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Tackling the Climate Crisis | The Development Podcast from 2023-12-04T06:00
The 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP 28) comes at the heels ...
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Annual Meetings 2023: A New Vision for Challenging Times | The Development Podcast from 2023-10-27T06:00
The 2023 World Bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings took place from October 9-15 in Marrakech, M...
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Tackling Food Insecurity: From Emergency to Resilience | The Development Podcast from 2023-09-29T06:00
Multiple shocks – from COVID-19 to climate change, conflict, crop disease – are crippling food systems, leading to higher food prices and growing hunger. Up to 783 million people f...
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How Do We Support the World’s Poorest Countries? | The Development Podcast from 2023-07-28T06:00
Meet the International Development Association (IDA), the arm of the World Bank that h...
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The Interlocking Challenges of Climate Change and Poverty | The Development Podcast from 2023-06-30T06:00
How do we address climate change, reduce poverty, and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet? Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time, and no country ...
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On the Move: The Migration Challenge from 2023-05-26T06:00
Migration is a development challenge. About 184 million people—2.3 percent of the world’s population—live outside of their country of nationality, and almost half of them are in...
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Spring Meetings 2023: Toward a New Era from 2023-04-28T06:00
The 2023 World Bank Group-IMF Spring Meetings took place from April 10-16, amidst a backdrop of challenges: from stress in the banking sector, persistent inflation, rising debt, climate change a...
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Everyday Superheroes: Exploring Unpaid Care Work By Women from 2023-04-01T06:00
What impact does unpaid care work have on women's economic prospects and growth? How can we support these everyday superheroes? In this episode of Listen
Challenges Without Borders: Confronting Crises Around the World from 2023-02-24T06:00
In this episode of The Development Podcast, we mark one year of Russia’s ...
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Why Have Smaller States Been Hit So Hard by Economic Shocks? from 2023-02-03T06:00
The recently released January edition of this year’s Global Economic P...
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2022 in Review: A Year of Uncertainty from 2022-12-20T07:00
The past twelve months have been turbulent for the global economy. Conflict, inflation, food supply crises and the long tail of the Covid-19 pandemic have caused shockwaves acro...
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Why Are We Witnessing the Biggest Setback to Global Poverty Reduction in Decades? from 2022-12-05T07:00
COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, and other crises have dealt the biggest setback to global poverty reduction in decades. 2020 alone saw the largest one-year increase in extreme poverty since global...
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Highlights from the 2022 World Bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings: Navigating an Uncertain World from 2022-11-17T07:30
This year’s World Bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings took place against the backdrop of a seri...
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From Coal to Clean Energy: Protecting People Through the Transition from 2022-09-26T10:00
Our warming world needs to wean itself away from fossil fuels, but closing coal mines can impact jobs and communities. How can we ensure people and communities are at the center of the t...
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What Does Stagflation Mean for the Global Economy? from 2022-07-21T07:00
The world is grappling with a sharp deceleration in growth, coupled with rising inflation. Are we experiencing so-called stagflation, what does that mean for people, and wh...
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Why Is the World Facing a Food Crisis? And Why Are Prices Climbing So High? from 2022-06-15T07:30
The world is facing rising food prices that are hitting poor and developing countries hardest. Even before COVID-19 reduced incomes and disrupted supply chains, chronic and...
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Human Capital at the Crossroads: Reversing the Losses, Reclaiming our Future | Highlights from the WBG-IMF Spring Meetings 2022 from 2022-05-27T09:00
Putting people first through investing in human capital – the knowledge, skills, and health that people need to achieve their potential – is critical for sustainable, inclusive growth and povert...
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Preserving Open Trade: Subsidies, Geopolitics, and International Cooperation | Highlights from the WBG-IMF Spring Meetings 2022 from 2022-05-25T09:00
Trade can be an effective catalyst for growth and development. However, the growing use of market-distorting subsidies undermines the multi-lateral, rules-based trading system that has promoted ...
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On the Frontlines of Rising Fragility: Collaborating and Innovating for Impact | Highlights from the WBG-IMF Spring Meetings 2022 from 2022-05-23T09:00
By 2030, up to two-thirds of the world's extreme poor could live in fragility, conflict, and violence settings, so without addressing the challenges in these economies, we will ...
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Financing Climate Action: Transitioning Economies, Transforming Climate | Highlights from the WBG-IMF Spring Meetings 2022 from 2022-05-20T14:00
The connection between development and climate change is increasingly clear: delivering on these together will require large-scale low-carbon and resilient investments. It will also require appr...
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The Digital Revolution: Fostering Inclusion and Resilient Growth | Highlights from the WBG-IMF Spring Meetings 2022 from 2022-05-17T14:00
The COVID-19 pandemic sent advanced and developing economies into starkly divergent paths—with advanced economies expected to recover fully by 2023 and developing economies expected to lag for y...
