Dear Colleagues,

From what I could tell, White House and GOP leaders  took up a new hobby this week –  “popesplaining”  – but no worries, unlike the Donald, Vance & co, IHP has no time for  sparring with Leo XIV.

In this week’s issue, we first focus on the IMF/World Bank Spring meetings (with among others the new  ‘Water Forward’  initiative from the World Bank, part of its recent  “shift toward mission-driven development”).  The meetings take place in ‘polycrisis times on speed’, but we’re also in the midst of a capitalist regime change since a few years.  In the margins of the meetings, there was also some good news on the Lenacapavir roll-out (at the CSIS Futures summit), and the Future of Development Cooperation Coalition met for the first time.    Meanwhile, in the WHO DG race it seems ‘the game is on’ ( with for example a rather important  visit of Tedros to Berlin  early this week).  The newsletter also features once again lots of publications and Comments related to...