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Theory of Change: #19: How to talk about failure

Special edition: How deep partnership with Haitian communities redefines possibility

This Week in Global Dev: #166: Live from Bangkok: An update from the World Bank and IMF annual meetings

Theory of Change: #18: The lessons and warnings of PEPFAR

This Week in Global Dev: Live from Berlin: Key takeaways from the World Health Summit

Special edition: Why Are Money and Systems Failing Disability?

Special Episode: Can the Global Summit for Eye Health Make Vision Impossible to Ignore?

Theory of Change: #17: Zipline's global drone delivery vision

This Week in Global Dev: #165: Building resilient systems in development finance and global health

AI in practice: Bridging the implementation gap

Special edition: Reimagining financing for development and growth

#164: This Week in Global Dev: Inside the US global health overhaul and Buffett's philanthropic strategy

Special Episode: The Power to Decide: Reclaiming Sovereignty in a Digital Era

Theory of Change: #16: Live from UNGA with Buddy Shah

Global Progress in the AI era: As Anthropic urges caution on AI, its ‘beneficial deployments’ work grows

This Week in Global Dev: #163: Live from UNGA: Navigating the new era of multilateralism

Theory of Change: #15: Live from UNGA with David Beasley

This Week in Global Dev: #162: The Gates Foundation's latest AI pledge, and a look ahead to UNGA 81

Theory of Change: #14: Is the global humanitarian system collapsing?

Special edition: The real funding gap isn't money

This Week in Global Dev: #161: Bypassing the traditional aid system: The big bet to end starvation

Theory of Change: #13: Is it OK to take 'tainted money'?

This Week in Global Dev; #160: The fight over $7.5B in expiring aid and a rejected State Department grant

Theory of Change: #11: Can communities help refugees where governments fail?

This Week in Global Dev: #159: The water sector’s funding challenge and Asia’s philanthropy push

Theory of Change: #12: What does 'country ownership' really mean?

Special edition: Rethinking the housing crisis

This Week in Global Dev: #158: Famine reporting goes dark in 3 crisis zones, and COP31’s critical test

Theory of Change: #10: Is impact investing due for a reckoning?

This Week in Global Dev: #157: Inside the State Department's pivot to faith-based organizations

Special edition: Are jobs for youth development's silver bullet?

Theory of Change: #9: Mark Dybul says this was never the plan for PEPFAR

This Week in Global Dev: #156: Tracking the real-world impacts of US foreign aid cuts

Theory of Change: #8: How Kakenya Ntaiya turned pain into progress

This Week in Global Dev: #155: The new era of US and European foreign assistance

Theory of Change: #7: Jim Richardson believes we can still agree about US foreign aid

This Week in Global Dev: #154: Turning World Cup hype into impact and governing AI for good

Theory of Change: #6: Ebere Okereke believes global health is about power

This Week in Global Dev: #153: Uncertainty over UNAIDS’ future and avoiding sexual abuse in Ebola response

This Week in Global Dev: #152: US aid leadership changes and a controversial UN merger

Special edition: Live from Hamburg: Can governments still invest in the future?

Special edition: The blueprint for better lung cancer screening

Theory of Change: #5: Why Rachel Kyte doesn’t listen to climate polls

This Week in Global Dev: #151: Live from London Climate Action Week

Theory of Change: #4: William Easterly still believes development is freedom

This Week in Global Dev: #150: Fact-checking US aid claims as the State Department continues to hire

Theory of Change: #3: Gayle Smith on the next fight for foreign aid

This Week in Global Dev: #149: Development banks pivot strategies as global volatility deepens

Theory of Change: #2: Seth Berkley has seen our pandemic future

This Week in Global Dev: #148: The latest on the Ebola outbreak response

Theory of Change: #1: How Alexander Berger weighs the world’s biggest problems

This Week in Global Dev: #147: Can domestic resources and private capital fund development?

This Week in Global Dev: #146: Live from the World Health Assembly

Special edition: Early detection in Brazil is a game changer for lung cancer care

This Week in Global Dev: #145: What can we expect from the 79th World Health Assembly?

Special edition: Turning sustainable energy into a viable asset class in Africa

This Week in Global Dev: #144: Inside the corruption scandal that tarnished the UN

Global Progress in the AI Era: What happens when AI labs and social enterprises build together?

This Week in Global Dev: #143: Reform or be defunded: The Trump administration’s demands for the UN

This Week in Global Dev: #142: The new world order of aid: Inside the Skoll World Forum

Special Episode: Visionomics - How Eyeglasses Drive Economic Growth

Global Progress in the AI Era: The future of AI will be decided by small choices with big stakes

This Week in Global Dev: #141: Inside the World Bank Spring Meetings

Special Episode: Every Crisis is Political - Redefining Humanitarian Response

This Week in Global Dev: #140: A look at the United States' new foreign aid strategy

Special episode: Breast cancer as a global development challenge

This Week in Global Dev: #139: Unpacking UK’s new aid strategy and World Bank’s approach to water

#138: PEPFAR, Global Fund, and the future of HIV care

What will it take to reverse HIV in Eastern Europe and Central Asia?

This Week in Global Dev: #137: Latin America and Africa paths diverge amid global shocks

Global Progress in the AI Era: How GiveDirectly is using AI to deliver cash faster

Global Progress in the AI Era: Why investing in evidence is key to translating AI hype into impact

This Week in Global Dev: 136: Inside CSW: What is at stake for gender equality?

Global Progress in the AI Era: Can a new effort scale AI for good to reach hundreds of millions?

This Week in Global Dev: #135: Inside EIB’s critical meetings and USAID’s controversial shutdown

Global Progress in the AI Era: How the global south can finance AI infrastructure on its own terms

This Week in Global Dev: #134: Key takeaways from the AI Impact Summit & philanthropy under scrutiny

Global Progress in the AI Era: Governing the AI moment

This Week in Global Dev: #133: What we learned at the AU Summit and Munich Security Conference

This Week in Global Dev: #132: What is the impact of aid cuts in Africa?

#131: The new power players

Special Edition: Elevating oral health on the global agenda

This Week in Global Dev: #130: US aid restrictions, & those left behind in era of self-interest

Special Episode: BCG on scaling global impact in an era of constraints

This Week in Globaal Dev: #129: The latest from the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos

This Week in Global Dev: #128: Inside the US foreign aid breakthrough and $2B commitment to the UN

This Week in Global Dev: #127: What does 2026 hold for global development?

This Week in Global Dev: #126: Forget quiet quitting, the State Dept appears to be quiet hiring

This Week in Global Dev: #125: Kenya’s new deals with the US, and the latest on food aid cuts

This Week in Global Dev: #124: Impact of HIV funding cuts, and the rise of digital public infrastructure

This Week in Global Dev: #123: G20 politics, and the future of UNHCR

This Week in Global Dev: #122: Trump’s approach to global health, and the latest from COP30

Special edition: Can AI support mental health?

This Week in Global Dev: #121: On the Ground at COP30: The latest on climate finance

Special Episode: Innovation in Action - Scaling Climate Solutions from the Ground Up

This Week in Global Dev: #120: After 2025’s ‘seismic’ shock, what’s next for development and aid?

This Week in Global Dev: #119: The potential exodus of NGOs from the US, and the rise of authoritarianism

Special episode: Pivotal Ventures on Funding the Future of Women’s Health

This Week in Global Dev: #118: The impact of aid cuts: UN reform and the role of philanthropy

This Week in Global Dev: #117: Live from the World Bank annual meetings: The debates dominating Washington