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Hear about the cutting edge of development economics from research to practice. Each week Tim Phillips interviews experts who provide insightful commentary, analysis, and evidence on a wide...
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...
Decades of agricultural development policy have chased yield. Bigger harvests, better seeds, more fertiliser. But how can we make farming mo...
In 2017, Argentina had the highest corporate income tax rate in Latin America. Reducing it was politically popular and economically desirabl...
At the start of every planting season, smallholder farmers needs seeds and fertiliser, but the income from the harvest that would pay for th...
Rich people live longer than poor people in every country that researchers have studied. In the United States today, the gap in life expecta...
Eighty years after Indian independence, the economic fingerprint of British colonial rule is still visible at the district level. Two instit...
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...
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...
Between 2019 and 2023, the number of electronic transactions tripled in six Latin American economies. The share of adults using digital wall...
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...
For 70 years, a simple idea has shaped efforts to reduce prejudice: put people from different groups together under the right conditions, an...
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...
Particulate matter is, Michael Greenstone argues, the greatest public health threat on the planet. Worse than HIV, cigarettes, and alcohol....
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...
With the number of global refugees continuing to rise, integrating refugees has become a difficult challenge for hosts – and it is far from...
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...
Almost everywhere, women have less economic power than men, and earn less at work. Their commitment to childcare and work in the home gives...
Agricultural yields across sub-Saharan Africa are falling. We can create better seeds, fertilisers and insecticides which has the potential...
The new book The London Consensus is a large and very comprehensive successor to the Washington Consensus that dominated policymaking during...
Labor markets in poor countries are very different to labour markets in rich countries. Millions of young people in developing economies who...
Ideas in Development is VoxDev's new second podcast ! You can listen to Ideas in Development wherever you get your podcasts, or watch on You...
It’s one thing to enrol kids at school. But that is the beginning of their education. When they are there, they need to learn – and unless t...
When the work well, carbon markets worldwide decarbonise economies and direct funds to the most efficient projects. Yet for these mechanisms...
Many papers in economics have shown the scale of the damage that slavery did to Africa, but can we also make the argument that the slave tra...
At home, men usually have more money and more power than their female partners, and this inequality is particularly wide in LMICs. What does...
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is common everywhere, but how common? What are its causes and effects? How can we do a better job of noticin...
The modern state, and the way in which is governs, is clearly very important. It provides social programs, education, disaster relief or, on...
We think of trade-driven growth during the era of hyper-globalisation as having created many “growth miracles” since the 1990s. But how did...
How can we train the next generation of entrepreneurs? In developing economies, more than a billion dollars a year is spent on this type of...
What is the relationship between religion and economic development? Does economic development mean fewer people become religious, or more? W...
“ Africa must become a full participant in global knowledge production, not just a passive recipient of solutions from elsewhere.” The journ...
A fascinating new book called A Sixth of Humanity, Independent India’s Development Odyssey examines 75 years of development in the world’s m...
Policymakers and politicians like to talk about creating infrastructure like roads, schools and transport systems: how it grows the economy,...
Everywhere, women’s labour force participation is lower than men’s. There are many reasons to close this gap, but there are just as many rea...
When children are victims of bullying or social exclusion at school, it can be devastating for every part of their lives. This is a global p...
Macroeconomists know that our economic activity influences – and is influenced by – the natural environment in which it is embedded, but we...
How does culture affect development policy, and how does development policy affect culture? If we don’t take account of cultural norms or fa...
With record levels of armed conflict around the world in recent years, the study of conflict has gone from being a niche corner of economics...
In 2025, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is 50 years old. “Lessons and Priorities for a Changing World”, its 2025 G...
What happens from the moment goods are manufactured or harvested, until they are bought by consumers? As we know from experience, most of th...
Like all of us, healthcare providers bring their biases to work. But if those biases result in a reduced level of care for their patients, h...
In the second of our two podcasts with Francis Annan of UC Berkeley on his research on mobile money first in Ghana, then beyond, Tim Phillip...
How can we design digital financial inclusion that minimizes fraud and maximises the benefit to the community in rural, low-trust, or cash-h...
Stigma, shame and social norms around menstruation can prevent women and girls managing their periods with dignity and hygiene in low-income...
There is a long history of using “edutainment” – mass media storytelling, to pass on information about important social issues, and even to...
Many developed countries are creating immigration policies designed specifically to attract the most talented migrants. We often assume that...
In the second of our special episodes recorded at the 5th annual STEG conference, Lucas Conwell of UCL talks to Tim Phillips about how the p...
This week on VoxDev talks we have two special episodes recorded at the 5th annual STEG conference. STEG is a research initiative that aims t...
In October 2024, Prabowo Subianto became president of Indonesia. He inherits the “Golden Indonesia” vision: By the time the country celebrat...
In the latest episode of the collaboration between Yale’s Economic Growth Center and VoxDev, host Catherine Cheney discusses one of Africa’s...