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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...
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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 leading experts for insightful 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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In each episode, hosts Adva Saldinger, David Ainsworth, and Rumbi Chakamba break down major headlines and invite leading experts for insightful 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.
Episodes are published every Friday and can also be watched on YouTube.
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18 JUL. 2025 · After an all-night marathon of amendments, the U.S. Senate voted to https://www.devex.com/news/how-the-senate-saved-pepfar-but-still-greenlit-billions-in-aid-cuts-110531 this week. While the country’s flagship HIV/AIDS initiative https://www.devex.com/organizations/u-s-president-s-emergency-plan-for-aids-relief-pepfar-48995 was saved during the process, the package will still claw back nearly $8 billion in previously approved funding for foreign aid.
To dig into this story, and others, Senior Editor Rumbi Chakamba sits down with reporters Michael Igoe and Elissa Miolene for the latest episode of our weekly podcast series.
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14 JUL. 2025 · While the abrupt cuts to official development assistance and closure of the https://www.devex.com/organizations/united-states-agency-for-international-development-usaid-45096 have upended the existing global development landscape and multilateral framework, they also represent an opportunity to reimagine a more just and equitable international system, said https://www.devex.com/organizations/open-society-foundations-45109 President Binaifer Nowrojee.
In a podcast recording with Devex President and Editor-in-Chief Raj Kumar at Casa Devex during the https://www.devex.com/focus/ffd in Sevilla, Spain, Nowrojee emphasized the shifting power dynamics that are emerging and the need to focus on building strong domestic institutions and national capacity. “What we have is national architecture that’s completely underused. National development banks could play a role and build a different set of economic opportunities inside countries,” Nowrojee said.
The conversation also emphasized the urgent need to mobilize domestic resources to close the development finance gap — including through better international tax cooperation to help counter the $200 billion lost annually through corporate tax avoidance — and a fairer approach to debt. Today, https://unctad.org/news/debt-crisis-developing-countries-external-debt-hits-record-114-trillion live in countries that spend more on debt repayments than on health or education. “The global north actually gives pennies in aid compared to the dollars flowing out of the global south,” Nowrojee said.
This special episode of https://www.devex.com/news/this-week-in-global-development-106893 podcast was sponsored by the Open Society Foundations.
11 JUL. 2025 · With the https://www.devex.com/organizations/united-states-agency-for-international-development-usaid-45096 officially dismantled and its remnants folded into the State Department, the https://www.devex.com/news/how-do-we-fix-aid-110454. We delve into expert perspectives on what the future of foreign assistance might entail, exploring proposed transformations from widening the donor base beyond traditional Western nations to building new institutions and streamlining existing ones, such as the https://www.devex.com/organizations/united-nations-un-41567. This reimagining of aid aims to create a more effective and equitable system for a world grappling with evolving challenges and shifting geopolitical dynamics.
With France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States all cutting their aid budgets at the same time for the first time in decades, many low- and middle-income countries are facing steep declines in support. While https://www.devex.com/news/from-aid-trap-to-brutal-cuts-african-leaders-confront-a-new-reality-110307,” they have also maintained that the slashing of foreign aid may act as the wake-up call needed to break their dependency on traditional donors.
We also analyze https://www.devex.com/news/what-does-trump-s-big-beautiful-bill-mean-for-global-development-110480 and its potential implications for the global development sector.
To dig into these stories and others, Devex Business Editor David Ainsworth sits down with Managing Editor Anna Gawel and global development expert Nasra Ismail for the latest episode of This Week in Global Development.
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10 JUL. 2025 · As development budgets tighten, donors, NGOs, and implementing partners alike are all grappling with an increasingly urgent question: How do you move money efficiently and securely to people who need it most — especially in complex or hard-to-reach environments, where traditional banking fails?
One technology that’s gaining traction in this space is blockchain. “The speed, the efficiency, the transparency, and the ability to pay people very directly … [blockchain] is this very powerful technology in a crisis area,” said Candace Kelly, chief legal and policy officer at Stellar Development Foundation, whose mission is to create equitable access to the global financial system.
Kelly joined Devex Executive Editor Kate Warren for a podcast recording at Casa Devex, Devex’s events hub during the https://www.devex.com/focus/ffd in Sevilla, Spain.
This podcast episode is sponsored by Stellar Development Foundation.
3 JUL. 2025 · As the https://www.devex.com/focus/ffd wraps up, Devex reporters Jesse Chase-Lubitz and Elissa Miolene join Associate Editor Thomas Cserép for a podcast episode reflecting on what transpired this week in Sevilla — beyond the sweltering 115 degrees Celsius heat.
The big takeaway from FfD4 is the Compromiso de Sevilla, a document that participants view as both a commitment and a compromise. "Multilateralism lives" became the conference's unofficial motto as countries adapted to the United States’ absence.
“It's more of a pickup moment after six months of global upheaval, and now moving forward and seeing what's next, and perhaps there'll be other actors that fill that gap, and maybe that might come from the global south itself,” Miolene said.
Key outcomes include establishing a borrowers' group to amplify the voices of low- and middle-income countries, and creating a global debt registry aimed at promoting transparency. While climate language was significantly watered down due to the United States’ proposed amendments prior to their withdrawal, tax reform gained momentum, with renewed calls for a U.N. convention on international tax cooperation.
However, civil society groups expressed frustration over access restrictions at the conference, while journalists faced rigorous checkpoints entering areas where negotiations were actually taking place.
At the conference’s side events, private sector engagement was notably high, suggesting that despite falling aid budgets, there's a genuine appetite for partnerships — with the overall mood remaining cautiously optimistic about what comes next.
