Part of Oral Answers to Questions — International Development – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 24 June 2009.
Last weekend the World Bank published its global economic outlook, the development finance report, which predicted that developing countries will lose $1 trillion as a result of the economic downturn. What is the Minister's Department doing to identify the countries that will be most badly hit and to ensure that development aid is provided to enable them to deal with the downturn?