CGD: Quality of Official Development Assitance Assessment
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Speaker: Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY), Chair, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives
Presider: M. Peter McPherson, President, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
November 19, 2009
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