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This Week in Global Development
Dive into the week's most critical global development news with the This Week in Global Development podcast.
In each episode, hosts Adva Saldinger, David Ainsworth, and Rumbi Chakamba break down major headlines and invite members of the Devex newsroom to share their expert analysis.
Get up-to-date on news regarding foreign aid, humanitarian crises, the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals, finance, philanthropy, climate, food systems, global health, and stay informed on the latest trends and…
Episodes
- This Week in Global Development
USAID's staffing shortages, and country-owned strategies in development
This week Devex Climate Correspondent William Worley sat down with Meike van Ginneken, the Netherlands’ special envoy for water, who argued that we should be…
- This Week in Global Development
Open Society Foundations' reorganization, and World Water Week
For the latest episode of the podcast, I am joined by global strategy and development leader Nasra Ismail and Devex Business Editor David Ainsworth to discuss…
- This Week in Global Development
U.S. and allies block key UN agreement and Germany's aid cuts
This week we broke an exclusive story on the United States, the United Kingdom, and a handful of allied powers blocking an agreement on a draft declaration…
- This Week in Global Development
USAID’s record breaking localization push and the impact of UK aid cuts
This week Devex reported that the U.S. Agency for International Development saw a record-breaking obligation to local contractors in 2022, up 169.8% in real…
- This Week in Global Development
The UK's refugee bill and a call to fight HIV and AIDS
While we usually expect the summer months to be slower than usual, it has certainly not been the case over the past week. In an exclusive Devex story, we found…
- This Week in Global Development
The latest from Women Deliver, WHO rotation, and BRAC localization
This week we’re closely following the conversations that took place at the Women Deliver conference in Kigali, Rwanda, which brought together thousands of…
- This Week in Global Development
AI adoption's risk and rewards, and a US aid agency returns to office
This year is seeing the proliferation of AI technology in our lives, which is having a big effect on the way many of us carry out our daily tasks in the…
- This Week in Global Development
WHO's updated malnutrition guidance and China's plan to cut UN funding
Last week, the World Health Organization released its long-awaited updated guidance on the prevention and management of malnutrition in children, which aims to…
- This Week in Global Development
Financial inclusion takes a hit amid rising debt and high interest rates
High interest rates are threatening the gains made in financial inclusion over the past decade, with investors backing off riskier investments especially in…
- This Week in Global Development
An insider look at Macron's global financing summit
French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact in Paris this week, which aims to strike a new post-World War II pact…
- This Week in Global Development
USAID's localization update and controversy over UK aid
This week USAID released its long-awaited localization update. Despite the progress made, not least due to the success of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan…
- This Week in Global Development
The unexpected struggle to reauthorize PEPFAR and a new World Bank era
While usually during the summer period news is expected to slow down, it was certainly not the case for the first couple of days of June. As the unexpected…
- This Week in Global Development
The future of localization and the humanitarian-development nexus
Seven years ago, the United Nations' World Humanitarian Summit proposed the "humanitarian-development nexus" to improve collaboration between the two ends of…
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What to make of this year’s World Bank Spring Meetings
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund’s Spring Meetings have come to an end this weekend. A great sense of change was anticipated for this year’s…