2 JUL. 2025 · With aid budgets under pressure globally, delegates at the https://www.devex.com/focus/ffd in Sevilla, Spain, are urgently exploring innovative ways to fund global development. But as the spotlight shifts toward private capital, there’s a growing concern that essential interventions without immediate financial returns — such as health investments — could be overlooked.
“We’re very clear that the cheapest money — concessional money, grant financing, and very concessional loans — should be allocated to those investments that give you this massive societal return, but not necessarily a financial return,” said https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=1bb1fa673ebee0697e65411d71967a32b1559d9df0737bf1b345e4ee3ba038a9JmltdHM9MTc1MTE1NTIwMA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=4&fclid=1f9f318a-158a-637b-24ae-25571498621c&psq=kapana+kochlear+Gates+foundation&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ2F0ZXNmb3VuZGF0aW9uLm9yZy9hYm91dC9sZWFkZXJzaGlwL2thbHBhbmEta29jaGhhcg&ntb=1, director of development policy and finance at the https://www.devex.com/organizations/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-b-mgf-44525, in an onstage conversation with Devex President and Editor-in-Chief Raj Kumar.
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, demonstrates how strategic health investments can pay off over time. “Gavi has graduated a number of countries who originally needed that subsidy to bring in vaccines and help purchase them at a lower price, but now [those countries] are doing it on their own,” Kumar said. However at the recent Gavi replenishment round, https://www.devex.com/news/gavi-pledges-fall-short-about-2-9b-as-us-pulls-out-110345 of its total budget request.
The discussion also highlighted new opportunities to attract private investment in health manufacturing — from vaccine production to locally made bed nets — and reflected on the progress made since the last Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, about a decade ago.
This special episode of https://www.devex.com/news/this-week-in-global-development-106893 was sponsored by the Gates Foundation.
30 JUN. 2025 · Development leaders have converged on Sevilla, Spain, for the https://www.devex.com/focus/ffd, or FfD4 — the first such gathering in a decade — as shrinking aid budgets and a U.S. retreat from multilateral commitments reshape the sector.
https://www.devex.com/news/what-happened-at-the-last-ffd-conference-and-what-has-changed-since-110305 official development assistance was at record levels amid ambitious “billions to trillions” rhetoric — the idea that limited public funds could catalyze massive private investment to tackle global challenges such as climate change.
Today’s backdrop includes the pandemic fallout, inflation, the war in Ukraine, and sweeping aid cuts. The U.S. participated in outcome document negotiations until the final stages, https://www.devex.com/news/exclusive-us-seeks-to-gut-un-development-goals-110276 to soften the language on climate and gender before withdrawing entirely, citing too many “red lines.”
In this special live podcast episode recorded at https://pages.devex.com/financing-for-development.html, Devex’s events hub for the next few days, reporters Elissa Miolene and Jesse Chase-Lubitz sit down with Executive Editor Kate Warren to discuss what’s at stake and why this “once-in-a-decade” forum has taken on heightened significance.
27 JUN. 2025 · This week, we have been closely following the https://www.devex.com/organizations/gavi-the-vaccine-alliance-44118’s high-level replenishment event in Brussels. Gavi, the leading international organization that provides vaccines to lower-income countries, finalized its five-year investment round event with https://www.devex.com/news/gavi-pledges-fall-short-about-2-9b-as-us-pulls-out-110345 — falling short of its total budget request of $11.9 billion.
Thehttps://www.devex.com/news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-says-the-us-is-cutting-funding-for-gavi-110367, with U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stating that the country will not fund Gavi until it works to “re-earn the public trust.”
On the topic of the U.S., our discussion also covers the Trump administration's decision to withdraw support for various U.N. Sustainable Development Goal commitments, alongside its https://www.devex.com/news/what-happened-at-the-last-ffd-conference-and-what-has-changed-since-110305 from the https://www.devex.com/focus/ffd.
To discuss these stories and others, Business Editor David Ainsworth sits down with Sara Jerving and Colum Lynch for the latest episode of our podcast series.
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19 JUN. 2025 · This week, we are at the https://www.devex.com/news/special-edition-before-cop30-takes-the-spotlight-bonn-sets-the-stage-110283. 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 the talks will translate into actionable policies.
We also look at how the Trump administration’s plans to cut foreign aid funding could create https://www.devex.com/news/us-farmers-about-to-become-roadkill-under-trump-food-aid-cuts-senators-warn-110293 for American agricultural producers.
This policy shift carries severe consequences, potentially undermining the economic stability of U.S. farmers involved in aid supply chains and degrading crucial international mechanisms for disease and pest surveillance that transcend national borders.
In order to dig into these stories, and others, Senior Editor Rumbi Chakamba sits down with Global Development Reporters Ayenat Mersie and Jesse Chase-Lubitz for the latest episode of our weekly podcast series.
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13 JUN. 2025 · 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 evolving aid landscape to the critical discussions around https://www.devex.com/focus/localization, we explore some of the key themes in global development that we have been covering. We examine the growing burden of debt in low-income countries and the urgent need for climate finance.
During this episode, we also look back at the key takeaways from the Hamburg Sustainability Conference, where Devex was a media partner.
For this week’s edition, Business Editor David Ainsworth sits down with Devex President and Editor-in-Chief Raj Kumar and Global Development Reporter Elissa Miolene to mark this special occasion.
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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...
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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 leading experts for insightful 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.
Episodes are published every Friday and can also be watched on YouTube.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@devex
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In each episode, hosts Adva Saldinger, David Ainsworth, and Rumbi Chakamba break down major headlines and invite leading experts for insightful 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.
Episodes are published every Friday and can also be watched on YouTube.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@devex
Sign up to the Devex Newswire and our other newsletters: https://www.devex.com/account/newsletters
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