Powerful women commanded the stage at the World Bank-International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings and its sideline summits last week. All the big names were there: Samantha Power, Melinda French Gates, Mia Mottley, Kristalina Georgieva, Christine Lagarde, and many more. They talked of empowerment and equity and investment.
Also in today’s edition: We look at whether philanthropy even works, and provide a roundup of last week’s meetings.
In a world racked with crises, war, and authoritarian regimes, the U.S. government tends to focus attention on problem areas, USAID Administrator Samantha Power told a panel last week.
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Helen Murphy
Helen is an award-winning journalist and Senior Editor at Devex, where she edits coverage on global development in the Americas. Based in Colombia, she previously covered war, politics, financial markets, and general news for Reuters, where she headed the bureau, and for Bloomberg in Colombia and Argentina, where she witnessed the financial meltdown. She started her career in London as a reporter for Euromoney Publications before moving to Hong Kong to work for a daily newspaper.
