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S6 Ep19: Lovegrass Ethiopia: Building a business from the roots up
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As aid programs are cut across the developing world, the focus falls on what investors can do to help create economic growth. Someone who knows all about impact investing is Yonas Alemu, the founder of Lovegrass Ethiopia, which creates products from teff, a gluten- free grain that&#39;s native to Ethiopia and sells them across the world. Yonas abandoned a successful career in investment banking in ...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1747209600" data-format="short_date">May 14, 2025</span></span>
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S6 Ep18: Improving sanitation: What works and what doesn’t
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Millions of people around the world have no access to sanitation. They defecate in the open, or in facilities where it’s hard to avoid human contact, unavoidably spreading disease. One of the Sustainable Development Goals that you don’t hear about so much is the call to end open defecation by 2030. What progress are we making, and what health improvements are we seeing so far? In the latest of ...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1746691200" data-format="short_date">May 08, 2025</span></span>
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S6 Ep17: Improving worker well-being
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We often talk about providing not just jobs, but decent jobs, in developing countries. But in many parts of the world, workers still have incredibly harsh working conditions.
There have been interventions at the firm level to create safer workplaces, better health,
higher job satisfaction. But have they succeeded? And, if these policies succeed in raising worker well-being, is there a cost or a...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1746086400" data-format="short_date">May 01, 2025</span></span>
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S6 Ep16: What have we learned about the informal sector?
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A large proportion of economic activity takes place in the informal sector in every country, particularly in LMICs. Informality, and the lack of rights and protection that goes with it, affects the families who live in slums, the people who take off-the-books jobs, and the firms that choose to skirt regulations. It also affects the governments who want to increase the size of the formal sector ...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1745481600" data-format="short_date">Apr 24, 2025</span></span>
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S6 Ep15: How poverty fell
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In 1981, 44% of the world’s population were living in extreme poverty. By 2019, that number had fallen to 9%. This seems like a good news story, but how did it happen?

Tom Vogl of UC San Diego is one of the authors of a paper called simply, “How Poverty
Fell”. In it, they use surveys to track the progress out of poverty of individuals and
generations, to discover whether this progress has been...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1744876800" data-format="short_date">Apr 17, 2025</span></span>
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S5 Ep5: Development Dialogues: Who will pay for the global energy transition?
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In the latest episode of the collaboration between Yale’s Economic Growth Center and VoxDev, host Catherine Cheney is asking one of the most complex questions in global development: how can the clean energy transition move forward quickly and equitably, particularly for low- and middle-income countries still grappling with poverty? There is a balance between emissions reductions and economic gr...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1744704000" data-format="short_date">Apr 15, 2025</span></span>
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S6 Ep14: Graduation programmes: BRAC’s approach to targeting the ultra-poor
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The Graduation approach to helping people to escape from poverty was pioneered in 2002 by BRAC in Bangladesh. Today the approach is used around the world. In more than 20 years, what have we learned about how it works, when it works best, and how to implement it at scale? Shameran Abed, the Executive Director of BRAC International talks to Tim Phillips about how the Graduation approach reaches ...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1744185600" data-format="short_date">Apr 09, 2025</span></span>
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S6 Ep13: Profit shifting hits developing countries hardest
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Multinational enterprises in every industry are shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions. These corporate tax havens reduce tax revenues everywhere, but that hits hardest in developing countries where corporate taxes are a larger part of the overall tax take. The International Growth Centre has published a policy toolkit report into corporate tax havens. Ludvig Wier, the author, explains to Ti...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1743580800" data-format="short_date">Apr 02, 2025</span></span>
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S5 Ep4: Development Dialogues: Are vocational training programmes effective?
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Vocational training is often seen as a silver bullet for unemployment and poverty, but does the evidence support that view? Why do so many training programs fail to lead to real job opportunities, and are we asking too much of these programs – or maybe the wrong questions entirely? In the latest episode of the collaboration between Yale’s Economic Growth Center and VoxDev, host Catherine Cheney...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1743494400" data-format="short_date">Apr 01, 2025</span></span>
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S6 Ep12: Can safe transport unlock women’s labour force participation?
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A fundamental part of women’s economic empowerment is helping women who want to work outside the home to find and keep a job. A major part of that decision is ensuring that they can travel to work without fear of stigma, harassment or violence on public transport. In Pakistan, a study set out to discover whether an offer of safe commuter transport would tempt women who are currently not looking...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1743066000" data-format="short_date">Mar 27, 2025</span></span>
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S6 Ep11: Is debt leading to the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources?
