Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice
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Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice is a society podcast hosted by LSE Department of International Development. It has 61 episodes, with the latest published March 2026.
These podcasts are recordings from the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice lecture series 2023/24, 2022/23, 2021/22 and 2020/21, a visiting lecture series coordinated by Professor of Development Studies, Professor James Putzel and Dr Laura Mann. The Cutting Edge series provides students and guests with fascinating insights into the practical world of international development. Renowned guest lecturers share their expertise and invite discussion on an exciting range of issues, from climate change policy, to pressing humanitarian crises. In 2020, the series took place online, enabling us to host fantastic speakers from around the world and to stream the lectures on YouTube, opening them up to a global audience. Now we are back in person but still recording the sessions to share with our global audience.
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S6, E8: Between trade wars, pink tariffs and green trade: (how) can we promote the trade-environment-development nexus today?
S6 E7: The Parent Trap: School Choice and Majoritarian Politics in India
S6 E6: Lives Counted: Measuring Mortality Through Revolution, Epidemic and War in Sudan
S6 E5: Historical Roots of the Crisis in Gaza
S6 E4: A feminist agenda for social change: from deregulated markets to the wellbeing economy
S6 E3: Infrastructure and Influence: China’s Digital Presence in the Global South and it's Developmental Impact
S6 E2: Rethinking the future of development aid
S6 E1: A New New International Economic Order (NNIEO) for a New Global Economy
S5, E8 Authoritarian Sanctuaries: Refugee Politics in East Africa
S5, E7 Competition, trade, and sustainability in agri-food markets in East & Southern Africa: a comparison of citrus and soy
S6, E6 A very light shade of green? Is the green transition perpetuating inequality?
S5, E5 The Sahelian Question: The ultra-periphery in a changing world
S5, E4 What's at stake in the US-China Trade War?
S5, E3 Re-examining the History of the Industrial Revolution
S5, E2 The crisis of peace-keeping
S5, E1 British Aid in a Changing World
S4, E14 What the Gene-Editing Revolution Means For Rural Welfare, Global Futures and Social Justice
S4, E13 Industrial Policy Challenges in the Developing World
S4, E12 The debt and climate change precipice: How can the global majority cope?
S4, E11 Bringing Cyberspace Down to Earth in China: From smart-cities to village digital projects
S4, E10 Slavery and British Development
S4, E9 Guest lecture on Palestine
S4, E8 Development or Dependence?: China's Investment and development finance in Africa
S4, E7 The Latin American Left: Opportunities, challenges, and setbacks
S4, E6 Gender and Work in Global Value Chains: Capturing the gains?
S4, E5 Making Anti-Corruption Real: A strategy for feasible reform in adverse contexts
S4, E4 The Russia-Ukraine War: Consequences for global security and development
S4, E3 In search of repair: The necessity of community development to mental health improvements in contexts of adversity
S4, E2 Confronting multiple Crises: A Conversation with Ha-Joon Chang on the State of the world economy
S4, E1 Book launch: Foreign Aid and its Unintended Consequences
S3, E5 Panel on Platforms for deliberation or disinformation? social media and development
S3, E4 Jayati Ghosh on Why Inequality is the Basic Driver of the Climate Crisis
S3,E3 Naomi Hossain on The Popular Politics of 21st Century Food and Fuel Riots
S3,E2 Dr Rafeef Ziadah - Working Palestine: COVID-19, labour and de-development in Palestine
S3,E1 Ha-Joon Chang – Economics vs Science Fiction – what can each learn from the other?
S2,E13 Isabella Weber – How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate
S2,E12 Lise Grande – Peacebuilding in Today's World
S2,E11 Irungu Houghton – Human rights organising in Africa during a global pandemic
S2,E10 Tasneem Essop – Outcomes of COP26 and Where Next on Climate?
S2,E9 Terhas Clark and Mosharraf Hossain – Disability, Development, Rights and Inclusion
S2,E8 Ingrid Srinath – COVID-19, Corporatisation and Closing Space: The Triple Threat to Civil Society in India
S2,E7 Agnes Kalibata – Paradigm Shifts in Food Systems
S2,E6 Jayati Ghosh – Access to Vaccines and the Limiting Role of Intellectual Property Rights and Pharma Monopolies
S2,E5 Mushtaq Khan – Making Anti-Corruption Effective: A New Approach
S2,E4 Clare Short – What's wrong with Aid?
S2,E3 Gabriel Palma – Why the Rich Stay Rich (no matter what)
S2, E2 Ha-Joon Chang – The Political Economy of Parasite (the movie)
S2, E1 The Implosion of the Afghan State: What next for women and the nation?
S1, E13 Mariana Mazzucato – A Mission Oriented Approach to Stakeholder Value
S1, E12 Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics: turning a radical idea into irresistible practice
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