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The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

There's still time to submit papers on public finance and development for our 8th World Bank / ODI Global / IFS Public Finance Conference in Washington DC this September. 🖥️ Find out more and submit papers here by Friday 15 May: www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...

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ODI Global @odi.global · 10/02/2026

By 2030, 60% of people living in extreme poverty will be based in conflict-affected and fragile states. But aid often fails to reach people in these areas of greatest need. ⚠️ Join our event on 25 Feb (in London or online) to reimagine financing in conflict-affected settings: odi.org/en/events/fi...

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ODI Global @odi.global · 09/02/2026

China has been a major financier of African infrastructure, but its role is changing. Drawing on case studies in Angola, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya and Zambia – across hydropower, rail, digital and renewable energy sectors – new research provides policy lessons for today's investors: buff.ly/a9JlUoO

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Wilton Park @wiltonpark.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

💬 ‘They have this amazing capacity and expertise for managing the world’s oceans.’ Ruth Davis on why small island developing states (SIDS) are key to building healthier oceans around the world. 🤝 @odi.global I UK FCDO I RESI #biodiversity #conservation

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Humanitarian Policy Group @hpg-odiglobal.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The aid sector is rapidly changing, with a diverse 'ecosystem' of actors with different values, motivations & approaches. So what makes humanitarian action legitimate in today’s world – and who gets to decide? Share your views in this bold new digital consultation: buff.ly/w64j7G3 💬

What makes humanitarian action legitimate in today’s world – and who gets to decide?

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ODI Global @odi.global · 29/01/2026

How can aid better support people in conflict-affected countries? Join experts in education, health & social protection next month to explore why current aid systems fall short – and what could work better. 🔗 Register: buff.ly/rGuea7T

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Sara Pantuliano @sara-pantuliano.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Is the #BrettonWoods system still fit for today’s world? 🌍` Join @odi.global on 29 Jan (London & online) as a stellar panel of experts dissect the future of the #IMF & #WorldBank at a time of geopolitical shifts, climate shocks and rising financing needs. Sign up: odi.org/en/events/br...

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Prachi Agarwal @prachiagarwal.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Our article is now live! One year in, US tariffs have delivered higher costs at home, limited reshoring, and few clear winners. Strong politics, weak economics. Read the evidence here: theconversation.com/after-a-year... #TradePolicy #Economics #Tariffs #EvidenceBasedPolicy @odi.global

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After a year of Trump, who are the winners and losers from US tariffs?

The use of tariffs to try to rebalance trade has been a central plank of Trump 2.0 economic policy. But has it worked?

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Wilton Park @wiltonpark.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

🗨️ 'We are not small, actually - we are big ocean states.' Speaking at the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Future Forum, Karuna Rana explains why local communities are at the forefront of solutions to global ocean challenges, & why their work must be supported. 🤝 @odi.global I UK FCDO I RESI

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Mark Lattimer @mglattimer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Here with UN SR Francesca Albanese at @odi.global “Absolutely Israel should pay reparations for the occupation — and those other countries who are complicit by sending arms.”

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ODI Global @odi.global · 15/12/2025

Social protection is one of the most effective tools against hunger and poverty. External financing can help build and sustain these systems but needs better coordination. Join us tomorrow to launch a new report that proposes a virtual mechanism for fair, efficient financing: buff.ly/EN7TsJ7 🔗

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ODI Global @odi.global · 03/12/2025

Is AI a threat or an opportunity for small islands? A fascinating and urgent discussion from our Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI) on this week of the #SmallIslandsBigPicturePodcast. Listen now: buff.ly/nA1QpTg 🎧

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ODI Global @odi.global · 27/11/2025

As part of the @CommonsIDC inquiry into the future of the UK’s aid programmes, Freddie Carver, Director of our Humanitarian Policy Group, recently provided evidence – warning that chronic fragile settings are at serious risk. Watch part of his intervention below. 👇

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Humanitarian Policy Group @hpg-odiglobal.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

