Morning Briefing

Thousands of government and private aid officials will meet in Busan, South Korea, on Tuesday for the beginning of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, which is "aimed at making sure billions of dollars in global aid money gets to the people who need it most," the Associated Press/Washington Post reports (11/29). "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend [the] summit in Busan, held against a backdrop of economic crisis in the United States and Europe and the rich world's repeated failure to meet its targets for helping the poorest nations," Reuters writes (Quinn, 11/28).