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February 27, 2024

Development
Combating Global Poverty, With Kate Schecter

Kate Schecter, president and CEO of World Neighbors, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss progress and setbacks in promoting economic development in some of the world’s poorest countries.

Podcast Bangladeshi women count money for repayment to a microcredit bank at Dowtia village near Dhaka on January 20, 2004.

December 8, 2017

China
Podcast: Eradicating Poverty in China—An Impossible Task?

Despite sweeping reforms that have reduced rural poverty by 94 percent since 1980, more than 43 million people in China still live below the poverty line. To combat the widening income gap, the Chine…

Podcast Migrant worker Wang Jun carries scrap material she collected from debris of demolished buildings at the outskirts of Beijing, China October 1, 2017.

June 22, 2023

Guatemala
EU Leaders’ Summit, Biden Marks Abortion Ruling Anniversary, Guatemala’s Election, and More

Heads of state from the European Union’s twenty-seven members meet in Brussels to discuss support for Ukraine and new initiatives to coordinate defense, economics, and migration; the Biden administra…

Podcast A woman votes at a polling station during the first round of Guatemala's presidential election, in San Pedro Sacatepequez, Guatemala, June 16, 2019.

February 1, 2022

Economics
Venture Capital and the Future of Innovation, With Sebastian Mallaby

Sebastian Mallaby, CFR’s Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists are shaping the future of innov…

Podcast Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the new mini iPod available in five colors during a keynote address at Macworld January 6, 2004 in San Francisco.

December 11, 2020

Sub-Saharan Africa
The Future Is African

Projections show that by 2050, Africa’s population will double. By 2100, one in three people on Earth will be African. This means that, by the end of the century, sub-Saharan Africa—which already has…

Podcast Sudanese children walk on a street on July 6, 2016 in eastern Khartoum