S7 Ep44: Fifty years of Chinese growth: The gradualist reform strategy explained
In 1978, a farmer in rural China could not sell a sack of grain above the state quota, choose an employer, or move to the nearest city witho...
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S7 Ep43: Caste, race, and power: The barriers to political inclusion
The ballot cast by a landless labourer counts the same as the one cast by the landlord whose fields he works. In this way, democracy can giv...
S7 Ep42: Masculinity norms and their economic implications
Do economists treat what men do as normal human behaviour, and then study norms around women as a departure? If so, we need to pay more atte...
S7 Ep41: How global supply chains are built
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 Ep40: Using mobile phones to support teachers, parents, and students
More households in low-income countries own a mobile phone than have electricity or clean water. So why is education one of the last places...
S7 Ep39: Ideas in Development: Moving billions to evidence
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 Ep38: How AI can put 20 years of development evidence to work
A farmer in rural Ghana can use her phone to take a picture of a blighted leaf, upload it, and within seconds she gets a diagnosis that take...
S7 Ep37: Why businesses stay small in emerging markets
If you walk down a street in a low-income country, count the businesses you can see, you will miss many entirely. Someone who cooks at home...
S7 Ep36: Climate Change Politics in Developing Countries
A river dries up. The soil turns salty. A harvest fails. Farmers across the developing world feel climate change constantly and personally,...
S7 Ep35: Ideas in Development: Has development economics lost its way?
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 Ep34: Why farmers struggle to adopt new agricultural technology
How many maize seeds should farmers plant in each hole? Ask the farmers and they say two or three. Agronomists can show them more reliable s...
S7 Ep33: Interpersonal violence costs the world more than war
Wars get the headlines. A civil war can wreck a country's economy and dominate its news for a decade. But if you assume war is the most cost...
S7 Ep32: Courts in the Global South
How do courts work when they work well? You would expect them to be impartial, neutral, and consistent. In much of the Global South that is...
S7 Ep31: Nonelite Women's Participation in Politics
The usual way to measure women's power in politics is to count the seats they hold in parliament. But most women who take part in politics n...
S7 Ep30: The end of aid dependency
This episode follows a wide-ranging panel convened at Stanford's King Center on Global Development, featuring Gyude Moore, as well as Gates...
S7 Ep29: What the $1-a-day global poverty line gets wrong
It's 1990. A young staff economist walks into a director's office at the World Bank and says the number he's about to publish is "crazy". Th...
S7 Ep28: Why civil service reform fails (and what actually works)
Every civil service reform plan opens with the same list of complaints: poor performance, low motivation, weak accountability. Across six Af...
S7 Ep27: The World Bank's East Asian Miracle
In 1993, the World Bank published a report on a remarkable development story. East Asia's post-war growth — Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong...
S7 Ep26: Ed Glaeser on the perfect city and the demons of density
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 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...