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How does rising external debt in low-income countries affect the natural capital that
sustains our livelihoods? A new paper focuses on three river basins that are vital to the
livelihoods and biodiversity of the countries that surround them, suggesting ways that
we can both measure and conserve that natural capital in the face of the economic
forces that threaten it. Pushpam Kumar of UN Environ...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1742374800" data-format="short_date">Mar 19, 2025</span></span>
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S6 Ep10: Simon Johnson on geopolitics, AI, and the future of global development
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Geopolitical alliances are changing rapidly. Technological innovation is reshaping our economies. These trends offer a cocktail of risk and reward for countries in the global south. They are also both topics that are familiar to Simon Johnson of MIT.

Simon speaks to Tim Phillips about how policy in developing countries should respond to President Trump’s deglobalization agenda, how artificial ...
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33m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1741770000" data-format="short_date">Mar 12, 2025</span></span>
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33m
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S6 Ep9: Rebuilding Sudan’s digital infrastructure amidst conflict
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Civil war – the latest in a long series of armed conflicts – broke out in Sudan in April
2023. Today, more than half of the population needs humanitarian aid, and almost 15
million people have been displaced. The war has also devastated the digital
infrastructure in Sudan, deepening the crisis. African Renaissance Ventures is a VC firm
that backs entrepreneurs who use technology to solve major ...
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26m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1741165200" data-format="short_date">Mar 05, 2025</span></span>
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S6 Ep8: Bangladesh’s path forward: Leveraging evidence-based policy
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Bangladesh&#39;s development story in the 21st century is often regarded as a model of
resilience and progress. But on 5 August 2024, student-led protests and public unrest
caused Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh’s prime minister, to resign and flee to India. An
interim government, led by Muhammad Yunus, took over. Six months on, Bangladesh’s
political and economic future is unclear. Imran Matin, Executiv...
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23m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1740560400" data-format="short_date">Feb 26, 2025</span></span>
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S5 Ep3: Development dialogues: The future of evidence-based policy-making
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With populist politicians taking power around the world, policymakers are relying less
on research and expertise, as their political narratives prioritise emotion and identity
over facts. This may have long-term consequences for global development: not least
in the US, where the Agency for International Development has been dismantled,
with thousands of staff laid off. Critical development prog...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1740387600" data-format="short_date">Feb 24, 2025</span></span>
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42m
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S6 Ep7: How do cash transfers impact prices?
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What are the price impacts of cash transfer programs? Do they raise prices as well
as incomes? And what is the impact on people in the community who don’t receive
the transfer? Eeshani Kandpal of the Center for Global Development is one of the
researchers who has investigated this topic. She talks to Tim Phillips about the
conclusions of her own research, the insights of other economists, and t...
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25m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1739955600" data-format="short_date">Feb 19, 2025</span></span>
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S6 Ep6: The economics of ecosystems
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How does a healthy ecosystem benefit humanity? How does the normal functioning
of the economy impact natural habitats and animal populations? And what are the
costs and benefits of conservation? Eyal Frank of the University of Chicago works at
the intersection of economics and conservation. He speaks to Tim Phillips about how
economic growth often has a hidden environmental cost.

Read the full...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1739350800" data-format="short_date">Feb 12, 2025</span></span>
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S6 Ep5: Peacemaking, peacebuilding and post-war reconstruction
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The Reducing Conflict and Improving Performance in the Economy (ReCIPE)
programme, established in April 2024, aims to provide a better understanding of the
links between conflict, economic growth, and public policies. One of its many themes
is on what happens post-conflict: peacemaking, peacebuilding, and reconstruction.
Salma Mousa and Lisa Hultman, theme leaders, talk to Tim Phillips about wh...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1738746000" data-format="short_date">Feb 05, 2025</span></span>
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31m
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S6 Ep4: What have we learned about microfinance?
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Published this week: the latest VoxDevLit covers microfinance. After many decades,
microfinance is pervasive and popular in developing countries but is often
controversial. What have we learned about what works, how it works, and who it
helps – and what is there still to understand? Authors Simon Quinn, Muhammad
Meki, and Jing Cai talk to Tim Phillips about the problems of evaluation, the
surpr...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1738227600" data-format="short_date">Jan 30, 2025</span></span>
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31m
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S6 Ep3: How can countries develop their economies in a changed world?
