enough, the farmer may mow the patch first before tilling.

If the actual price of wheat rises greatly between planting and harvest, the farmer stands to make a lot of unexpected money, but if the actual price drops by harvest time, he could be ruined.

If at planting time the farmer sells a number of wheat futures contracts equivalent to his anticipated crop size, he effectively locks in the price of wheat at that time: the contract is an agreement to deliver a certain number of bushels of wheat to a specified place on a certain date in the future for a certain fixed price.

If prices stayed low, the farmer still had enough money to live as well as plant next year.

If a farmer fulfilled the five-year plan early he would be awarded a share of the crops.

If the farmer hires outside labor to tend the betel vines, and harvest the crop, the FAO found the net income to the betel farm owner to be SL Rs.

If the Tomte is ignored or maltreated or the farm is not cared for, he can sabotage a lot of the work on the farm to teach the farmer a lesson or two.

One Lake District farmer summed the problem up as, " We get 100, 000 visitors across our land every year ... If just one in a thousand forgets to shut a gate or can't be bothered, that's a hundred times we have to go out and round up our sheep.

If he becomes a farmer or a rancher, he will take over the family farm.

If, for example, in a very small economy, a farmer and a mechanic, with just $ 50 between them, buy new goods and services from each other in just three transactions over the course of a year

If a farmer wanted to send a cow to market, he would have to send two calves to balance it, which would travel back on opposite sides of the same freight wagon, thereby balancing each other.

When a child is being born they repeat the old proverb which says: " If the newborn is a son he will become a farmer and if a girl she will become carpet weaver.

If approved the visa will be valid for all three partner states in the EAC ( Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda ).

If we make it established custom that whenever butchery on the highways grows excessive, say beyond 25,000 per annum, then somebody is going to hang, it follows that the more eminent the victim, the more impressive the lesson.

If a simply stable system response neither decays nor grows over time, and has no oscillations, it is marginally stable: in this case the system transfer function has non-repeated poles at complex plane origin ( i. e. their real and complex component is zero in the continuous time case ).

If the line asymptotically grows longer and longer without bound, the checkout process is not real-time.

A design can grow like a tree, he explained: " If it grows naturally, the architecture will look after itself.

If a star grows outside of its Roche lobe too fast for all abundant matter to be transferred to the other component, it is also possible that matter will leave the system through other Lagrange points or as stellar wind, thus being effectively lost to both components.

If the mother plant was diploid, then the haploid embryo that results is monoploid, and the plant that grows from the embryo is sterile.

If the culture from the central line grows bacteria much earlier (> 2 hours ) than the other site, the line is the likely source of the infection.

If a keloid grows too large, removal is the only solution, resulting in a scar or, in worst cases, amputation.

If the frequency and wavenumber of this forcing term match a mode of vibration of the capillary-gravity wave ( as derived above ), then there is a resonance, and the wave grows in amplitude.

If the diver is positively buoyant and rising, the buoyancy of the dry suit becomes uncontrollable after rising though a certain fraction of depth, and there is then an increased risk of a rapid ascent which grows more rapid, as the distance to the surface decrease.

If n is a higher power of a prime, then results of Graham Higman and Charles Sims give asymptotically correct estimates for the number of isomorphism types of groups of order n, and the number grows very rapidly as the power increases.

If later analyses indicates that the remnants were of only mature wild seeds of a type of plant that grows locally, it could be inferred that the site was only visited seasonally.

If debt grows or shrinks slowly as a percentage of GDP, its impact on aggregate demand is small ; conversely, if debt is significant, then changes in the dynamics of debt growth can have significant impact on aggregate demand.

* If p > q + 1 then the ratio of coefficients grows without bound.

If the predators are eradicated, the prey population grows without bound in this simple model ).

If the amoeba grows too large, it will solidify into boulders, and if it is stopped from growing any more, it will crystallize into diamonds.

If the music swells, the body swells: if the music grows quiet, the body comes to rest.

If the child witnesses any sort of sexual behaviours between persons he is familiar with, after all of this anti sexual conditioning, the child may become confused and thus it may lead to sexual inhibition as the child grows.

If this transcription factor is damaged, the fly grows legs on its head instead of antennae.

With his magic power Stan intones, " If all the flies were one fly, what a great enormous fly-follolloper that would bold ," and the fly grows to gigantic proportions.

If a borrower wishes interest-bearing instruments, the money can be kept with the lender ( in which case the account grows by the same percentage as the interest rate of the loan ), the funds can be moved to a directed account with a financial specialist ( an option that is risky unless the borrower directs the specialist's investment options ), or the money can be invested and managed by the borrower.

If pushed enough the Tropican people may choose to rebel against " El Presidente ", conducting guerrilla attacks against various buildings on the island ; if the rebellion grows strong enough this will result in the overthrow of the player.

If the plant grows in the water itself, it rises above the surface of the water.

If the spread ( the difference between the convertible and the non-convertible bonds ) grows excessively, then the capital-structure arbitrageur will bet that it will converge.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If there's no suitable academy in your own neighborhood, there's always New England.

If we cannot stop warfare in our own economic system, how can we expect to abolish it internationally??

If within one year you can make a success out of the American, you can practically name your own salary thereafter.

If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.

If the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.

If a broader Atlantic community is to be formed -- and my own judgment is that it lies within the realm of both our needs and our capacity -- a ready nucleus of machinery is at hand in the NATO alliance.

If we break the minister to our bit, we are buying back our own sins.

If he can't play with Mommy's magazines, he should have some old numbers of his own.

If Daddy's books are out of bounds his own picture books are not.

If he snatches a toy, she says, `` Caroline wants her own truck just as you do ''.

If you don't own a planer and don't want to buy one, it's well worth renting.

If of the founders of glottochronology Swadesh has escaped our steady plodding, and Lees has repudiated his own share in the founding, that is no reason why we should swerve.

If there were more such cases, it would be easier to answer the question whether the policy-makers favor their own social classes.

If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

If the enemy struck from the sea, he would counter them with his own naval power.

In the biography, Paul Allen wrote, regarding a suggestion in Cosmopolitan that his plays were becoming autobiographical: " If we take that to mean that his plays tell his own life story, he still hasn't started.

Immanuel Kant, writing in 1790, observes of a man " If he says that canary wine is agreeable he is quite content if someone else corrects his terms and reminds him to say instead: It is agreeable to me ," because " Everyone has his own ( sense of ) taste ".

* If a fighter was knocked down, he had to rise within 30 seconds under his own power to be allowed to continue.

We must take the offensive and beat Sinn Fein at its own tactics ... If a police barracks is burned or if the barracks already occupied is not suitable, then the best house in the locality is to be commandeered, the occupants thrown into the gutter.

If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

If so, according to, this incident resulted that the Bi officials inadvertently revolted against their own lord through Confucius ' doing, thus forcing Viscount Ji Huan's hand in having to dismantle the walls of Bi ( as it could have harbored such rebels ) or confess to instigating the event by going against proper conduct and righteousness as an official.

" If psychiatry is the medical technique that aims to enable man no longer to be a stranger to his environment, I owe it to myself to affirm that the Arab, permanently an alien in his own country, lives in a state of absolute depersonalization .” ( 2 )

* If the offence scores a field goal, the scoring team must kickoff from their own 35-yard line.