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Can Public Procurement Contracts Predict the Future? Analyzing Procurement Data with Malcolm Duff
Season 3 Episode 21
Every day, governments publish thousands of notices announcing who won a public procurement contract, for how much and for how long. These notices ar…
18 hours ago
Is the era of EVs really green? A dialogue with Peter Bryant.
Season 3 Episode 20
The world produces around 25 million metric tons of copper a year and needs to almost double that within a decade to meet the growing demand of vario…
1 month, 1 week ago
Placebo or cure? Assessing the Net Zero reality of carbon credits with Paolo Vaggi
Season 3 Episode 19
As carbon credits swell into a multi-billion-dollar global market, a persistent illusion keeps fueling it: that buying a credit erases the pollution …
2 months ago
Cheap cures, fragile systems: Inside the ongoing fight to end neglected tropical diseases. A conversation with Dr. Wendy Harrison.
Season 3 Episode 18
Neglected tropical diseases affect more than 1.5 billion people, close to one in six worldwide, yet they remain among the least visible and mediatize…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Beyond Bottomless Wallets: The Strategic Reality of Gulf Economic Diplomacy. A Dialogue with Damyana Bakardzhieva
Season 3 Episode 17
As the ongoing U.S./Israel–Iran war reverberates across the region—affecting energy markets, transport routes, and economic stability in the Middle E…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Reclaiming Civic Space Amid Global Repression: A dialogue with Lotfullah Najafizada from Afghanistan ahead of the Ottawa Civic Space Summit
Season 3 Episode 16
In this episode of DevelopmentAid Dialogues, podcast host Hisham Allam spoke with Lotfullah Najafizada, an Afghan journalist and founder of Amu TV, a…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
From Starlink to Scarcity: Dialogue with Jonathan Criss—the SpaceX Engineer Solving Earth’s Water Crisis
Season 3 Episode 15
In this episode of Development Aid Dialogues, podcast host Hisham Allam spoke with Jonathan Criss, CEO and Founder of Vital Lyfe. After more than 13 …
6 months ago
Fadi Bou Ali: Green and Blue Bonds Between Promise and Hard Reality
Season 3 Episode 14
In this episode of Development Aid Dialogues, podcast host Hisham Allam interviewed Fadi Bou Ali, a sustainable finance specialist working at the int…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
NGOs: From Band-aids to Real Impact. Breaking Silos with NCA’s Linda Nordby
Season 3 Episode 13
Every year, the World NGO Day is a moment to recognize the work nonprofits and community-based organizations do in some of the world’s toughest place…
7 months, 1 week ago
Why big donors can’t deliver without NGOs: A dialogue with UNICEF’s Dara Johnston
Season 3 Episode 12
In this episode of Development Aid Dialogues—marking International NGO Day at the end of February—podcast host Hisham Allam interviewed Dara Johnston…
7 months, 3 weeks ago