Today, members of the InterAction alliance called on G-20 leaders to rapidly implement their previous pledge of $50 billion for the world’s poorest countries at next week’s Pittsburgh Summit.
With rapidly decreasing donor country financial assistance and lower tourism, developing countries need the G-20 to step up immediately to fill the gap. There is no stimulus plan for the poor; there is no buffer to protect them from food, energy and financial crises. “Ultimately, it comes down to the willingness of nations to put money behind the pledges on behalf of the world’s poorest, who will not be at the G-20 table,” said Samuel A. Worthington, President and CEO of InterAction. “We feel confident that the U.S. movement interested in global poverty issues is both from the right and the left, faith-based and secular.”
Full Press Release: As G-20 Approaches, Development Organizations Stress Economic Recovery Hurdles Facing Developing Countries
