VoxDev Development Economics

Business & Economics Podcasts

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

Episodes

S7 Ep55: Armed groups as states: Taxation, security, and civilian support

S7 Ep54: Tracking Kenya's tractors

S7 Ep53: Implementation science in education: Scaling what works

S7 Ep52: Is electricity a weak link in development?

S7 Ep51: The critical minerals scramble

Ideas in Development: GiveDirectly's journey to scale

S7 Ep50: Evidence-based policy: Why one good trial isn't enough

S7 Ep49: Follow the paper trail

S7 Ep48: How politicians co-opt bureaucrats

Ideas in Development: How BRAC partners with governments to fight poverty

S7 Ep47: No Taxation without Administration

S7 Ep46: Rethinking development cooperation: The case for a 'balance sheet' approach

S7 Ep45: Cape Town's day zero: How data rebuilt a city's water resilience

S7 Ep44: Fifty years of Chinese growth: The gradualist reform strategy explained

S7 Ep43: Caste, race, and power: The barriers to political inclusion

S7 Ep42: Masculinity norms and their economic implications

S7 Ep41: How global supply chains are built

S7 Ep40: Using mobile phones to support teachers, parents, and students

S7 Ep39: Ideas in Development: Moving billions to evidence

S7 Ep38: How AI can put 20 years of development evidence to work