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
Phyllis Cuttino calls for Malpass' ouster
At the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the calls for the restructuring of multilateral development banks are echoing through the halls, with the hopes that wit...
24 Nov 202214min
Matthias Berninger on the business case for climate action
The private sector has a key role to play in investing in climate change adaptation – and yet, currently, only 1.6% of all adaptation funding comes from private investment. Matthias Berninger is the...
23 Nov 202227min