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In 2018, “Unorthodox policies for unorthodox times” was the title of the first in a
series of blogs published by the International Growth Centre. The authors argued
that the environment for development had changed, and so development policies
should change too. Seven years on, as delegates gather in Davos for the 2025
Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, how prescient was the analysis in...
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29m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1737536400" data-format="short_date">Jan 22, 2025</span></span>
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29m
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S6 Ep2: Rethinking evidence in development economics
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Many development economists would argue that the most important innovation of
the last two decades has been a commitment to use only rigorous evidence for
policy, and usually what they mean is evidence generated by RCTs. But are
systematic reviews of the results a useful guide to policy? And should development
economics continue to be focusing so much on the programmes that flow from RCT-
drive...
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29m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1736931600" data-format="short_date">Jan 15, 2025</span></span>
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29m
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S6 Ep1: How does internet connectivity impact developing economies?
</h5>
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For more than 30 years, optimists about technology have been telling us that the
internet is transforming our economies. What is the evidence that this has happened,
or is happening, in low- or middle-income countries? And if the promise has not been
fulfilled, why not? Lin Tian is one of the authors of a new paper that examines the
evidence so far. She talks to Tim Phillips about what the rese...
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23m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1736326800" data-format="short_date">Jan 08, 2025</span></span>
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S4 Ep53: The role of evidence at development finance institutions
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Chris Woodruff has pioneered academic research into businesses, large and small, in low-income countries, He is also a non-executive Director of British International Investment (BII), a development finance institution and impact investor that partners with more than 1,500 businesses in emerging economies, with assets of £8.1 billion.  Chris talks to Tim Phillips about what he has learned from ...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1734598800" data-format="short_date">Dec 19, 2024</span></span>
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<a class="text-decoration-none" href="/posts/8624937-development-dialogues-how-can-emerging-economies-break-free-from-the-sidelines-of-global-trade"><div class="Episode-list-grid card-body pan">
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<img srcset="https://audioboom.com/i/42320820/75x75/c 75w, https://audioboom.com/i/42320820/150x150/c 150w, https://audioboom.com/i/42320820/300x300/c 300w, https://audioboom.com/i/42320820/600x600/c 600w, https://audioboom.com/i/42320820/1400x1400/c 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 64px, 96px" style="background-color: #925254; max-width: 96px; width: 15cqw;" class="js-img-bg ratio-square rounded-1" loading="lazy" src="https://audioboom.com/i/42320820/1400x1400/c" />
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S5 Ep2: Development Dialogues: How can emerging economies break free from the sidelines of global trade?
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In the second episode of the collaboration between Yale’s Economic Growth Center
and VoxDev, Catherine Cheney speaks to Amit Khandelwal of the Yale Jackson
School of Public Affairs, Isabela Manelici of the London School of Economics, and
Arvind Subramanian of the Peterson Institute, As globalisation faces new headwinds,
they discuss the outlook for those countries that didn’t reap the trade ben...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1734426000" data-format="short_date">Dec 17, 2024</span></span>
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<img srcset="https://audioboom.com/i/42309943/75x75/c 75w, https://audioboom.com/i/42309943/150x150/c 150w, https://audioboom.com/i/42309943/300x300/c 300w, https://audioboom.com/i/42309943/600x600/c 600w, https://audioboom.com/i/42309943/1400x1400/c 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 64px, 96px" style="background-color: #d80305; max-width: 96px; width: 15cqw;" class="js-img-bg ratio-square rounded-1" loading="lazy" src="https://audioboom.com/i/42309943/1400x1400/c" />
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S4 Ep52: Why do protests matter?
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When citizens demand change and feel they are not being heard, they protest on the
streets. Thanks to social media and TV coverage, we see protests every night on the
news. But has the frequency or the character of protests changed? Who is
protesting, and what makes them take to the streets? David Yang and Noam
Yuchtman are two of the authors of a new review of the literature on protests. They
...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1733994000" data-format="short_date">Dec 12, 2024</span></span>
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<img srcset="https://audioboom.com/i/42303859/75x75/c 75w, https://audioboom.com/i/42303859/150x150/c 150w, https://audioboom.com/i/42303859/300x300/c 300w, https://audioboom.com/i/42303859/600x600/c 600w, https://audioboom.com/i/42303859/1400x1400/c 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 64px, 96px" style="background-color: #baae9e; max-width: 96px; width: 15cqw;" class="js-img-bg ratio-square rounded-1" loading="lazy" src="https://audioboom.com/i/42303859/1400x1400/c" />
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S4 Ep51: How the urban environment can adapt to climate change
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In our final episode based on this year’s BREAD-IGC virtual PhD-level course on the
economics of cities in low and middle-income countries, Matthew Kahn of USC and
Siqi Zheng of MIT focus on sustainable urbanisation. They tell Tim Phillips about how
cities can adapt in the face of climate change, both its inhabitants and its buildings.

