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Governments in the global North have slashed aid budgets at a time when humanitarian needs have reached record levels, forcing a rethink on global aid and development.

In this podcast, co-hosted by humanitarian news agency Devex, we look at where things may go from here and what new models of cooperation might offer hope.

Hosts:

Robin Pomeroy, Radio Davos, World Economic Forum

Raj Kumar, This Week in Global Development, Devex

Guests:

Carla Haddad Mardini, Director, Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Julienne Oyler, CEO, Inkomoko

Links:

Humanitarian and Resilience Investing Initiative: https://initiatives.weforum.org/humanitarian-and-resilience-investing-initiative

Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship: www.schwabfound.org - look out for forthcoming report, Social Enterprise in Africa.

UNICEF: https://www.unicef.org/

Inkomoko: https://www.inkomoko.com/

Devex: https://www.devex.com/

Related podcasts:

This Week in Global Development: https://www.devex.com/news/this-week-in-global-development-106893

Superpower rivalry and geopolitics in Trump 2.0: https://wef.ch/4oOOsys

We have entered the age of "persistent disruption" - Visa's Wayne Best on the Chief Economists Outlook: http://wef.ch/4puuU3m

What you might get wrong about progress - Lessons for leaders: Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/steven-pinker-harvard-humanity-doing-better/

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How does the superpower rivalry between the US and China dictate international relations more broadly? And what does it mean for the future of trade, security and development?   Lyunn Kuok, Lee Kuan Yew, Chair in Southeast Asia Studies at the Brookings Institution, and a member of the Forum's Global Future Council on Geopolitics, analyses the state of the global relations almost a year into the second Donald Trump presidency.   This episode is a collaboration between the World Economic Forum's weekly Radio Davos and Beyond the Headlines, the flagship current affairs podcast of The National, the Middle East's leading English-language newspaper. It was recorded at the Forum's Annual Meetings of the Global Future Councils and Cybersecurity in Dubai on 15 October, 2025. It is co-hosted by Mina Al-Oraibi, The National's Editor-in-Chief.

Watch a video version of this podcast on our YouTube channel: https://wef.ch/43bySEO   Links: Network of Global Future Councils: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council
Global Future Council on Geopolitics: https://initiatives.weforum.org/global-future-council-on-geopolitics Annual Meetings of the Global Future Councils and Cybersecurity 2025: https://www.weforum.org/meetings/annual-meetings-of-the-global-future-councils-and-cybersecurity-2025/ The National: https://www.thenationalnews.com/   Related podcasts: Beyond the Headlines podcast: https://www.thenationalnews.com/podcasts/beyond-the-headlines/

Related Radio Davos episodes:

We have entered the age of "persistent disruption" - Visa's Wayne Best on the Chief Economists Outlook: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/chief-economists-outlook-visa-wayne-best/

"New era, new mood, new challenges" - historian Adam Tooze on why things will never be the same again: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/adam-tooze-cnbc-china-us-history/

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Welcome to this bonus episode of Radio Davos.

A few episodes ago we interviewed author and historian Adam Tooze about geopolitics. Adam has his own podcast, Ones & Tooze, published by Foreign Policy where he is also a columnist. We thought we would pop an episode on the Radio Davos feed so you can take a listen. In this episode, Adam and his co-host Foreign Policy deputy editor Cameron Abadi, look at the state of global development.

Radio Davos will be back very soon, in the meantime enjoy this episode of Ones and Tooze.

Ones and Tooze show notes:

Whither Global Development

Some 10 years ago, the United Nations came up with its Sustainable Development Goals, a series of objectives for the world around alleviating poverty and protecting the planet. But these days, it's clear that very few of those goals will be met by the target date of 2030. What happened? And what does the Trump administration's retreat from international development mean for the world? 

On this episode of Ones and Tooze, a weekly economics podcast from Foreign Policy magazine, hosts Adam Tooze and Cameron Abadi dig in.

New episodes of Ones and Tooze are released every Friday. Follow the show on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ones-and-tooze/id1584397047

https://open.spotify.com/show/44pekawcpIJ7KgwcFIgZDr

https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/

 

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Claude Marshall fled Nazi Germany as a small boy in the 1930s and now helps today's refugees by fundraising for sports facilities in refugee camps.

He tells Radio Davos why sport is so important for traumatised young people, and compares the plight of people today forced from their home with his own childhood experience.

Related links:

The World Economic Forum's Refugee Employment Alliance, co-chaired by the UNHCR and the Ingka Group,

Transcript available on the podcast episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/refugees-unhcr-sport-claude-marshall

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Can we prevent a repeat of COVID-19? In a new book, Disease X, author Kate Kelland looks at what we learned from the pandemic and how scientists, governments and societies can be better prepared for the next one.

Links

World Economic Forum's Website page for the "Centre for Health and Healthcare". https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-health-and-healthcare/home

Regional Vaccine Manufacturing Collaborative: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/regional-solution-to-vaccine-inequity-davos23/

Pathogen Surveillance Initiative: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/lets-bring-together-countries-and-corporations-to-grow-global-pathogen-surveillance-davos23/

Disease X: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Disease-X/Kate-Kelland/9781912454952

Related podcasts:

Meet the Leader:

Lessons that made AstraZeneca's Leif Johansson a better leader

Pfizer's CEO on what's next for vaccines, health equity and the COVID-19 pandemic

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The final episode of our AI series comes from the Annual Meeting of the New Champions (AMNC), the World Economic Forum's 'summer Davos', in Tianjin, China.