🗓️ The aid system is losing legitimacy. Join us for our Annual Event on 4 Dec as we explore how humanitarians can rebuild a narrative that admits flaws, shifts power to marginalised voices and defends core principles – while resonating with both donors & crisis-affected communities → buff.ly/9p4ZKZG

HPG Annual Event 2025

Humanitarian aid at a crossroads: making the case for global solidarity

Thursday 4 December
In-person (London, UK) & online
18:15-19:30pm (GMT)

Speakers:
Moderator: Patrick Gathara (The New Humanitarian)
Shahin Ashraf MBE (Islamic Relief Worldwide)
Adelina Kamal (Southeast Asian Women Peace Mediators (SEAWPM))
Ben Phillips (The Public Good Narrative Project)

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ODI Global @odi.global · 24/11/2025

Join our special event tomorrow with leaders of Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms – a courageous grassroots movement redefining what citizen-led humanitarian action looks like. We'll hear insights about Sudan's trajectory & the future of aid. Sign up to join in London/online: odi.org/en/events/th...

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Brianna Craft @briannacraft.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

What can leaders at #COP30 do to further gender equality & climate action? For @odi.global, I’ve written up five outcomes to watch for: odi.org/en/insights/... The UN climate negotiations face strong political headwinds, but progress which ignores inequality is an illusion.

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Five ways COP30 could advance gender and climate justice

Amidst a global backlash against gender equality, how could COP30 advance gender and climate justice?

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ODI Global @odi.global · 10/11/2025

China's investments in Africa's power sector are shifting towards green and renewable technologies. What does this mean for energy transition and security? Join our upcoming webinar on 18 November: buff.ly/Cbj7PZW 🗓️

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ODI Global @odi.global · 06/11/2025

With #COP30 around the corner, we're back with our COP blog series! We'll be posting daily insights on the negotiations as they unfold in Belém. First up: Sarah Colenbrander and Shandelle Steadman explore how the world's superpowers are influencing global climate action and implications for COP30.

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COP30 in an age of superpowers: How Trump, Xi and Putin are shaping climate action

Russia, the US and China are shaping global climate action. Over the next two weeks in Belém, countries will attempt to advance the international climate agenda despite their profound and outsized inf...

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 04/11/2025

🎧: In this podcast ep about the future of foreign aid, sponsored by ASI, @ellenhalliday.bsky.social talks to @odi.global’s @aprizzon.bsky.social, ASI’s Daniel Pimlott, and @blavatnikschool.bsky.social’s @gamblingondev.bsky.social.

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The future of aid

Daniel Pimlott, Annalisa Prizzon and Stefan Dercon on the changing dynamics of foreign aid

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

💡 Is a new paradigm emerging for development cooperation and humanitarian policy? Top scholars explore this in a joint special issue of @odi.global’s Development Policy Review and Disasters. Read more 👉 buff.ly/FkGsQQD

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ODI Global @odi.global · 27/10/2025

Foreign aid is declining as global defence spending soars. But does ever-growing military expenditure really make us secure? Join us in London or online on 12 Nov for the launch of a new UN report, "The Security We Need", which analyses these trade-offs. With insights from Izumi Nakamitsu.

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The security we need: rebalancing military spending for a sustainable and peaceful future

This launch event brings together policymakers, academics, civil society, and media to discuss the findings and implications of the UN report, and to explore alternative frameworks of security grounde...

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ODI Global @odi.global · 24/10/2025

How do Ministries of Finance organise to use evidence in decision-making? Our new research maps how evidence is produced and applied in the research and policy units of 4 African finance ministries It provides actionable insights to strengthen how evidence is used in fiscal governance. 📑

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Inside research and policy units: how four African Ministries of Finance structure evidence use

This working paper is part of ODI Global’s research on the institutional capabilities of finance ministries, under the Evidence Use in Finance Ministries series.

