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    Development news roundup: Donors play carrot and stick in Myanmar, USAID reduces projects in Pakistan, and more

    By Devex Editor // 16 April 2012

    Today, we reported:

    • Donors play carrot and stick in Myanmar

    • From 140 to 35: USAID to cut down projects in Pakistan

    • FAO seeks aid for South Sudanese returnees

    • UNICEF confirms fraud in Pakistan school rehabilitation project

    • Who will succeed Hillary?

    • Taliban ‘security offensive’ heightens security fears in Afghanistan

    Other must reads:

    • Poverty reduction through public-private partnerships, deeper regional integration discussed in first Americas summit

    • USAID innovation fund seeks breakthrough solutions to development challenges in the Americas

    • To boost food security, invest in irrigation and drainage services – ADB

    • IFC, World Bank, IsDB host MENA infrastructure development conference

    • UNICEF opens aid spending data to transparency initiative

    • 45th ADB annual meeting to focus on inclusive growth

    • WFP scales up blanket-feeding, food distribution and targeted supplementary feeding in Chad

    • Refugee influx strains WFP’s food stocks in Burkina Faso

    • Rajiv Shah to talk food security at SAIS conference

    • First batch of 6 UN monitors arrive in Syria, start peace-building work

    • $263M in UK aid used to fund forced sterilization of India’s poor

    • Andrew Mitchell to announce plan to fund small businesses in poor countries at World Bank spring meeting

    • DfID officials assure Joyce Banda of resumption of aid to Malawi

    • ShelterBox among expert advisers at Aid and International Development Forum

    • Dilemma at the World Bank: Politics or race?

    • China sends technical equipment, specialists to avalanche-hit Siachen

    • Oxfam shop manager holds photo exhibit to demonstrate importance of aid

    • China provides $16M aid package to Egypt

    • NGO works to save Ethiopia’s ‘condemned children,’ one baby at a time

    • Aid groups, charities in Australia believe government will cut overseas development funds

    • Report: Mobile technologies need to play central role in reducing child, maternal deaths in Ethiopia

    • ONE applauds G8 ministers’ continued support for the Global Fund

    • South Africa to host training event on international humanitarian law

    • IRD partners with The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation Team to boost water security in Somalia

    • Voting for the next World Bank president: What’s the rush?

    • There’s an ideological, religious virus in conflict settings: The murder of aid workers, journalists

    • Want to make aid work? Try classifying countries by aid level

    • Developed countries are silencing UNCTAD. Why?

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