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And publish our actions. isn't one of the problems, though, that there is a fundamental problematic power dynamic at play in a lot of the work you do in some of the most disadvantaged and poorest countries in the world? you send out your staff — they are largely, you know, if they're coming from the uk, western staff, to work with these poor people. not all of them, but some of them, are male staff members working with vulnerable females. i'm going to quote you a writer on international development called deborah doane, who says, "look, sexual abuse is about money and power, "and these are k...

Well, let's just start with what's happening around the world at the moment. we think, for the first time since records began 30 years ago, there's actually been a rise in extreme poverty in the last 12 months. so the combination of covid disruptions, the war in ukraine, rising prices around the world, has actually led to a great reversal in that general decline in extreme poverty. hang on a minute. that's an important phrase — a "reversal". it could be a blip because it is important to emphasise that the overall trajectory of that graph on extreme poverty is very much downward. so if it's a...

The proportion of the world's population living in extreme poverty has declined sharply over the past 30 years. here's the bad news. still close to one in 20 of all the world's people relies on humanitarian assistance for survival. with many nations cutting their aid budgets, international ngos remain a linchpin of the global aid system. but are they fit for purpose? well, my guest is danny sriskandarajah, chief executive of oxfam great britain. he promised to reimagine what aid would look like. has he succeeded?

We began by trying to make sense and interpret sometimes complicated statistics when it comes to hunger and extreme poverty. you'll know that there are data analysts, economists, social scientists, who look at the data, despite what you've said about the last year, and they are real optimists about the future of humanity. i'm thinking about people like hans rosling and steven pinker. you're at the front line of all of this. are you an optimist or a pessimist about the future of us as a species? so i am an optimist, and i think we can take the actions necessary to address climate change, to del...

"is a fig leaf that fails to cover up "a naked truth — that of a severely limited effort "to address global problems and repair historical and present day injustice" — ie, the aid system as we know it, both governmental and nongovernmental, simply doesn't work. it's not fit for purpose. i think professor reddy is spot—on on the fact that we need a reset. we need to re—imagine how to fund global public goods. the idea that organisations like ours go cap in hand to beg for resources after disaster strikes was always problematic. it's increasingly nonsensical. we need a new way of pre—p...