Read the full show notes on VoxDev: https://voxdev.org/top...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1733821200" data-format="short_date">Dec 10, 2024</span></span>
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<img srcset="https://audioboom.com/i/42293438/75x75/c 75w, https://audioboom.com/i/42293438/150x150/c 150w, https://audioboom.com/i/42293438/300x300/c 300w, https://audioboom.com/i/42293438/600x600/c 600w, https://audioboom.com/i/42293438/1400x1400/c 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 64px, 96px" style="background-color: #ab9d90; max-width: 96px; width: 15cqw;" class="js-img-bg ratio-square rounded-1" loading="lazy" src="https://audioboom.com/i/42293438/1400x1400/c" />
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S4 Ep50: Helping jobseekers signal their skills
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If you’re applying for a job, you want to know what you’re good at, and be able to
prove it to the recruiter. If doing the recruiting, you want some evidence about who
the best candidates would be. In low- or middle-income countries, this information is
often in short supply. How does this affect who gets a job, and the hiring process? In
the latest in our collaborations with J-Pal to discuss t...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1733389200" data-format="short_date">Dec 05, 2024</span></span>
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S4 Ep49: The history of cash transfers
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There are more than 1.4 million papers about cash transfers. They inspired Ugo
Gentilini, lead economist for social protection at the World Bank, to spend five years
researching the surprisingly long and rich history of these cash transfers. The
resulting book, called “Timely Cash: Lessons From 2,500 Years of Giving People
Money”, shows that the political and ethical debates that cash transfers...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1733216400" data-format="short_date">Dec 03, 2024</span></span>
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S4 Ep48: The high price of Pakistan’s polluting power contracts
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Where does electricity come from? In developing countries, the power sector uses
long-term, rigid contracts called power purchase agreements (PPAs) between a
private generator and government-owned utilities. These PPAs are not usually
competitive, their terms – including payment guarantees by which suppliers get paid
even when there is no demand – are often secret, they can last for up to 30 ye...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1732698000" data-format="short_date">Nov 27, 2024</span></span>
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S4 Ep47: How government analytics can improve public sector implementation
</h5>
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Can better data analysis improve the way that a government functions. The
Government Analytics Handbook, published by the World Bank, is both a practical
how-to guide and a fascinating insight into how administrators can improve the
quality of government analytics. Daniel Rogger and Christian Schuster are the
editors. They talk to Tim Phillips about the challenges, the potential – and their wor...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1732093200" data-format="short_date">Nov 20, 2024</span></span>
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S4 Ep46: Designing cities in developing countries
</h5>
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As cities grow and spread, the uses to which land is put, and the value of that land,
will also change. The challenges of urban planning, construction and renewal are
complicated. But the way we address those challenges has profound impacts for the
people who live, and will live, in that physical city. Vernon Henderson and Maisy
Wong of University of Pennsylvania explain to Tim Phillips how cit...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1731488400" data-format="short_date">Nov 13, 2024</span></span>
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S4 Ep45: Strengthening climate resilience in agriculture
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Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, and so it has never been
more important to increase the resilience of small-scale farmers. What does
research tell us are the most effective interventions and policies to do this? In the
latest of our special episodes to discuss J-PAL policy insights, Tavneet Suri talks to
Tim Phillips about how we can strengthen the resilience of farmers to cl...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1730972700" data-format="short_date">Nov 07, 2024</span></span>
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S5 Ep1: Development Dialogues: Financing climate adaptation
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In the first episode of a regular collaboration between Yale&#39;s Economic Growth
Center and VoxDev, host Catherine Cheney speaks to Catherine Wolfram and
Namrata Kala of the MIT Sloan School, and Rohini Pande of Yale, about how to
finance climate adaptation. They discuss what works and what doesn&#39;t, what role
carbon markets play, and also discuss the upcoming United Nations Climate
Change Summit,...
