In this month’s podcast we look at a plan to get Syrian refugees in Lebanon into school, ask how we can better support governments to deliver public services, and take a look at the latest in the post-2015 negotiations.

This week's Economist takes a look at research from ODI's Development Progress project and explores the concept of multidimensional poverty.

ODI is convening experts in New York this week, aiming to learn lessons from evidence and experience for setting new goals and targets, and for creating the political coalitions to allow that to happen.