News Highlights: World Bank Announces Global Infrastructure Agreement and Aid to Haiti

Summary: http://www.worldbank.org/ - During the 2014 Annual Meetings, the World Bank has launched a massive private sector partnership to raise billions of dollars in private money to build infrastructure in developing economies and also announced a 50 million dollar pledge to fight cholera in Haiti. Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim said waterborne diseases are a leading cause of death for Haitian children. He also said that all developing countries need an estimated 1 trillion dollars a year to maintain and increase infrastructure needed to keep their economies growing.