This Week in Global Dev: #165: Building resilient systems in development finance and global health
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This Week in Global Dev: #165: Building resilient systems in development finance and global health

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 202628 min
  • Business & money

This week we are at Building Bridges, a conference aiming to bring different stakeholders together to build investable solutions to global challenges. We discuss the key topics at the summit, including how the private sector can be effectively engaged in social impact and making financial instruments accessible for smaller businesses. We are also looking ahead to the World Health Summit, which will center around the theme “From Crisis to Resilience: Innovating for Health.” From hearing from candidates for the WHO director-general role to the growing intersection of health and security, we highlight the key conversations and innovations we will be trac...

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My name is Rumbi Chakamba and you're listening to This Week in Global Development posted by myself, Adva Saldingar and David Aingsworth and I'm joined by Andrew Queen and Adva Saldingar. Adva, it's so nice to have you as a guest. It's really rare when we get to both be on the podcast at the same time. So it's really lovely to have you. And as much as I'm excited to have you,

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I feel really terrible for you because you have gone from anger to building bridges and then next three cases was to be at the World Bank and that sounds like a lot. So currently you're joining us with Geneva, which is exciting at the Building Bridges Conference. Can you tell us a little bit about Building Bridges? What conference is it about and what sort

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of players brought to Building Bridges? Yeah, so I mean, I think one of the things that I think is interesting about Building Bridges, you know, I mean, we're here in Geneva, Switzerland is obviously a place known for banking prowess. We think about Switzerland and Swiss banks and investors and institutional

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