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34m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1730764800" data-format="short_date">Nov 05, 2024</span></span>
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34m
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S4 Ep43: The role of cities in economic development
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If you go to the IGC web site, you will discover the BREAD-IGC virtual PhD-level
course in economics. The topic for 2024 is urbanisation and the economics of cities
in low and middle-income countries. Ed Glaeser and Diego Puga gave the first talk,
about the dynamic city. They talk to Tim Phillips about what attracts people to cities,
how those cities constantly change and adapt to the needs of ...
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24m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1730278800" data-format="short_date">Oct 30, 2024</span></span>
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24m
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S4 Ep42: Can we use experiments to understand institutions?
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Institutions help to determine economic growth. But studying how they do this using
the rigorous experimental techniques popularised in the credibility revolution is
difficult. A new review highlights an exciting new wave of empirical research into the
consequences of institutional change. Michael Callen and Jonathan Weigel talk to
Tim Phillips about how we can do experiments about institutions...
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31m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1729670400" data-format="short_date">Oct 23, 2024</span></span>
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31m
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<img srcset="https://audioboom.com/i/42146861/75x75/c 75w, https://audioboom.com/i/42146861/150x150/c 150w, https://audioboom.com/i/42146861/300x300/c 300w, https://audioboom.com/i/42146861/600x600/c 600w, https://audioboom.com/i/42146861/1400x1400/c 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 64px, 96px" style="background-color: #326c57; max-width: 96px; width: 15cqw;" class="js-img-bg ratio-square rounded-1" loading="lazy" src="https://audioboom.com/i/42146861/1400x1400/c" />
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S4 Ep41: What can we learn from food economics?
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A new open access textbook called Food Economics analyses the connections
between agriculture and resource use, commodity trade, food businesses, and retail
markets. It covers how food is produced, brought to market, and sold. But it also
looks at consumption: why many have too little food, and the problems caused by
malnutrition. Will Masters and Amelia Finaret, the authors, tell Tim Phillips ...
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33m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1729065600" data-format="short_date">Oct 16, 2024</span></span>
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33m
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<a class="text-decoration-none" href="/posts/8587015-how-connecting-firms-to-markets-can-promote-economic-development"><div class="Episode-list-grid card-body pan">
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<img srcset="https://audioboom.com/i/42129125/75x75/c 75w, https://audioboom.com/i/42129125/150x150/c 150w, https://audioboom.com/i/42129125/300x300/c 300w, https://audioboom.com/i/42129125/600x600/c 600w, https://audioboom.com/i/42129125/1400x1400/c 1400w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 64px, 96px" style="background-color: #211b16; max-width: 96px; width: 15cqw;" class="js-img-bg ratio-square rounded-1" loading="lazy" src="https://audioboom.com/i/42129125/1400x1400/c" />
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S4 Ep40: How connecting firms to markets can promote economic development
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Small businesses in LMICs provide most of the employment. But they could provide
many more jobs if the best of them could unlock their potential to grow. In the latest
of our series of VoxDev Talks based on J-PAL special reports, Tim Phillips talks to
David Atkin about how we can do a better job of connecting firms and entrepreneurs
to markets.

Read the full show notes here: https://voxdev.org...
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19m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1728460800" data-format="short_date">Oct 09, 2024</span></span>
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19m
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S4 Ep39: The gap between education policy and practice
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More children than ever in LMICs go to school – but they still don’t learn as much as
we would want, and the difference between the educational haves and the have-nots
is widening. Noam Angrist joins Tim Phillips to talk about the size of the gap between
education policy and practice, why it exists, why economic development alone isn’t
closing it, and how we can improve policy implementation in...
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18m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1727946000" data-format="short_date">Oct 03, 2024</span></span>
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18m
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S4 Ep38: Navigating macroeconomic shocks in sub-Saharan Africa
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Since 2020, governments everywhere have had to grapple with the impacts of first
Covid-19 and then a series of global shocks, not least the Russian invasion of
Ukraine. The challenges have been particularly acute in Africa. Christopher Adam
has seen the impacts of these shocks at first hand – and has also advised some of
the people who have been making policy in Africa to mitigate their effects...
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39m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1727251200" data-format="short_date">Sep 25, 2024</span></span>
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39m
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S4 Ep37: How do floods impact economic development?
