Podcast Episodes

What the West does not understand about China — Liu Baocheng

Season 1

Much of the discourse in the Western media in recent months has highlighted the rising tensions between the United States and China and the growing a…

6 years ago

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative and infrastructure development in Africa — Gyude Moore

Season 1 Episode 21

A couple of months ago, Liberia’s former minister of public works, Gyude Moore argued in a popular Tweet that Western critiques of Beijing’s ambitiou…

6 years ago

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Dam diplomacy and water sharing agreements in the Nile basin — Ashok Swain

Season 1 Episode 20

The growing tensions between the Nile Basin countries – Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan – over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has made news headlines…

6 years, 1 month ago

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Legislative development in Africa — Ken Ochieng' Opalo

Season 1 Episode 19

Studying the role of institutions and their evolution often helps us better understand political and economic development in countries all over the w…

6 years, 1 month ago

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Why AIDS interventions in Africa often fail — Kim Yi Dionne

Season 1 Episode 18

As the international community addresses numerous development challenges, we must often pause, reflect, and ask: Do good intentions lead to good resu…

6 years, 1 month ago

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India’s development and the political economy of growth — Kunal Sen

Season 1 Episode 17

With the phenomenal growth of its economy in recent years and its longstanding democratic record, India — the world's largest democracy — has emerged…

6 years, 1 month ago

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Globalization, the Nordic model and the economics of belonging — Martin Sandbu

Season 1 Episode 16

Martin Sandbu has an exciting new book, The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All  (Princ…

6 years, 2 months ago

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The historic court ruling in Malawi annulling the 2019 presidential elections — Edge Kanyongolo

Season 1 Episode 15

In a landmark ruling in February of this year, Malawi’s High Court concluded that the country’s president Peter Mutharika was “not duly elected”. The…

6 years, 2 months ago

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The need to politicize development economics — Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

Season 1 Episode 14

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven's research focuses on the role of finance in development, structural features of underdevelopment, the political economy of…

6 years, 2 months ago

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Pakistan's healthcare system and its recent success in fighting Covid — Usman Mushtaq

Season 1 Episode 13

As the Covid pandemic continues to dominate world headlines, there is growing interest in better understanding how some low and middle-income countri…

6 years, 2 months ago

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