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    Development news roundup: North Korea's lost food aid with failed satellite launch, Canada aid cuts, and more

    By Jenny Lei Ravelo // 13 April 2012

    Today, we reported:

    • Failure to launch: North Korea shoots down US food aid

    • Canadian aid cuts: Where will the ax fall?

    • New WFP head reveals first priority task

    • Private funding for humanitarian response: Trends and challenges

    • Aid plan? Not necessary — Sudanese governor

    • DfID urged to focus on humanitarian needs in South Sudan

    • World Bank to help deliver safe water for rural Bangladeshi villages

    Other must-reads:

    • Switzerland offers to host Green Climate Fund secretariat, vies for executive board seat

    • Survey: EU energy access programs in poor countries enjoy support of most Europeans

    • EU affirms support for climate change efforts in Pacific region

    • Executives, world leaders put PPPs on agenda at business summit in the Americas

    • US announces additional $482M contribution to UNHCR

    • G8 foreign ministers to consider easing sanctions on Myanmar

    • Morocco, Bangladesh benefit from World Bank-led ‘climate actions’

    • UK brings cutting edge agricultural techniques in Afghanistan

    • Another Rio+20 agenda: Disaster response

    • 3 Nigerian states roll out health-care reforms with $150M World Bank support

    • World Bank arm extends debt reduction operations to 2017

    • David Cameron’s visit could spell fewer sanctions on Myanmar

    • USAID, Liberia launch $45M governance, economic management project

    • MSF wants to resume operations in Bahrain

    • Oxfam lobbies for US food aid reform with new ‘satirical’ video

    • Jeffrey Sachs’ advice to Jim Yong Kim: Focus on malaria, food security, renewable energy

    • Oxfam sets up ‘chlorine boxes’ to fight cholera in Haiti

    • UK Foreign Office suffers cuts, MPs ‘disappointed’

    • CIVICUS report calls on donors to take ‘real action’ on aid transparency

    • US pushes for UN resolution obliging Syrian government to comply with peace plan

    • $37M USAID grant to boost development projects in Yemen

    • Egypt ‘expects’ $3.2B IMF loan by May

    • IMF positive on Ivory Coast’s completion of debt relief in June

    • PAHO/WHO, Spain support health systems in the Americas with $10.5M agreement

    • Jim Yong Kim to seek support for candidacy in Russia, Peru

    • Seth Kaplan: The next World Bank president should reform system of country classifications

    • Rio+20 could be about ‘crowdsourcing sustainability’

    • The G-20 challenge: Live up to IMF reform pledge

    • Summit capital of the world? Give it to Latin America

    • Let’s hear it: Reactions to David Cameron chairing a new UN panel that will establish the next set of MDGs

    • The next World Bank president should come from emerging markets, economics professor says

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    • Jenny Lei Ravelo

      Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo

      Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.

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