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ODI Global @odi.global · 21/10/2025

Aid cuts are threatening humanitarian monitoring, but AI-based models should never replace hunger monitoring systems. Read more in this new article in @the-independent.com, featuring insights from our Senior Research Fellow Simon Levine ⤵️

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Humanitarian Policy Group @hpg-odiglobal.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

⚠️ Early-warning and early-response (EWER) systems have become vital tools for preventing violence – but is enough being done to ensure they truly protect civilians? Find out more in this new briefing from HPG's @verobarbelet.bsky.social & @odi.global's Leigh Mayhew: buff.ly/PkXwBqL

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Early warning and early response to violence for civilian safety and security

This briefing note explores how early-warning and early-response (EWER) systems have been implemented in response to violence and conflict, and for the purpose of reducing harm and increasing the…

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ODI Trade and Economic Development @odi-trade.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

How will geopolitical fragmentation reshape global finance and impact emerging markets? Join us at the ODI–CGF–AERC Conference to explore how geopolitical tensions are reshaping capital flows, investment priorities & economic development globally. 🔗Register now @odi.global: odi.org/en/events/gl...

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ODI Global @odi.global · 17/10/2025

In a new blog, @martaforesti.bsky.social (Chair, Global Creative Economy Council (GCEC) & Senior Visiting Fellow, ODI Global), makes the case for putting the creative economy at the heart of global economic policy-making. The GCEC is a partnership of the British Council & @creativepec.bsky.social.

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ODI Global @odi.global · 15/10/2025

We're partnering with UNDP to host a conversation on how AI can be shaped to prioritise human agency, sustainability & global cooperation. Tuesday 4 November, 14:30-16:00 GMT Register to join us as we explore how #AI can truly serve people & planet: buff.ly/2bs599d

Details of an upcoming ODI Global/UNDP event - Artificial intelligence and planetary futures: agency, equity and co-operation in global AI governance. 4 November, 14:30-16:00 GMT.

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ODI Global @odi.global · 13/10/2025

Last chance! We only have a few spots remaining for our upcoming panel discussion in partnership with @ibtrust.bsky.social: Media, Trump and the COP30 Challenge The event is taking place on Thursday at 10am. Register here ⬇️

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Media, Trump and the COP30 challenge

This event will gather journalists, campaigners and civil society to discuss the role of the media in communicating climate change during an unprecedented period of political turmoil and instability.

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ODI Global @odi.global · 09/10/2025

With official aid is shrinking, can philanthropy fill the gap? Or is it time to rethink the system entirely? A new episode of our #ThinkChangePodcast asks how development cooperation must evolve in a changing world. 🎧

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Think Change episode 82: From aid to alliances – how should development cooperation evolve?

This episode examines the evolving role of philanthropy in shaping global development cooperation at a time when official aid is under strain.

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Humanitarian Policy Group @hpg-odiglobal.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

❓ Why are women-led organisations still being routinely overlooked within the humanitarian system? And what can (and should) we do about it? Our latest paper from researchers @megandaigle.bsky.social, @this-is-cate.bsky.social & Manny Maung explores → buff.ly/ILQa6DQ

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Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance @zcralliance.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Since 2021, @odi.global and the Alliance have been working together on assessing which countries are paying their 'fair share' of finance. Join us tomorrow, Thursday 9 October at 15.00 CEST for a preview of the latest report in the series! Sign up here ➡️ zcralliance.org/events/webin...

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A Fair Share of Climate Finance? An assessment of quantity and quality - Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance

This event will convene climate finance experts and practitioners to explore how to make progress on finance in the lead-up to and at COP30.

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ODI Global @odi.global · 08/10/2025

Photo highlights from day 1 of our public finance conference on building resilient futures! 📸 The 'polycrisis' is the new normal finance ministers must navigate. Thought-provoking sessions explored how finance must work for resilience, not just recovery. Watch day 2 live: odi.org/en/events/pu...

ODI Global Managing Director Hans Peter Lankes introducing the public finance conference.

Audience members at ODI Global's public finance conference.

