Hillary Clinton Speaks on Development in 21st Century Jan. 6

HIllary Clinton will speak at 1:30 eastern at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in D.C.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to argue Wednesday that aiding developing countries and improving opportunities for women should be among the highest priorities for U.S. foreign policy in nations such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, State Department officials said.

“We have a wealth of data and information that show that a dollar provided to a woman is more likely to be invested in child welfare, in education, in the health of a family and the sustainability of a community than otherwise,” said Raj Shah, the USAID administrator, on a conference call with reporters.

Clinton will say in a speech that development is a “strategic, economic and moral imperative as central to advancing American interests and solving global problems as diplomacy or defense,” Anne-Marie Slaughter, the State Department's director of policy planning, said on the conference call. Politico