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Podcast: Radio Miraya
Episode: From Crisis to Recovery: Fixing South Sudan Public Finance and Climate Resilience
Description: On Democracy in Action, host Sani Martin opened a discussion on South Sudan’s public finance and economic recovery, drawing on the World Bank’s 2026 Public Finance Review and the 2025 Country Climate and Development Report, which highlight widespread poverty, food insecurity, and the country’s heavy dependence on oil revenue. He was joined by three guests: Kishan Abeygunawardana, a Senior Economist at the World Bank, who explained the purpose of the Public Finance Review and pointed to major gaps in data transparency and governance, Stephen Ling, the World Bank Lead Environment Specialist joining from Addis Ababa, who outlined how worsen...