{"podcast":{"title":"This Week in Global Development","slug":"this-week-in-global-development-6311778","podcast_index_feed_id":6311778,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5837438/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/this-week-in-global-development--5837438","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/71e7688b8237c333a8d8a3205a7a0671.jpg","author":"Devex","episode_count":216,"summary":"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 leading experts for insightful 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","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-global-development-6311778"},"episode":{"title":"Inside EIB’s critical meetings and USAID’s controversial shutdown","slug":"inside-eib-s-critical-meetings-and-usaid-s-controversial-shutdown","published_at":"2026-03-05T10:49:47+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-global-development-6311778/inside-eib-s-critical-meetings-and-usaid-s-controversial-shutdown","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-global-development-6311778","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/inside-eib-s-critical-meetings-and-usaid-s-controversial-shutdown--70477120","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70477120/devex_podcast_draft135_mixdown.mp3","summary":"This week, we are reporting from the European Investment Bank’s annual meetings in Luxembourg to better understand the direction in which the institution is heading. We dig into the agenda as Europe continues to balance defense and development spending. EIB President Nadia Calviño says the bank is “carrying the flag of development.” This comes as the bank pledged $1 billion for electrification in Africa, strengthened its commitment to health and gender, and launched its third Gender Action Plan. During the conversation, we also discuss the messy USAID closeout process . Despite hundreds of millions of dollars owed to former partners and a growing threat of litigation, sources say the Trump administration is stalling settlement payments and imposing unrealistic deadlines as it starves the agency’s legacy operations. To explore these stories and others, Senior Editor Rumbi Chakamba sits down with reporters Michael Igoe and Jesse Chase-Lubitz for the latest episode of our weekly podcast series. Sign up to the Devex Newswire and our other newsletters.","meta_description":"This week, we are reporting from the European Investment Bank’s annual meetings in Luxembourg to better understand the direction in which the institution…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1489,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-week-in-global-development-6311778/episodes/inside-eib-s-critical-meetings-and-usaid-s-controversial-shutdown/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-week-in-global-development-6311778/inside-eib-s-critical-meetings-and-usaid-s-controversial-shutdown.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}