Podcast Episodes

Religion and democratic mobilization in Brazil – Amy Erica Smith

Season 2 Episode 21

In a splendid book titled– Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God –  Amy Erica Smith examines the causes and consequences of …

5 years, 4 months ago

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"Global Britain": Inspired vision or wishful thinking? — Mark Miller

Season 2 Episode 20

Following Brexit, Britain has expressed a desire to play an important new role in world affairs. The idea of "Global Britain" has thus made a comebac…

5 years, 5 months ago

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How does digital technology affect healthcare? — Vincent Duclos

Season 2 Episode 19

There is considerable attention on the pivotal role that digital technology can play in providing better healthcare. The term “digital health” is bro…

5 years, 5 months ago

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Reimagining development — Hannah Ryder

Season 2 Episode 18

Do current “development” structures work? If not, why? And what solutions are out there that place greater agency in low-income countries to shape th…

5 years, 5 months ago

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Navigating by judgment to achieve development impact — Dan Honig

Season 2 Episode 17

In an excellent book on how aid agencies manage foreign aid projects, Dan Honig argues that tight top-down controls and a focus on target-setting and…

5 years, 5 months ago

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Democracy and crisis response in India — Patralekha Chatterjee

Season 2 Episode 16

India is experiencing a devastating second wave of the pandemic. Indeed, the country appears to be going through one of the darkest moments in its po…

5 years, 5 months ago

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The globalization of foreign aid — Liam Swiss

Season 2 Episode 15

Why do aid agencies from wealthy donor countries with diverse domestic political and economic contexts arrive at very similar positions on certain fo…

5 years, 6 months ago

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Nigeria and the inadequacies of the resource curse thesis – Zainab Usman

Season 2 Episode 14

There is considerable academic literature on the resource curse thesis which aims to explain why resource-rich countries have not benefited from thei…

5 years, 6 months ago

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Can we domesticate the state or will it domesticate us? — James C. Scott

Season 2 Episode 13

With many path-breaking books, James C. Scott has for long been a key figure in Southeast Asian Studies and in the comparative study of agrarian soci…

5 years, 6 months ago

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Population and development: Risks and opportunities — Lauren Johnston

Season 2 Episode 12

An article in The Economist magazine in September 2018 argued that high birth rates is one of the main culprits for pervasive poverty on the African …

5 years, 6 months ago

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