The Cities Alliance will partner with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Bank to host a unique multimedia exhibition in Washington, DC featuring life in the slums.

As it embarked on an ambitious stimulus spending, Thailand turned to the World Bank for advice on how to fast track the spending coupled with proper management controls to keep programs on the rails. The government also sought counsel on which World Bank financial products might complement its efforts to curb the crisis.

Theophilus Yartey, Deputy Editor of Ghana’s leading business newspaper, Business & Financial Times, has won the first Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu Finance & Economic Journalist of the Year Award.

UN-HABITAT and the US Department for Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will co-host the global celebrations of World Habitat Day 2009 in Washington, DC on October 5.