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ODI Global @odi.global · 01/10/2025

What are the implications of Western donors' retreat from official development assistance? A new joint special issue of our Disasters and Development Policy Review journals is now out – featuring 14 free-to-read articles on the future of aid from a range of leading thinkers: buff.ly/3LAy61x 📚

A description of a new special joint issue of ODI Global's Development Policy Review and Disasters journals on 'Critical perspectives on the future of aid'

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ODI Global @odi.global · 29/09/2025

The UN is facing a crisis of confidence and funding, which made for a challenging backdrop to #UNGA80. As the dust settles on discussions in New York, our experts give their take on some of the key talking points – covering humanitarian reform, gender equality and Palestine.

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Three key takeaways from UNGA 80

Three ODI Global experts share their thoughts on a week which saw significant upheaval both inside and outside the UN building.

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Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance @zcralliance.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Sign up to the joint @zcralliance.bsky.social, @granthamlse.bsky.social and @odi.global upcoming webinar on 9th October to hear from climate finance experts about how to make progress on finance in the lead-up to and at COP30. Sign up: zcralliance.org/events/webin...

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ODI Global @odi.global · 26/09/2025

It's party conference season in the UK – and immigration will again be one of the big talking points. In a new blog, @j-hagen-zanker.bsky.social highlights 5 realities about migration repeatedly evidenced by research which we won't be hearing from politicians.

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Five things you should be hearing about immigration, but won’t be

Realities about migration and displacement that you won't hear from politicians during party conference season in the UK.

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ODI Global @odi.global · 24/09/2025

"What we've seen is really a patchwork of incremental reforms... nowhere close to the bold transformation that we really need." The UN80 initiative has seen limited results so far, says our Chief Executive @sara-pantuliano.bsky.social. Could #UNGA80 be the moment to galvanise this reform process?

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ODI Global @odi.global · 24/09/2025

The high-level general debate has kicked off at #UNGA80. Our team are in New York to shape conversations on some of the big issues at stake. Follow their live reaction as events unfold: odi.org/en/insights/... 🔖

A photo of the UN General Assembly Hall, below text: 'Live takes from our experts at UNGA 80.'

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The 7th World Bank / @odi.global / IFS Public Finance Conference starts tomorrow, with keynotes from LSE's Tim Besley and Norwegian University of Life Sciences' Annette Alstadsaeter. 🖥️ Find out more and join the livestreams here: www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...

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ODI Global @odi.global · 22/09/2025

What effect has the new US administration had on how we talk about climate change? Should we shift our approach? As we build towards #COP30, join us for a lively panel discussion on 16 Oct with leading figures from the media and civil society. In partnership with @ibtrust.bsky.social.

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Media, Trump and the COP30 challenge

This event will gather journalists, campaigners and civil society to discuss the role of the media in communicating climate change during an unprecedented period of political turmoil and instability.

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ODI Global @odi.global · 18/09/2025

As UNGA80 begins, the world faces a moment of reckoning - from Gaza and Ukraine to climate crises, pandemics, & new technologies. Heba Aly reflects on why reforming the UN system is key in this time - not just for diplomacy, but for real-world security, justice, & accountability. buff.ly/9afdfsY

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ODI Global @odi.global · 18/09/2025

Big themes announced ahead of the ODI Global Public finance conference 2025: horizon-scanning risks, disaster finance, social assistance, resilient infrastructure and cities and export diversification Join us 7 and 8 October in London or online 🔗https://buff.ly/YoVsaAO

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ODI Global @odi.global · 17/09/2025

“We deeply appreciate ODI's continued support… This partnership holds great potential to transform ambitious national goals into real impact.” – Hon. Amb. Mahmoud Thabit Kombo MP Last week’s hub launch was a reminder why partnerships matter — co-creating solutions that turn ambition into results.

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ODI Global @odi.global · 16/09/2025

Last week we celebrated the opening of ODI Global at Four Millbank! UK Deputy Prime Minister, David Lammy MP, shared the UK’s new approach to development: donors → investors, grants → expertise, intervention → local leadership. Partnership-driven solutions are key to helping countries thrive. 🌍

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