Iacopo Viciani is aid policy officer at ActionAid Italy, and coordinator of an NGO task force on aid effectiveness with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He manages an English blog on Italian aid: actionaiditaly.blogspot.com.
As the holder of the G8 presidency, Italy will host the next G8 summit in July. The members will pledge support to developing countries to ease the impacts of the economic crisis. But with its poor aid record, does Italy have the legitimacy to lea…
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