This Week in Global Dev: #6: Financial inclusion takes a hit amid rising debt & high interest rates
High interest rates are threatening the gains made in financial inclusion over the past decade, with investors backing off riskier investments especially in inclusive fintech, as reported by Devex’s S...
30 Juni 202334min
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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Maj 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 Dec 202220min
