The podcast that discusses global current affairs with women leaders!
Ilana Bet-El chats with wonderfully qualified women experts from around the world in informal but in-depth conversations that explain, analyse and highlight events of the day.
Women Leaders brings incredibly well-informed perspectives to world events: not the news, but what the news means! From geopolitics to security, defence and wars, and from economics to journalism, media and disinformation, we bring context and insight to the rapid changes in the world.
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The podcast that discusses global current affairs with women leaders!
Ilana Bet-El chats with wonderfully qualified women experts from around the world in informal but in-depth conversations that explain, analyse and highlight events of the day.
Women Leaders brings incredibly well-informed perspectives to world events: not the news, but what the news means! From geopolitics to security, defence and wars, and from economics to journalism, media and disinformation, we bring context and insight to the rapid changes in the world.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Development is at an end according to renowned economist Adam Tooze. Given the fast moving events of our current circumstances, that could be a reference to the human condition as we know it. However, Tooze is writing about development as a correlate of foreign aid financing, which to many means rich states giving money to poor ones — an area that has undoubtedly taken a massive hit. Be it the sudden closure of USAID earlier this year or the shift of EU and NATO states to defence spending or indeed the populist inspired interest in isolationism, the inclination to fund others is diminishing.
But development is not just about foreign aid: it is also about allocating the means to improve the one to the benefit of all. Be it national eradication of disease or international drives towards better governance and prosperity, the core idea is not charity. So what is it? There can be no better person to explain and explore the wide and complex world of development and its core international function than Susan Brown, United Nations Assistant Secretary General at the UN Development Programme UNDP and head of its advocacy efforts. A woman with incredible experience of the international world, she brings in-depth knowledge, common sense and a lot of wit to the core needs of the world. A sharp and important conversation.
This episode was recorded 17 September 2025
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