Up in Arms

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Pledges made at the G8 summit for fighting world poverty mainly dealt with aid, trade rules, and debt servicing. In this week’s Underreported feature, we’ll examine an overlooked issue: the impact of the arms trade on global poverty. We’ll be speaking with William Hartung, director of the World Policy Institute’s Arms Trade Research Center, and Debbie Hillier, a Senior Policy Analyst for Oxfam.

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