Cathy Li, head of AI at the World Economic Forum, says what needs to happen next as the world gets to grips with generative AI, and introduces the AI Governance Alliance.

And we listen in to discussions at AMNC about AI - the opportunities for business and implications for things such as medicine and education.

Follow AMNC here: https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023

Watch the AMNC sessions quoted in this episode:

Generative AI: Friend or Foe?

https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023/sessions/generative-ai-friend-or-foe

Keeping Up: AI Readiness Amid an AI Revolution

https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023/sessions/keeping-up-ai-readiness-amid-an-ai-revolution

A transcript is available on the episode page on our website: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/generative-ai-episode-5-amnc

Mentioned in this episode:

The Presidio Recommendations on Responsible Generative AI

AI Governance Alliance

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Amid pressures on the global economy from recent major crises and renewed turbulence in financial markets, stakeholders will need to convert the bright spots of accelerated trade and investment in green and innovative industries into a new paradigm for sustained growth.

How can both government and the private sector draw on the opportunities stemming from this time of change and transition to rewire the models underpinning global growth?

Speakers:

Zhang Yuzhuo, Chairman, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC)

Pham Minh Chinh, Prime Minister of Viet Nam

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organization (WTO)

Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados, Barbados Government

Chris Hipkins, Prime Minister of New Zealand

Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum

Transcript available at:

https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/agenda-dialogues/episodes/amnc23-braving-the-headwinds-rewiring-growth-amid-fragility

Read more:

https://www.weforum.org/events/annual-meeting-of-the-new-champions-2023/sessions/braving-the-headwinds-rewiring-growth-amid-fragility

Watch the session:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/06/top-leaders-discuss-managing-economic-hurdles-at-amnc23/

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In most parts of the world, the gender gap - the difference in opportunities and outcomes for women compared to men - is closing. But closing so slowly that it would take, at the current rate of progress, until 2154 for men and women to be truly equal.

That statistic comes from the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report, an extensive, annual survey whose latest edition has just been published.

In this episode, World Economic Forum Managing Director Saadia Zahidi picks some highlights from the report - which has lots to say about the state of gender inequality in the post-pandemic, cost-of-living squeezed world.

We also hear from Sue Duke, Vice-President of LinkedIn where she heads public policy.

Sue talks about the challenges facing women in the workplace, particularly in the area of STEM - science, technology, engineering and maths - and how tricky is still is for women to get to the top of companies (the 'C-suite').

For a transcript, go to the episode page: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/gender-gap-report-2023

Please note the final episode of our AI series will be published next week.

Read more on the Gender Gap Report:

Get the report here: https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2023

Analysis:

Economic shocks are wiping out progress on gender equality: Global Gender Gap Report 2023, by Sue Duke

These are the world's most gender-equal countries

Economic shocks are wiping out progress on gender equality: Global Gender Gap Report 2023

Gender parity is essential for economic recovery: These five investments will quicken the pace

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"AI will have some form of intelligence that will either compete with us or augment us. This is a question for us as a species. For the past thousands of years, we didn't have a cousin or a brother and now we may have one. So it is how we understand that and how we deal with it."

On Episode 4 of our special series on generative AI, we consider the options for how we can govern the rapidly growing technology.

Guests: Amir Banifatemi, Director, AI Commons; Cyrus Hodes Co-Founder of AIGC Chain and Stability AI, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Co-host: Lucia Velasco, Lead, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, World Economic Forum

Transcript available at: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/generative-ai-episode-4-governance

Previous episodes in this series: Episode 1

AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

Episode 2

A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using

Episode 3

Responsible AI: how can philosophy help us make better tech?

Related podcasts:

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

Davos 2023: A conversation with Satya Nadella

COVID transformed the world of work, but AI's impact will be much bigger

The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start

10 Leaders from Google, LinkedIn and More on Reskilling for the Future of Work

Related video:

https://www.weforum.org/videos/3-leading-thinkers-on-how-to-make-ai-work-for-humanity

Links:

The Presidio Recommendations on Responsible Generative AI: https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Presidio_Recommendations_on_Responsible_Generative_AI_2023.pdf

The World Economic Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home

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The rise of generative artificial intelligence raises a lot of philosophical questions. So can philosophy help us make AI that serves humanity for the good?

On this episode we hear from 'applied ethicist' Cansu Canca, AI Ethics Lead at the Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University, USA; and from Sara Hooker, head of Cohere For AI, a research lab that seeks to solve complex machine learning problems.

Full transcript available at: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/generative-ai-episode-3-ethics

Previous episodes in this series: Episode 1

AI: Why everyone's talking about the promise and risks of this 'powerful wild beast'

Episode 2

A common good? The companies making the AI products we'll soon all be using

Related podcasts:

The rise of AI and the green transition will transform the way we work: Future of Jobs Report 2023

Davos 2023: A conversation with Satya Nadella

COVID transformed the world of work, but AI's impact will be much bigger

The golden age of AI: why ChatGPT is just the start

10 Leaders from Google, LinkedIn and More on Reskilling for the Future of Work

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The World Economic Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/home

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