This Week in Global Dev: #5: The unexpected struggle to reauthorize PEPFAR and a new World Bank era
While usually during the summer, news is expected to slow down, that was certainly not the case for the first weeks in June. As the unexpected struggle to reauthorize PEPFAR, the U.S. global AIDS init...
23 Jun 202328min
This Week in Global Dev: #4: 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 for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, the agency is ...
23 Jun 202327min
This Week in Global Dev: #3: 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 between high-income nations and those most ...
23 Jun 202323min
This Week in Global Dev: #2: 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 the aid sector. Although it was initially...
4 Mai 202330min
This Week in Global Dev: #1: 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 event, as Devex wrote last week. But what do...
17 Apr 202330min
Davos Dispatch — what really went down at WEF '23?
Davos 2023 has wrapped, and Devex was there to experience it all. In this installment of Davos Dispatch, Devex President and Editor-in-Chief Raj Kumar compared notes with reporter Vince Chadwick on wh...
9 Feb 202335min
Oliver English on the need for regenerative agriculture
In the final episode of COPcast, chef, food advocate and filmmaker Oliver English sits down with Kate Warren to discuss how regenerative agriculture and support for small scale farmers can help transf...
2 Des 202220min
AFD boss Remy Rioux on climate progress
Rémy Rioux is chief executive officer of the French Development Agency, or AFD. But before that, in 2015, he worked as chief negotiator on the finance track of the landmark Paris Agreement on climate....
29 Nov 202218min