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Dev Patel of Harvard describes Bangladesh as “ground zero for the harmful effects
of climate change”. Extreme weather events, particularly floods, are already affecting
the lives of millions of people who live there and are making life more difficult for the
country’s farmers. He tells Tim Phillips how he harnessed machine learning to create
for the first time reliable global data on flooding –...
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29m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1726646400" data-format="short_date">Sep 18, 2024</span></span>
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29m
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S4 Ep36: How meritocracy varies across the world
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In a meritocracy more people can do jobs that match their skills, making them more productive. It’s not just good for them, it’s good for the economy too. So how effective are the policies that try to make countries more meritocratic? Oriana Bandiera and Ilse Lindenlaub tell Tim Phillips how much productivity countries are sacrificing because the wrong people are in the wrong jobs, which countr...
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18m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1726045560" data-format="short_date">Sep 11, 2024</span></span>
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18m
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S4 Ep35: Improving access to clean water
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More people die from contaminated drinking water and poor sanitation than from
water-related disasters. What are the consequences if we don’t provide safe drinking
water, especially for children, and what technologies and policies can accelerate that
change? In the first of a series of VoxDev Talks based on J-PAL Policy Insights,
Pascaline Dupas of Princeton, also Scientific Director for J-PAL ...
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22m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1725436800" data-format="short_date">Sep 04, 2024</span></span>
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22m
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S4 Ep34: The past, present and future of development economics
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Pranab Bardhan of Berkeley has recently published a memoir called Charaiveti: An
Academic’s Global Journey. It takes in his childhood in India, and his academic
career in the UK, India and the US. The book takes in topics as diverse as whether
the questions Marx asked are still relevant today, what economists can learn from
anthropologists, what the Chinese government got right (and wrong), and...
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39m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1724832000" data-format="short_date">Aug 28, 2024</span></span>
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39m
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S4 Ep33: Measuring upward mobility in developing countries
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We don’t know much about economic mobility in developing countries compared to
the wealthier, data-rich societies which have been the subjects of so much recent
research. What does the data tell us so far, and what is important to find out? Debraj
Ray and Garance Genicot tell Tim Phillips why measuring upward mobility in low-
and middle-income countries is both difficult and important, and what...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1724227200" data-format="short_date">Aug 21, 2024</span></span>
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S4 Ep32: Communicating evidence on education policy
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In May 2024 the world’s largest gathering of education and skills ministers took place
in London. Tahir Andrabi was there to meet policymakers in his capacity as a
member of the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP). GEEAP
analyses existing research in education to discover which policies are “smart buys”
for governments, and which are not. He talks to Tim Phillips to talk about how
...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1723622400" data-format="short_date">Aug 14, 2024</span></span>
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S4 Ep31: The role of economics in promoting lasting peace
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Conflict destroys people, communities, and entire economies. If we reduce the amount of conflict in the world, we save lives and reduce poverty. Dominic Rohner of the University of Lausanne tells Tim Phillips about his new book called The Peace Formula, which sets out a different way to prevent and resolve conflict.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1722499200" data-format="short_date">Aug 01, 2024</span></span>
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It makes sense that vocational training and apprenticeships would be an effective way to help young people find productive work in the global south. But evidence to support this reasonable assumption has been weak, and many researchers find little or no effect. Subha Mani and Neha Agarwal have reviewed the evidence, and they tell Tim Phillips that one type of training shows strong results. It’s...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1722326400" data-format="short_date">Jul 30, 2024</span></span>
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Mothers traditionally provide most of the care for children in early years. What role
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incentivise them to do exactly that? David Evans and Pamela Jakiela talk to Tim
Phillips about the benefit of involving fathers in early childhood development, but
also how adapting parenting programmes to involve fathers isn...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1721808000" data-format="short_date">Jul 24, 2024</span></span>
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Paul Collier has for many years challenged the conventional wisdom of development
economics, bringing our attention to the real-world impact of policies many of us take
for granted. His new book is called Left Behind. It is about how some countries or
regions in the world fall behind, and what we can do to help them recover. In this
week’s episode he talks to Tim Phillips about what causes a pl...
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S4 Ep27: Can flexible work bypass gender norms?
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If women in developing countries want to work, what keeps them out of the labour
force? Is it the other tasks they have to do, or the expectations of the people around
them? Two new papers experiment with the effect of offering flexible working to
women in India, Lisa Ho talks to Tim Phillips about what the results might mean for
the millions of women in India and beyond who would like to work,...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1720598400" data-format="short_date">Jul 10, 2024</span></span>
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