This Week in Global Dev: #166: Live from Bangkok: An update from the World Bank and IMF annual meetings
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This Week in Global Dev: #166: Live from Bangkok: An update from the World Bank and IMF annual meetings

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 15, 202622 min

This week we are coming to you live from Devex Impact House, our summit on the sidelines of the World Bank and IMF annual meetings. We unpack the bank’s push for “small AI” in developing countries to avoid the considerable costs of building data center architecture, while weighing the risks of deepening technological dependency on the U.S. and China. Alongside exploring the institution’s drive for private capital mobilization, we also note a shift in how it approaches climate change. Despite a year of extreme weather emergencies, the World Bank has dropped its 45% finance target in favor of broader...

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My name is Advas Saldinger and you're listening to this week in global development hosted by myself, Rumi Chakamba and David Ainsworth. What you're about to hear is a live recording of our weekly podcast and this week I come to you from Bangkok, Thailand where I have been covering the World Bank IMF annual meetings and I am here today at the DevX Impact House event with my colleague

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Jesse Chase-Libitz and we have been traipsing around Bangkok and making our way through the maze of the conference center where the main event is happening. And so I wanted to just sit down with you

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and get some of your reflections of the week and we can talk a little bit about what we're seeing. And to start the week, we saw a big event that the bank did on AI.

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