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The World Bank recently released its “Evolution Roadmap”, aimed at responding more efficiently to growing poverty reduction needs and better addressing climate change challenges. While the roadmap provides a good starting point — outlining the evolution of the bank's mission, operations and financing model — it falls short in providing concrete and detailed strategies to achieve an ambitious reform. To discuss the roadmap and the future of the World Bank, Deputy Director of the Lowy Institute's Indo-Pacific Development Centre Alexandre Dayant sat with Manuela V. Ferro, the World Bank Vice President for East Asia and Pacific. An economist and engineer by training, Ms Ferro has more than 25 years of hands-on and leadership experience in Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. She has shaped creative development solutions for multiple and diverse countries, from post-conflict low-income nations to upper middle-income states.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this conversation, Sadhguru and Annette Dixon, World Bank Vice President for the South Asia Region, discuss solutions to bring wellbeing to the world, including issues of poverty, population and education, as well as changing the face of leadership and raising human consciousness.#Sadhguru

In this conversation, Sadhguru and Annette Dixon, World Bank Vice President for the South Asia Region, discuss solutions to bring wellbeing to the world, including issues of poverty, population and education, as well as changing the face of leadership and raising human consciousness.#SadhguruConscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org Sadhguru App (Download): http://onelink.to/sadhguru__appOfficial Sadhguru Website: http://isha.sadhguru.orgSadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusiveSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The convergence of the second largest refugee crisis in the world and the COVID-19 pandemic has left the more than 5.5 million migrants who have fled Venezuela in an even more vulnerable position. Lacking access to health care and often on the edge of poverty, these migrants and refugees have faced unprecedented challenges as the pandemic swept the globe, shutting down borders, taxing public-health systems, and leaving an economic downturn in its wake. The public-health crisis has also taxed the host governments trying to provide humanitarian assistance and avenues for migration for Venezuelans in the region. In this World Bank-MPI webinar, speakers--including MPI President Andrew Selee, Canada's Minister of International Development Karina Gould, Colombian President Advisor Alejandra Botero, World Bank Vice President for Latin America Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, Vice President, Inter-American Development Bank's Felipe Munoz, U.S. State Department's Nancy Izzo Jackson, and Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs Allan Wagner--examined national and regional efforts to integrate Venezuelans in ways that maximize their human-capital contributions and ability to drive economic growth in their host countries. The discussion also considered how the international community can mobilize to transform this crisis into a development opportunity for the region.

Ian Goldin, a founding Director of the Oxford Martin School, was previously World Bank Vice President and the Group’s Director of Policy. Positions held include Chief Executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and Economic Advisor to President Nelson Mandela. Ian has been knighted by the French Government and has published 21 books, including Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance and The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks. He has been a Non-Executive Director on numerous boards, the Senior Independent Director on CDC, is a Trustee of Comic Relief and the Chair of CORE-Econ initiative to modernise the teaching of economics.

World Bank Vice President for Africa, Makhtar Diop, discusses the regions slowing growth amid weak global financial conditions. Africa's slowing growth is one of the findings of the Fall 2015 Africa's Pulse Report, a biannual publication of The World Bank that analyses issues shaping Africa's economic future.

World Bank Vice President for Africa, Makhtar Diop, discusses the importance of The Bank's support for the development of Ghana's SANKOFA Gas Project.

As in past years, the Development Policy Centre hosted a forum to discuss and debate recent Australian aid evaluations. This year we focused on the new annual report on Australian aid Performance of Australian Aid 2013-14 and on two recent evaluations from the Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) on Australia’s responses to humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa and Syria. We heared from ODE and the Chair of the ODE’s Independent Evaluation Committee. Speakers included: Mr Jim Adams Chair of DFAT’s Independent Evaluation Committee and former World Bank Vice President. Mr Scott Dawson First Assistant Secretary, Contracting and Aid Management Division, DFAT. Mr Simon Ernst Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT. Professor Stephen Howes Director of the Development Policy Centre and Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU. Mr Jamie Isbister Acting First Assistant Secretary of the Humanitarian Division, DFAT. Dr Karen Ovington Assistant Director for the Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT. Mr Dereck Rooken-Smith Assistant Secretary for the Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT. Ms Joanna Spratt PhD Candidate, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU. This forum was presented by the Development Policy Centre at Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.

As in past years, the Development Policy Centre hosted a forum to discuss and debate recent Australian aid evaluations. This year we focused on the new annual report on Australian aid Performance of Australian Aid 2013-14 and on two recent evaluations from the Office of Development Effectiveness (ODE) on Australia’s responses to humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa and Syria. We heared from ODE and the Chair of the ODE’s Independent Evaluation Committee. Speakers included: Mr Jim Adams Chair of DFAT’s Independent Evaluation Committee and former World Bank Vice President. Mr Scott Dawson First Assistant Secretary, Contracting and Aid Management Division, DFAT. Mr Simon Ernst Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT. Professor Stephen Howes Director of the Development Policy Centre and Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU. Mr Jamie Isbister Acting First Assistant Secretary of the Humanitarian Division, DFAT. Dr Karen Ovington Assistant Director for the Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT. Mr Dereck Rooken-Smith Assistant Secretary for the Office of Development Effectiveness, DFAT. Ms Joanna Spratt PhD Candidate, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU.

The Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) was established in 2008, initially as a pilot, then in 2012 as a permanent program, to help meet the labour needs in Australia’s horticultural sector and to provide labour mobility opportunities to Pacific islanders. Despite continuing growth, the SWP remains small in comparison both to the overall number of workers operating in the sectors it covers and to New Zealand’s equivalent Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme. For the SWP, the binding constraint remains low employer demand. Why aren’t more employers demanding SWP workers? And what reforms would increase employer demand? Jesse Doyle from The World Bank and Stephen Howes from ANU presented findings from a joint World Bank-ANU survey undertaken in 2014 of employers and industry associations across the Australian horticulture industry, and it was followed by a panel discussion with stakeholders involved with seasonal migration. Mr Axel van Trotsenburg, World Bank Vice President for East Asia and Pacific, chaired this public forum.