Development news round-up: ACTA and generic medicines, EEAS spending, Padma bridge project, and more

Today, we reported:

• ACTA: More than just a piracy issue

• Catherine Ashton defends EEAS expenditure

• Is UK running away from foreign aid pledge?

• Watchdog says no corruption in Bangladesh bridge project

• Wanted: Successful businesses with significant MDG impact

• Egypt turns to World Bank, EU for financial support

• US injects funds into Pakistani universities

• UN appeals for $718M for DRC

• VSF Belgium seeks more aid for African pastoralists

Other must reads:

• World Meteorological Organization launches new climate, weather information system

• Changes await the Global Fund

• Switzerland releases new foreign policy report

• Assistance needed for scientists in poor countries

• Uganda secures $70M for road safety

• ICRC reacts to al-Shabab ban, affirms commitment to helping Somalis

• Haruhiko Kuroda urges private sector to boost green investment

• Multidonor livelihood fund improved basic infrastructure, agricultural techniques in Myanmar

• World Bank approves $70M climate change program in Vietnam

• Cholera breaks out among children, elderly in Kachin refugee camps

• Milk donations indirectly worsening malnutrition in storm-hit southern Philippines

• USAID sign $60M food-security MOU with Ghana

• Whydev, Development Crossroads launch peer coaching for aid, development workers

• World Bank’s innovative financing scheme might not apply to hydropower projects

• Challenge to aid agencies in Asia: Use economic lessons to guide development

• Andris Piebalgs appoints founding members of new EU development policy advisory board

• Helen Clark updates UNDP executive board on next strategic plan

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