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The Development Podcast brings together the latest data, research and cutting-edge solutions that can pave the way to a sustainable future – everything from poverty to climate change, education to nutrition, and a whole lot more. We’ll take you on a journey around the world of international developm...
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What Do Shifting Demographics Mean For Future Development?
The world's population growth tells two stories: in many countries populations are aging, while in others, populations are getting younger. Projection...
Powering More With Less: All You Need To Know About Energy Efficiency | The Development Podcast
How can energy-efficient light bulbs, bricks, and buildings cut costs and improve energy security?
In this episode of The Development Podcast,...
De-Risking Development: All You Need To Know About Guarantees | The Development Podcast
Risk is all around us, an inherent part of life. And in the world of development, there are also risks, including war, civil disturbance and expropria...
Why Digital Transformation Matters | The Development Podcast
The digital world is developing at a phenomenal pace. From AI tools at our fingertips, to advancements in energy, consumer technology, and connectivit...
Jobs: The Path to Prosperity | The Development Podcast
With 1.2 billion young people in emerging economies reaching working age over the next decade—and only about 420 million jobs expected to be generated...
Improving the Lives of Women in Artisanal Small-Scale Mining | The Development Podcast
To mark Women’s Month we’re digging into an often overlooked, but critical sector for the global economy, and for many millions of women: Artisanal an...
Mission 300: Powering Development in Sub-Saharan Africa | The Development Podcast
Many of us take turning on a light switch or connecting our devices to a home Wi-Fi network for granted. If our phones need charging, we plug them in,...
2024 in Review and the Challenges Ahead | The Development Podcast
As the world approaches the quarter way point of the 21st century, we take stock of the last year in development and the challenges ahead. And we retu...
IDA: Why Does the International Development Association Work? And How? | The Development Podcast
The International Development Association (IDA) is the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s low-income countries. IDA's grants and low-intere...
Annual Meetings 2024: How We've Progressed and What's Next? | The Development Podcast
The International Monetary Fund-World Bank Group 2024 Annual Meetings marked a turn of the page to the next phase of our mission: Ensuring job creatio...
Keeping Score: Measuring Impact in Development | The Development Podcast
As the old saying goes, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. But of course, what you measure is important too. In this episode of The Develo...
Journey to a Livable Planet | The Development Podcast
Creating a world free of poverty on a livable planet has been the vision and mission of the World Bank Group since October 2023. But what does it mean...
What Does Artificial Intelligence Mean for the Developing World? | The Development Podcast
Does artificial intelligence amount to a dystopian nightmare for the developing world, eliminating jobs and confirming the worse biases across societi...
Forests: How Can We Prosper in Harmony With Nature? | The Development Podcast
Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate of 10 million hectares each year and about 12% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are attributed to...
Spring Meetings 2024: From Vision to Impact | The Development Podcast
The 2024 World Bank Group-IMF Spring Meetings took place from April 11-18. The focus for this year was on how the World Bank Group can turn its vision...
The Journey Towards Gender Equality: Are Laws on the Books Enough? | The Development Podcast
As the world celebrates International Womens Day, we take a look at where we are on the march towards gender equality. How big is the gender gap and w...
What Is a Green Job? | The Development Podcast
The transition away from fossil fuels could create as many as 30 million ‘green’ jobs in clean energy and low-emissions technologies by 2030. So what...
How Can We Better Support Refugees | The Development Podcast
Forced displacement is a development challenge, not only a humanitarian concern. As of September 2023, 114 million people were displaced, and this num...
Tackling the Climate Crisis | The Development Podcast
The 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP 28) comes at the heels of the hottest year in human history. Our newest episode of The Development Podcast ...
Annual Meetings 2023: A New Vision for Challenging Times | The Development Podcast
The 2023 World Bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings took place from October 9-15 in Marrakech, Morocco, and unveiled the Bank’s bold new vision: creating a...
Tackling Food Insecurity: From Emergency to Resilience | The Development Podcast
Multiple shocks – from COVID-19 to climate change, conflict, crop disease – are crippling food systems, leading to higher food prices and growing hung...
How Do We Support the World’s Poorest Countries? | The Development Podcast
Meet the International Development Association (IDA), the arm of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries—75 to be exact. It’s the larg...
The Interlocking Challenges of Climate Change and Poverty | The Development Podcast
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...
On the Move: The Migration Challenge
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...
Spring Meetings 2023: Toward a New Era
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, persist...
Everyday Superheroes: Exploring Unpaid Care Work By Women
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 The...
Challenges Without Borders: Confronting Crises Around the World
In this episode of The Development Podcast, we mark one year of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and explore the depth and breadth of fragility, conflict...
Why Have Smaller States Been Hit So Hard by Economic Shocks?
The recently released January edition of this year’s Global Economic Prospects report warns that the global economy is dangerously close to a recessio...
2022 in Review: A Year of Uncertainty
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...
Why Are We Witnessing the Biggest Setback to Global Poverty Reduction in Decades?
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-y...
Highlights from the 2022 World Bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings: Navigating an Uncertain World
This year’s World Bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings took place against the backdrop of a series of overlapping crises threatening catastrophic consequenc...
From Coal to Clean Energy: Protecting People Through the Transition
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 co...