This Week in Global Development
Hosted by Kate Warren and Adva Saldinger and David Ainsworth and Rumbi Chakamba · Devex | Global Development
4.7from 29 ratings
- 247
- Episodes
- 69
- Transcribed
- 29
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 3M
- YouTube views
About This Week in Global Development
Dive into the week's most critical global development news with the This Week in Global Development podcast. In each episode, hosts Adva Saldinger, David Ainsworth, and Rumbi Chakamba break down major headlines and invite members of the Devex newsroom to share their expert analysis. Get up-to-date on news regarding foreign aid, humanitarian crises, the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals, finance, philanthropy, climate, food systems, global health, and stay informed on the latest trends and policy changes shaping global development. Episodes are published every Friday and can also be watched on YouTube. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@devex Sign up to the Devex Newswire and our other newsletters: https://www.devex.com/account/newsletters (https://www.devex.com/account/newsletters)
- Publisher
- Devex | Global Development
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 Apr 2023
- Latest episode
- 9 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
69 of 247 episodes have a transcript.
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Beyond World Sight Day: Can the Global Summit for Eye Health Make Vision Impossible to Ignore?
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Building resilient systems in development finance and global health
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Special Edition: AI in practice: Bridging the implementation gap
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Beyond World Sight Day: Can the Global Summit for Eye Health Make Vision Impossible to Ignore?
Published 9 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah. And so, Amanda, there I believe is 1.1 billion people living with vision loss. And so, you know, when you look at that scale, to Ross's point, you know the tools, you know the solutions. What are the greatest opportunities to accelerate what we already know what works and what needs to happen to just be able to do more of it in more places? Yeah, I think that's a great question, Kate. As Ross mentioned, there's incredible progress that's been made in this sector, but unfortunately, the numbers are getting away from us. So if you look back in 1990, there were half a billion people that had uncorrected vision impairment. 2020, it's just over a billion. […]
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- Ross Piper
- Amanda Davis
- Andrew Green
- Renee Laverdiere
- Kate Hampton
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- 3,165,385
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 17 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 12 ratings
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- 99
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 85
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