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

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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