What We’re Reading 3/18/09
Reuters: WTO’s Lamy to attend G20 London summit
World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy will attend the G20 summit of rich and emerging countries in London on April 2, the WTO said on Tuesday.
Associated Press: World Bank says global economic crisis could shrink badly needed investment in water resources
The global economic crisis threatens to shrink investment in water infrastructure, an already underfunded sector vital to growth and public health, the World Bank said Tuesday.
Christian Science Monitor: How to make US foreign aid work
Raymond C. Offenheiser president of Oxfam America and a member of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network and Rodney Bent, the acting chief executive officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation, highlight the need for aid recipients to have a say in where the money goes.
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