VoxDev Development Economics
Episodes
S1 Ep15: Evidence to practice: Unintended consequences in the absence of data
16 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rodger Voorhies, Executive Director of Global Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, shares a first-hand account of the importance of emp...
S1 Ep46: The political economy of donor funding: Insights from USAID
12 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How does USAID decide how and where to channel its efforts?
S1 Ep14: Is aid effective?
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Development aid by its very nature is provided in messy environments, is often very political and has inherent negative incentives. In such situations...
S1 Ep13: Ideas for development
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this interview, Robin Burgess discusses three ideas to foster socioeconomic development. First, he discusses how important the quality of civil ser...
S1 Ep12: Achieving meaningful impact through aid
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Glennerster discusses her role at DFID, her work on promoting electoral debates in Sierra Leone, the importance of strengthening local institut...
S1 Ep11: Tackling food insecurity
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We lose about 5% of global GDP due to hunger related diseases, and the situation is getting worse with the number of people living in food insecurity ...
S1 Ep9: Meeting the Sustainable Development Goals
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The sustainable development goals have ushered in a new development paradigm. In this interview, Elliott Harris discusses the vision behind the creati...
S1 Ep8: The effects of pay inequality
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The idea that worker utility is affected by co-worker wages has potentially broad labour market implications. In a month-long experiment with Indian m...
S1 Ep7: What is holding firms back?
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Woodruff discusses the role management practices play in firm growth. Further, he explores different mechanisms for improving firm management in...
S1 Ep6: Globalisation and development
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
David Atkin explains why he thinks that globalisation has brought huge benefit to developing countries in terms of expanding their manufacturing secto...
S1 Ep5: Childcare and development
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing on lessons from Colombia and India, Orazio Attanasio of UCL discusses the roles, pre-existing welfare programmes' infrastructure, and parental...
S1 Ep4: If she builds it, they won’t come: The gender profit gap
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Male-owned firms earn nearly twice as much profit as female-owned firms. This difference is driven by a variance in the quantity of garments sold, rat...
S1 Ep3: Productivity and energy-saving technology
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How can we increase output per worker in countries like India and China where it is particularly low? Anant Nyshadham discusses one way to do so: by i...
S1 Ep2: Building a functional state in difficult places
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Building state functionality is difficult, and particularly so in fragile environments marred by weak institutions and political instability. Eliana L...
S1 Ep1: Building effective and functioning cities
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ed Glaeser explains why cities are the best pathway to prosperity and outlines three lessons from over 30 years of economics research on urbanisation....
S1 Ep1: Harnessing FDI in Africa
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The narrative around Africa has changed over the last decade with it now being heralded as the economic powerhouse of the future. Many countries in Su...
S1 Ep2: The backlash against globalisation
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
John Van Reenen, Professor at MIT Department of Economics and Sloan School of Management, gives a brief explanation of the ways that the current backl...
S1 Ep1: Paving a path to financial well-being
27 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tavneet Suri tells Tim Phillips about the rise of digital credit in Kenya. Who receives digital loans? What the loans are used for? How do they affect...