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Women, Business, and the Law: Examining the Obstacles to Women’s Economic Inclusion from 2022-03-16T10:00
Around the world 178 countries either have laws that hinder women’s economic inclusion, or lack laws that foster it. That translates to 2.4 billion women of working age who don’t have equal econ...
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How Crypto Technologies Could Revolutionize Development from 2021-12-22T10:00
How could crypto technologies change the international development sector? In this latest episode of the Development Podcast from the World Bank Group we discuss how blockchain could revolutionize ...
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‘Entire Economies Could Be Held Hostage by Climate Change’ from 2021-08-30T12:00
On this edition of the Development Podcast from the World Bank Group, Raka Banerjee and Paul Blake examine one of the biggest challenges facing the global community today: Climate Change.
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'Absolutely Unacceptable'Vaccination Rates in Developing Countries from 2021-08-03T09:30
"The situation that we see right now is absolutely unacceptable, because a large of the world remains unvaccinated and this is a danger for all of us,"so warns Mamta Murthi, the World Bank's Vice P...
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As COVID-19 Wreaks Havoc on Service Workers, is the Informal Sector Increasing Global Inequality? from 2021-05-24T09:15
Around the world, some 70% of economic activity is taking place in the shadows – and no, we’re not talking about drug smuggling or other illegal commerce. In this edition of The Developme...
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'We’re learning that development is very fragile‘ - Expert roundtable on the COVID-19 response successes and challenges from 2021-01-19T10:00
In our first episode of 2021, we invited an all star panel of development experts - including UNICEF’s Henrietta Fore, economist and author Dambisa Moyo, Save the Children’s Kev...
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‘This is a once in a century, global – truly global – crisis’ – A health check on the global economy with the World Bank’s Chief Economist and President from 2020-09-16T17:15
“Even by the standards of systemic crises, this is a once in a century, global – truly global – crisis,” explains Carmen Reinhart, the World Bank’s newly-appointed Chief Economist, about the pandem...
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‘The Pandemic is Not Gender Neutral’ – How COVID-19 is Uniquely Threatening Women and Girls from 2020-08-27T17:15
On the latest edition of The Development Podcast, we explore the gender dynamics at play during the COVID-19 pandemic with the World Bank’s Global Director for Gender, Caren Grown.
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‘They rely on those remittances and without it, how can they live?’ – COVID projected to slash key lifeline for families in the developing world from 2020-07-23T10:00
In recent years, remittances were on the rise, playing an increasingly important role in global development. They eclipsed foreign aid in the ‘90s and surpassed foreign direct investment last year...
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‘Locking down an economy creates insolvency’ – The coronavirus’ impact on companies and jobs from 2020-06-24T19:00
Call it the “great lockdown”, the “coronavirus recession” or another moniker – whatever your label, the facts are clear: this unprecedented pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on the private...
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Crisis alongside crisis: Locust swarms threaten the food security and livelihoods of millions, while COVID-19 complicates response efforts from 2020-06-09T15:00
Millions of people’s food security and livelihoods are under threat from historic locust swarms that are decimating cropland in East Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. As affected countries w...
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‘We’re moving to the next stage’ – The risks, opportunities, and the road to recovery from COVID-19, with World Bank Group President David Malpass from 2020-05-29T10:00
As healthcare workers continue to tirelessly fight the coronavirus, countries around the globe are starting to look towards recovery from the pandemic.
In a special interview David Malpass, the...
More than a billion students aren’t in class – how do we educate during a pandemic? from 2020-05-12T05:00
As the coronavirus has rapidly spread around the globe just about every aspect of life is being disrupted – not least education, which was already in crisis. That begs the question: How do we educa...
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More than a billion students aren’t in class – how do we educate during a pandemic? from 2020-05-12T05:00
As the coronavirus has rapidly spread around the globe just about every aspect of life is being disrupted – not least education, which was already in crisis. That begs the question: How do we educa...
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As coronavirus spreads around the world, countries brace for impacts on their people, healthcare, and economies from 2020-03-11T13:30
Update: This episode was recorded in early March and makes several references to the World Bank’s fast-track financing facility to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since recording, the value ...
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Around the world, women on average have just three quarters of the economic rights of men from 2020-03-05T16:00
Just in time for International Women's Day, this special bonus episode the Development Podcast looks at Women, Business, and the Law - major research analyzing female economic inclusion worldwide.<...
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Already confronting undernutrition, many developing countries face a new threat: Obesity. from 2020-02-11T03:00
For decades, developing countries have faced the threats of undernutrition, stunting and starvation. While those problems haven’t gone away, incredible progress has been made. Now, a new threat loo...
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The best – and worst – places to start a business around the world from 2020-01-30T10:00
It's one of the most anticipated – and closely watched – reports in the world of entrepreneurship. Each year, the World Bank's "Doing Business" team analyzes and ranks – literally, like football st...
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