VoxDev Development Economics

351 - S7 Ep57: Skipping the factory

350 - S7 Ep56: Why democracy alone does not build effective states

349 - Ideas in Development: Ken Opalo on the research Africa needs

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

347 - S7 Ep54: Tracking Kenya's tractors

346 - S7 Ep53: Implementation science in education: Scaling what works

345 - S7 Ep52: Is electricity a weak link in development?

344 - S7 Ep51: The critical minerals scramble

343 - Ideas in Development: GiveDirectly's journey to scale

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

341 - S7 Ep49: Follow the paper trail

340 - S7 Ep48: How politicians co-opt bureaucrats

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

338 - S7 Ep47: No Taxation without Administration

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

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

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

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

333 - S7 Ep42: Masculinity norms and their economic implications

332 - S7 Ep41: How global supply chains are built

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

330 - S7 Ep39: Ideas in Development: Moving billions to evidence

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

328 - S7 Ep37: Why businesses stay small in emerging markets

327 - S7 Ep36: Climate Change Politics in Developing Countries

326 - S7 Ep35: Ideas in Development: Has development economics lost its way?

325 - S7 Ep34: Why farmers struggle to adopt new agricultural technology

324 - S7 Ep33: Interpersonal violence costs the world more than war

323 - S7 Ep32: Courts in the Global South

322 - S7 Ep31: Nonelite Women's Participation in Politics

321 - S7 Ep30: The end of aid dependency

320 - S7 Ep29: What the $1-a-day global poverty line gets wrong

319 - S7 Ep28: Why civil service reform fails (and what actually works)

318 - S7 Ep27: The World Bank's East Asian Miracle

317 - S7 Ep26: Ed Glaeser on the perfect city and the demons of density

316 - S7 Ep25: Roshaneh Zafar on 30 years of microfinance and mindset change in Pakistan

315 - S7 Ep24: Leonard Wantchekon on youth and governance in African cities

314 - S7 Ep23: How killing sparrows contributed to the Great Chinese Famine

313 - S7 Ep22: Chris Blattman on how organised crime takes over cities

312 - S7 Ep21: Boosting farmers' profits

311 - S7 Ep20: Argentina’s 2017 tax reform

310 - S7 Ep19: Can digital credit unlock investment in smallholder farms?

309 - S7 Ep18: The complex link between poverty and health

308 - S7 Ep17: The long shadow of British rule: India's colonial legacy

307 - S7 Ep14: Ideas in Development: Raghuram Rajan on AI, India, and service-led growth

306 - S7 Ep16: The rise and fall of China's overseas lending

305 - S7 Ep15: The rise of digital payments in Latin America

304 - S7 Ep13: Ideas in Development: Josh Lerner on the diffusion of technology

303 - S7 Ep12: Can contact between groups reduce prejudice?

302 - S7 Ep11: Transport policy for economic development

301 - S7 Ep10: Reducing air pollution: Can markets succeed where regulation fails?

300 - S7 Ep9: How skilled migration from Asia reshaped the US economy

299 - S7 Ep8: Integrating refugees: What policies work best?

298 - S7 Ep7: Can AI take off in Africa?

297 - S7 Ep6: Gender inequality in labour markets: Why growth and education are not enough

296 - S7 Ep5: African agriculture's underappreciated supply side

295 - S7 Ep4: Schools are failing to deliver learning

294 - S7 Ep3: Why labour markets look different in low-income countries

293 - S7 Ep2: Ideas in Development: How Costa Rica became an FDI powerhouse

292 - S7 Ep1: How to solve the global reading crisis

291 - S6 Ep50: A unified global carbon market

290 - S6 Ep49: How the slave trade shaped development in Europe

289 - S6 Ep48: Women’s power at home

288 - S6 Ep47: Intimate partner violence: Causes, costs and prevention

287 - S6 Ep46: The origins of government

286 - S6 Ep45: Rethinking trade and development

285 - S6 Ep44: What have we learned about training entrepreneurs?

284 - S6 Ep43: How religion shapes economic development

283 - S6 Ep42: Leonard Wantchekon on African development, democracy, and the African School of Economics

282 - S6 Ep41: India’s economic development since independence

281 - S6 Ep40: Understanding the global construction sector

280 - S6 Ep39: What have we learned about women in the workforce?

279 - S6 Ep38: Understanding and tackling school bullying

278 - S6 Ep37: The macroeconomics of climate change

277 - S6 Ep36: Culture and economic development

276 - S6 Ep35: Conflict and development

275 - S6 Ep34: Food policy: Lessons and priorities for a changing world

274 - S6 Ep33: The development bogeyman? Understanding the role of middlemen

273 - S6 Ep32: Contraception without prejudice: Reducing bias in family planning

272 - S6 Ep31: Partnering with business for development economics research

271 - S6 Ep30: Mobile money in Ghana

270 - S6 Ep29: The economics of period poverty

269 - S6 Ep28: Can storytelling reduce violence against women and children?

268 - S6 Ep27: Why “brain drain” is an incomplete story of migration

267 - S6 Ep26: Minibuses, major gains: Rethinking urban transit

266 - S6 Ep25: Gas flaring threatens agriculture and livelihoods in Nigeria

265 - S6 Ep24: Going for economic growth: Lessons from Indonesia

264 - S5 Ep6: Development Dialogues: What is the role of small farms in the future of agriculture?

263 - S6 Ep23: Why we need to invest in foundational learning

262 - S6 Ep22: Understanding Brazil’s falling income inequality

261 - S6 Ep21: Can economists shape the future of AI?

260 - S6 Ep20: How does social media influence conflict?

259 - S6 Ep19: Lovegrass Ethiopia: Building a business from the roots up

258 - S6 Ep18: Improving sanitation: What works and what doesn’t

257 - S6 Ep17: Improving worker well-being

256 - S6 Ep16: What have we learned about the informal sector?

255 - S6 Ep15: How poverty fell

254 - S5 Ep5: Development Dialogues: Who will pay for the global energy transition?

253 - S6 Ep14: Graduation programmes: BRAC’s approach to targeting the ultra-poor