S7 Ep26: Ed Glaeser on the perfect city and the demons of density
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S7 Ep25: Roshaneh Zafar on 30 years of microfinance and mindset change in Pakistan
Wherever Roshaneh Zafar went in Pakistan in the early 1990s, documenting World Bank social development projects, women told her the same thi...
S7 Ep24: Leonard Wantchekon on youth and governance in African cities
This is an episode from VoxDev's new podcast series, Ideas in Development. This series has a separate podcast feed , where you can find ever...
S7 Ep23: How killing sparrows contributed to the Great Chinese Famine
Between 1959 and 1961, between thirty and forty million people starved to death in China. The Great Famine had many causes, and one of them...
S7 Ep22: Chris Blattman on how organised crime takes over cities
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S7 Ep21: Boosting farmers' profits
Decades of agricultural development policy have chased yield. Bigger harvests, better seeds, more fertiliser. But how can we make farming mo...
S7 Ep20: Argentina’s 2017 tax reform
In 2017, Argentina had the highest corporate income tax rate in Latin America. Reducing it was politically popular and economically desirabl...
S7 Ep19: Can digital credit unlock investment in smallholder farms?
At the start of every planting season, smallholder farmers needs seeds and fertiliser, but the income from the harvest that would pay for th...
S7 Ep18: The complex link between poverty and health
Rich people live longer than poor people in every country that researchers have studied. In the United States today, the gap in life expecta...
S7 Ep17: The long shadow of British rule: India's colonial legacy
Eighty years after Indian independence, the economic fingerprint of British colonial rule is still visible at the district level. Two instit...
S7 Ep14: Ideas in Development: Raghuram Rajan on AI, India, and service-led growth
This is an episode from VoxDev's new podcast series, Ideas in Development. This series has a separate podcast feed, where you can find the e...
S7 Ep16: The rise and fall of China's overseas lending
China became the world's largest bilateral creditor to developing countries over two decades, and for most of that time the scale of what it...
S7 Ep15: The rise of digital payments in Latin America
Between 2019 and 2023, the number of electronic transactions tripled in six Latin American economies. The share of adults using digital wall...
S7 Ep13: Ideas in Development: Josh Lerner on the diffusion of technology
This is an episode from VoxDev's new podcast series, Ideas in Development. This series has a separate podcast feed, where you can find the e...
S7 Ep12: Can contact between groups reduce prejudice?
For 70 years, a simple idea has shaped efforts to reduce prejudice: put people from different groups together under the right conditions, an...
S7 Ep11: Transport policy for economic development
In cities across low- and middle-income countries, traffic crawls 24 hours a day. In Dhaka during rush hour, speeds average around 15km/h. A...
S7 Ep10: Reducing air pollution: Can markets succeed where regulation fails?
Particulate matter is, Michael Greenstone argues, the greatest public health threat on the planet. Worse than HIV, cigarettes, and alcohol....
S7 Ep9: How skilled migration from Asia reshaped the US economy
A small number of Asian countries have provided thousands of high-skilled migrants to the US, many of whom have gone on to great success. Wh...
S7 Ep8: Integrating refugees: What policies work best?
With the number of global refugees continuing to rise, integrating refugees has become a difficult challenge for hosts – and it is far from...
S7 Ep7: Can AI take off in Africa?
In this episode of Ideas in Development, we ask what needs to happen before AI can take off in Africa. Rose Mutiso talks us through the curr...
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