This episode of the Small Islands Big Picture podcast unpacks the major policy, politics and climate milestones for small islands in 2025 and looks at what is still to come in 2026. Listen now.

In the latest issue of "This Week in Macroeconomics", Phyllis Papadavid and Dirk Willem te Velde outline a G20 framework for scaling capital flows and supporting investment growth in emerging and ...

This perceptions survey by ODI Global's Resilient and Sustainable Islands Initiative (RESI) shows which development partners ...

We will continue this line of work, building up to our 2026 Public Finance Conference, which will focus on health spending. We will be researching funding flows to frontline facilities, the capacity ...

In 2026, competition over critical minerals continues reshaping geopolitical risk, industrial policy and national security. From US project finance and EU strategic autonomy to China’s 15th Five-Year ...

Rather than a shared global vision, food systems are being reorganised around national insurance against external shocks, security and geopolitical alignment. How is this shift reshaping who eats, who ...

The latest issue of "This Week in Macroeconomics" explores the prospects for greater oil price volatility, the transmission mechanisms to the US$257 trillion non-bank financial sector and the ...

Against all fiscal and informational odds, African governments have responded proactively to disruptions in US aid.

The post-war, post-colonial architecture of international aid is not merely cracking; in many places, it has already ...

One year into Trump’s second presidency, sweeping tariffs raised US revenues but reshaped global trade. China adapted, supply chains rerouted, prices rose at home and vulnerable economies abroad bore ...

A year into Trump’s second term, guests examine how India, China, Russia and other big powers are recalibrating strategies in a shifting global order. 2026 has already been marked by significant ...