This Week in Global Development

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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 policy changes shaping global development.

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Yesterday · 29 min
Special edition: Why Are Money and Systems Failing Disability?
In this special edition of the This Week in Global Development podcast, produced in partnership with the Global Disability Fund, Devex co-founder and Executive Vice President Alan Robbins sits down with the fund’s director Ola Abualghaib for a candid,...
Friday · 35 min
Beyond World Sight Day: Can the Global Summit for Eye Health Make Vision Impossible to Ignore?
More than 90% of global vision loss is preventable or treatable with low-cost interventions such as cataract surgery or prescription glasses. Yet 1.1 billion people worldwide currently lack access to basic eye care — a number projected to double by...
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Thursday · 28 min
Building resilient systems in development finance and global health
This week we are at Building Bridges, a conference aiming to bring different stakeholders together to build investable solutions to global challenges. We discuss the key topics at the summit, including how the private sector can be effectively engaged...
October 6 · 27 min
Special Edition: AI in practice: Bridging the implementation gap
Across the global development landscape, artificial intelligence promises to redefine how health, education, and social protection services are delivered. However, moving past small-scale piloting to deliver measurable, population-level impact amid...
October 2 · 33 min
Special edition: Reimagining financing for development and growth
The fundamental question of how development and growth are financed is undergoing a profound transformation. Over the course of a series of original essays and op-eds, https://pages.devex.com/thenextfrontier.html – a Devex series in partnership with...
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October 1 · 35 min
Inside the US global health overhaul and Buffett's philanthropic strategy
The United States is set to implement one of the biggest overhauls of its global health assistance in decades. https://www.devex.com/news/what-we-know-and-still-don-t-about-the-us-global-health-deals-113464, shifting greater responsibility onto their...
September 30 · 29 min
The Power to Decide: Reclaiming Sovereignty in a Digital Era
In this special edition episode of This Week in Global Development, sponsored by Public Digital, Devex's Alan Robbins sits down with Public Digital's Lauren Kahn and Mike Bracken CBE. Recorded at Devex Impact House during UNGA, they unpack the urgent...
September 25 · 30 min
Global Progress in the AI Era: As Anthropic urges caution on AI, its ‘beneficial deployments’ work grows
Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei made headlines recently by calling for slowing the development of increasingly powerful AI models to give safety measures time to catch up. That only increased the urgency of another effort within the company,...
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September 24 · 20 min
Live from UNGA: Navigating the new era of multilateralism
This week we are closely tracking the conversations at the https://www.devex.com/focus/unga and what they mean for the global development sector. From U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech rejecting international governance frameworks and championing...
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September 17 · 38 min
The Gates Foundation's latest AI pledge, and a look ahead to UNGA 81
This week, we report on the Gates Foundation’s https://www.devex.com/news/as-ai-fears-mount-gates-hopes-to-make-it-a-force-for-good-in-global-south-113292, which includes a $1 billion pledge to make AI more inclusive. The funding aims to expand access...
September 15 · 32 min
Special edition: The real funding gap isn't money
In this special episode of the This Week in Global Development podcast, sponsored by Rippleworks, Devex Senior Editor for Special Coverage Catherine Cheney sits down with Doug Galen, CEO of Rippleworks, and Azeez Gupta, co-founder of Rocket Learning,...
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September 10 · 35 min
Bypassing the traditional aid system: The big bet to end starvation
This week, we discuss our https://www.devex.com/news/the-supersonic-rise-of-operation-end-starvation-113090 on Operation End Starvation, a new initiative aiming to remake the global malnutrition supply chain. With a focus on cost-effectiveness, the...
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September 3 · 26 min
The fight over $7.5B in expiring aid and a rejected State Department grant
We recently reported that roughly $7.5 billion in international affairs funding is https://www.devex.com/news/scoop-7-5b-in-us-funding-for-international-affairs-at-risk-of-expiring-113185 by the end of this month. In a letter, more than 100 U.S....
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August 27 · 30 min
The water sector’s funding challenge and Asia’s philanthropy push
At World Water Week in Stockholm, financing took center stage ahead of the U.N. Water Conference in Abu Dhabi this December. The annual gathering saw around 2,000 participants discuss water governance, security, and the rising pressures of a...
August 25 · 27 min
Special edition: Rethinking the housing crisis
What if housing finance could help solve today's biggest challenges? In this special episode, Habitat for Humanity’s Jacqueline Innocent reveals why housing is an upstream catalyst for health, education, and equality — and how inclusive finance can...
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August 20 · 28 min
Famine reporting goes dark in 3 crisis zones, and COP31’s critical test
Afghanistan, Somalia, and Yemen, three of the world’s most hunger-prone nations, were https://www.devex.com/news/famine-tracker-stops-monitoring-afghanistan-somalia-and-yemen-113081 — a U.S.-based data and monitoring system which tracks hunger levels...
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August 13 · 29 min
Inside the State Department’s historic pivot to faith-based organizations
In this episode of This Week in Global Development, Business Editor David Ainsworth sits down with Senior Reporters Michael Igoe and Sara Jerving to discuss the...
August 12 · 41 min
Special edition: Are jobs for youth development's silver bullet?
In this week’s special edition episode of the This Week in Global Development podcast, sponsored by the https://www.devex.com/organizations/international-youth-foundation-iyf-5143 and the...
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July 29 · 36 min
Tracking the real-world impacts of US foreign aid cuts
This week, we discuss https://www.theaidreport.us/, a project supported by a media grant from the https://www.devex.com/organizations/gates-foundation-44525 to track the real-world impacts of U.S. foreign aid cuts. Over the past couple of months,...
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July 22 · 30 min
The new era of US and European foreign assistance
This week we look back at the https://www.devex.com/news/the-state-department-and-aid-the-story-so-far-shorthand-112926 — a period defined by the dismantling of...

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