Annual Meetings 2024: How We've Progressed and What's Next? | The Development Podcast

The International Monetary Fund-World Bank Group 2024 Annual Meetings marked a turn of the page to the next phase of our mission: Ensuring job creation—and employment—are not the byproduct of our projects but an explicit aim of them.
In this latest episode of The Development Podcast (worldbank.org/en/news/series/the-development-p…), we draw on some of the highlights from the Annual Meetings (live.worldbank.org/en/series/2024/annual-meeti…), as well as announcements on creating a new eco-system for agribusiness and boosting economic opportunities for more women.
We hear from Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank Group; Situmbeko Musokotwane, Minister of Finance for Zambia; Mabouba Diagne, Minister for Agriculture, Food and Livestock in Senegal; Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli, President and CEO of the ONE Campaign; Sandra Ablamba Johnson, Minister and Secretary General at the Presidency of Togo; Adebayo Olawale Edun, Nigeria’s Minister of Finance; and Raj Kumar, President & Editor-in-Chief at Devex.
Timestamps
[00:00] Welcome and introduction of the topic
[01:33] World Bank's evolution process towards a bigger, better Bank
[04:35] Agriculture and food as an engine of sustainable growth and jobs
[08:17] Accelerating women’s economic opportunities
[11:58] Jobs creation, International Development Association, World Bank Group scorecard
[15:03] IDA21 replenishment
[17:51] Highlights and announcements
[21:04] Cooperation between the Global North and the Global South
[23:03] Climate change and COP29
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