Global Development Interrupted
Hosted by Leah and Leah Petit · The People, the Work, and What Was Lost When America Stepped Back
5.0from 45 ratings
- 30
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 45
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About Global Development Interrupted
Global Development Interrupted creates space for voices, perspectives, and critical reflection on global development. By amplifying the experiences of people who have built their careers in public service and global work, it invites learning, dialogue, and reimagining of what global development is, was, and could be. globaldevinterrupted.substack.com (https://globaldevinterrupted.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- The People, the Work, and What Was Lost When America Stepped Back
- Category
- government · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Sept 2025
- Latest episode
- 10 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
8 of 30 episodes have a transcript.
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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What Do Markets Have to Do with It?
Published 10 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We take it so for granted. You wouldn't even contemplate. How do you build an economy without power? How do you study when the lights go down? How do you go to the hospital when it's dark? How do you do any of this stuff without power? I mean, an absolutely basic fundamental building block to human development. And so for Power Africa, this was an initiative that USAID led and you were the lead in this. Am I correct? At some point, yes. Not the first lead. Not the first lead. Yeah, no, I mean, there's a lot of great people. It's a team effort. But yeah, I was a coordinator when COVID hit. So I took on Power Africa about, I don't know, four or three, four weeks after we all went home and didn't come back for a long, long time. […]
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- Mark Carrato
- Hadas Kushnir
- Monica Bansal
- Apoorva Jadhav
- Amy Hamelin
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- 30 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 15 ratings
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Leah and Leah Petit host the show. Published by The People, the Work, and What Was Lost When America Stepped Back.
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