Special episode: Can health survive the development finance revolution?
With aid budgets under pressure globally, delegates at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in Sevilla, Spain, are urgently exploring innovative ways to fund global develop...
2 Heinä 202524min
FfD4 kicks off as aid budgets shrink and U.S. steps back
Development leaders have converged on Sevilla, Spain, for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, or FfD4 — the first such gathering in a decade — as shrinking aid budgets an...
30 Kesä 202522min
How cuts to Gavi reflect US disengagement from development
This week, we have been closely following the Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance’s high-level replenishment event in Brussels. Gavi, the leading international organization that provides vaccines to lower-inco...
27 Kesä 202526min
Bonn climate talk updates, and how aid cuts are affecting US farmers
This week, we are at the Bonn Climate Change Conference. From climate financing to the absence of the United States, we take a look at the major talking points at the summit and contemplate whether th...
19 Kesä 202523min
Episode 100: What happened in global development over the past 2 years?
In celebration of our 100th podcast episode, we’re revisiting the most impactful global development stories from the past two years, covering the period since our very first recording.From the evolvin...
13 Kesä 202536min
Trump budget targets US aid, plus what we heard at AfDB meetings
On this week’s podcast episode, we unpack U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget request, which proposes sweeping cuts to foreign aid and includes the elimination of funding for major global health...
6 Kesä 202538min
Key takeaways from WHA78, and Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s fallout
This week we reflect on the 78th World Health Assembly, which Devex covered on the ground in Geneva. From the historic agreement of the Pandemic Treaty to the World Health Organization's strategies fo...
29 Touko 202531min
Special Episode: Leadership, small business, economic growth in a changing landscape
Explosive growth in the middle class, rapid urbanization, digitization and automation, the energy transition, and evolving geopolitics — these all present unique challenges for today’s businesses, sai...
27 Touko 202527min
