Podcast Episodes

The UN in a post-pandemic world — Achim Steiner

Season 3 Episode 7

Achim Steiner is UNDP Administrator. He has served across the United Nations system. He was the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nair…

4 years, 11 months ago

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Local resistance against coal in Lamu, Kenya — Raya Ahmed, Omar Elmawi, Gino Cocchiaro

Season 3 Episode 6

Guests:

Raya Ahmed is a climate justice defender from Lamu. She holds Bachelor of Science in Development Studies and is the founder of Lamu Women Alli…

5 years ago

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Living in a Materials World: Extractives on the road to Net Zero — Tony Addison

Season 3 Episode 5

Tony Addison is a Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen in the Development Economics Research Group. He was a Chief Economist and Deputy D…

5 years ago

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Electrifying India — Elizabeth Chatterjee

Season 3 Episode 4

Dr. Elizabeth Chatterjee is an assistant professor of environmental history at the University of Chicago. Her research explores how non-Western energ…

5 years ago

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Why is the West obsessed with changing China? — Xu Qinduo

Season 3 Episode 3

Xu Qinduo is a political analyst, news columnist and an adjunct professor at Renmin University’s School of Journalism and Communication. He is also a…

5 years ago

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What went wrong with COVAX, the vast global vaccine program? — Katerini Storeng

Season 3 Episode 2

Katerini Storeng is an associate professor at the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo.  She directs the interdiscipl…

5 years ago

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Beyond the Bottom Billion — Paul Collier

Season 3 Episode 1

Welcome to season 3!

Our first guest this season is Sir Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government a…

5 years, 1 month ago

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The remarkable expansion of South–South Cooperation — Emma Mawdsley

Season 2 Episode 24

Welcome to the final episode of season 2. We’ve had some great guests this season and the show has attracted thousands of new listeners in large part…

5 years, 4 months ago

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Popular mobilization against dams in Myanmar — Kyungmee Kim

Season 2 Episode 23

Many of you may have heard about instances of local communities mobilising against the construction of dams in various parts of the world. But it tur…

5 years, 4 months ago

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Politics of the poor — Indrajit Roy

Season 2 Episode 22

Even though the world is richer today than ever before, a large number of people do not share in those riches, even in democracies. So, what does liv…

5 years, 4 months ago

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