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VoxDev Development Economics

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Hear about the cutting edge of development economics from research to practice.

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351 episodes

  1. S7 Ep57: Skipping the factory 27:35
  2. S7 Ep56: Why democracy alone does not build effective states 38:56
  3. Ideas in Development: Ken Opalo on the research Africa needs 46:05
  4. S7 Ep55: Armed groups as states: Taxation, security, and civilian support 42:05
  5. S7 Ep54: Tracking Kenya's tractors 12:34
  6. S7 Ep53: Implementation science in education: Scaling what works 26:17
  7. S7 Ep52: Is electricity a weak link in development? 23:13
  8. S7 Ep51: The critical minerals scramble 26:10
  9. Ideas in Development: GiveDirectly's journey to scale 55:10
  10. S7 Ep50: Evidence-based policy: Why one good trial isn't enough 33:47
  11. S7 Ep49: Follow the paper trail 21:23
  12. S7 Ep48: How politicians co-opt bureaucrats 26:41
  13. Ideas in Development: How BRAC partners with governments to fight poverty 49:40
  14. S7 Ep47: No Taxation without Administration 40:10
  15. S7 Ep46: Rethinking development cooperation: The case for a 'balance sheet' approach 42:12
  16. S7 Ep45: Cape Town's day zero: How data rebuilt a city's water resilience 37:52
  17. S7 Ep44: Fifty years of Chinese growth: The gradualist reform strategy explained 33:38
  18. S7 Ep43: Caste, race, and power: The barriers to political inclusion 35:23
  19. S7 Ep42: Masculinity norms and their economic implications 26:43
  20. S7 Ep41: How global supply chains are built 1:03:37
  21. S7 Ep40: Using mobile phones to support teachers, parents, and students 26:25
  22. S7 Ep39: Ideas in Development: Moving billions to evidence 50:46
  23. S7 Ep38: How AI can put 20 years of development evidence to work 30:28
  24. S7 Ep37: Why businesses stay small in emerging markets 33:57
  25. S7 Ep36: Climate Change Politics in Developing Countries 30:08
  26. S7 Ep35: Ideas in Development: Has development economics lost its way? 52:42
  27. S7 Ep34: Why farmers struggle to adopt new agricultural technology 23:01
  28. S7 Ep33: Interpersonal violence costs the world more than war 29:57
  29. S7 Ep32: Courts in the Global South 20:38
  30. S7 Ep31: Nonelite Women's Participation in Politics 31:53
  31. S7 Ep30: The end of aid dependency 22:49
  32. S7 Ep29: What the $1-a-day global poverty line gets wrong 29:13
  33. S7 Ep28: Why civil service reform fails (and what actually works) 37:04
  34. S7 Ep27: The World Bank's East Asian Miracle 26:41
  35. S7 Ep26: Ed Glaeser on the perfect city and the demons of density 36:31
  36. S7 Ep25: Roshaneh Zafar on 30 years of microfinance and mindset change in Pakistan 30:24
  37. S7 Ep24: Leonard Wantchekon on youth and governance in African cities 55:06
  38. S7 Ep23: How killing sparrows contributed to the Great Chinese Famine 15:39
  39. S7 Ep22: Chris Blattman on how organised crime takes over cities 50:23
  40. S7 Ep21: Boosting farmers' profits 30:10
  41. S7 Ep20: Argentina’s 2017 tax reform 40:48
  42. S7 Ep19: Can digital credit unlock investment in smallholder farms? 22:58
  43. S7 Ep18: The complex link between poverty and health 26:51
  44. S7 Ep17: The long shadow of British rule: India's colonial legacy 28:01
  45. S7 Ep14: Ideas in Development: Raghuram Rajan on AI, India, and service-led growth 45:48
  46. S7 Ep16: The rise and fall of China's overseas lending 23:59
  47. S7 Ep15: The rise of digital payments in Latin America 29:32
  48. S7 Ep13: Ideas in Development: Josh Lerner on the diffusion of technology 40:03
  49. S7 Ep12: Can contact between groups reduce prejudice? 22:52
  50. S7 Ep11: Transport policy for economic development 24:47