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In Pursuit of Development — 178 episodes
Why hope is what we need | Dan Banik
How civil society adapts when aid shrinks | Tikhala Itaye
Is Rwanda a development success? | Pritish Behuria
African agency at the crossroads | Dan Banik
How public institutions become captured | Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett
Why the UN looks different from the Global South | Alanna O’Malley
The poverty trap that kills a million people a year | Madhukar Pai
Can aid still fight poverty? | Elina Scheja
Can Asia still deliver the development dream? | Philip Schellekens
Urbanization, inequality and the future of development | Benjamin Bradlow
Why the middle class will shape global development | Homi Kharas
Artificial intelligence and the future of human decision-making | Francesco Marcelloni
Why India–China relations could reshape the global order | Manoj Kewalramani
Can philosophy save a world obsessed with power? | Thomas Pogge
Debt, development finance, and global agency | David McNair
Six economists and the making of modern development | David Engerman
Making evidence actually usable | Lindsey Moore
Vietnam’s remarkable development turnaround | Arve Hansen
Energy for growth on the African continent | Todd Moss
Looking back, thinking forward | Dan Banik
Climate, conflict and the development squeeze | Florian Krampe
Aid at the breaking point | Nilima Gulrajani
How Latin America sees the new Global South | Benedicte Bull
Borders, bargains, and the business of smuggling | Max Gallien
Solidarity in a divided world | Cecilia Bailliet
When evidence meets Washington politics | Dean Karlan
China’s evolving role in global development finance | Hong Bo
Power, policy, and the future of global development | Rachel Glennerster
Democracy against the odds | Happy Kayuni
The protest that changed Serbia | Nemanja Džuverović
Why choosing sides is out of style | Jorge Heine
Who gains from AI? Human development in a divided world | Pedro Conceição
Africa’s pulse: Listening to citizens in an age of uncertainty | Joseph Asunka
Bangladesh: How a ‘basket case’ became a development pioneer | Naomi Hossain
How to Save the United Nations from Financial Meltdown | Ronny Patz
From crisis to possibility | Dan Banik
Empowering Bureaucrats for Better Government Performance — Dan Honig
Rising Powers and the New Global Order — Rohan Mukherjee
Great Power Competition and the Global South — Ilaria Carrozza
Politics, power, and resistance — Ian Shapiro
Administrative Capacity and Its Impact on Development in Pakistan — Sameen A. Mohsin Ali
Infrastructure, Governance, and Society in Modern Africa — Karuti Kanyinga
Politics of the Planet — Lan Marie Nguyen Berg
Tackling the Energy Access and Development Challenge — Jörg Ankel-Peters
The US-China Partnership That Transformed International Trade — Elizabeth Ingleson
Empowering Change: Leadership's Role in Global Development — Willem Fourie
Cityscapes and Sanctuaries: Exploring the Socio-Spatial and Religious Dynamics of Johannesburg and Lagos — Obvious Katsaura
Voices and Votes: Shaping the Democratic Landscape in Africa — Boniface Dulani
Democracy in the Balance: Navigating Latin America's Political Landscape — Gerardo Munck
The Globalization of Finance and Its Impact on State Building — Didac Queralt
The Genesis of the Human Development Report and Index — Meghnad Desai
Global Structural Reform: Poverty, Freedom, Justice, and Innovation — Thomas Pogge
The Future of Industrialization – Jostein Hauge
Development as a Right: Unpacking Principles and Practices — Surya Deva
Shifting Paradigms: The Global South and Feminist Political Economy Unveiled — Sara Stevano
Beyond Trade: China's Cultural and Political Relations in Africa – Joshua Eisenman
Accountability in Action: The World Bank's Inspection Panel on the Frontlines – Ramanie Kunanayagam
From Miracle to Menace: The Fight Against Plastic Pollution — Gloria Majiga
Decoding Development: The Crucial Role of Institutions – Shiping Tang
Making Sense of Cancer: Why Better Therapy Leads to More Disease – Jarle Breivik
Beyond Red Tape: Unraveling Bureaucratic Paradoxes in Public Service Delivery – Akshay Mangla
Unpacking the Backlash Against Globalization and its Impact on Inequality – Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
A New Horizon: Advancing Public Sector Reform in Africa – Happy Kayuni
Political Constraints in Growth and Development: Moving beyond talking about them to actually tackling them – Peter Evans
India's Aspirations on the Global Stage — Suhasini Haidar
Humanity's Enduring Quest for Power and Prosperity – Daron Acemoglu
Unveiling the Global Tapestry: Liberalism, Democracy, and the Path to Development – Francis Fukuyama
Unraveling Brazil's political and legal landscape – Conrado Hübner Mendes
Planet & Progress: Navigating Climate, Poverty, and Aid — Anne Beathe Tvinnereim
Forging New Paths in Challenging Geopolitical Landscapes — Stephen D. Krasner
Unleashing the Power of Business to Change the World — Raj Kumar
Using Evidence to Drive Policy and Achieve Lasting Development Impact — Rachel Glennerster
Unpacking the complexities of corruption — Daniel Agbiboa
How industrialization reshapes modern ethnic identities — Elliott Green
How China's digital entrepreneurs are redefining innovation and reshaping the global economy — Lin Zhang
Making every dollar count — Ryan Briggs
Patching development – Rajesh Veeraraghavan
Is economic growth the magic wand for ending poverty? — Charles Kenny
A more fragmented world — Helen Clark
The European Union and global development — Johanne Døhlie Saltnes
Banking on Beijing — Axel Dreher
Africa’s youth in the race for climate action — Hilda Flavia Nakabuye
Poverty and the new threat to prosperity — Indermit Gill
Rethinking "evidence" — Eivind Engebretsen and Mona Baker
Locally led development and the future of aid — Håvard Mokleiv Nygård
The Wild World of WhatsApp — Jamie Hitchen
Christmas special – The acronisation game
Just copy us! Why can’t the rest of the world be more like Scandinavia? — Harald Eia
Contemporary state building and elite taxation in Latin America — Gustavo Flores-Macías
The power of the Chinese state: Examination, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology — Yasheng Huang
Show me the money: Why cash transfers matter for development — Ugo Gentilini
Crises of democracy — Adam Przeworski
Silenced voices in global health — Address Malata
The development bargain — Stefan Dercon
Transforming our global food system — Gunhild Stordalen
Why we fight — Chris Blattman
Africa's right to development — Mo Ibrahim
The pursuit of liberty and prosperity along a narrow corridor — Daron Acemoglu
Can fixing dinner fix the planet? — Jessica Fanzo
The Life You Can Save — Peter Singer
Roadblock Politics — Peer Schouten
Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order — Kathryn Stoner
The power of ideas and metaphors in international development policy – Desmond McNeill
Breaking Bad: Understanding Backlash Against Democracy in Africa — Lise Rakner
A world of insecurity — Pranab Bardhan
Do morals matter? — Joseph S. Nye
Globalization and Asian Geopolitics — Shivshankar Menon
The power of small states — Ine Eriksen Søreide
Why we need a different system of global development — Jeffrey D. Sachs
Rich countries’ climate policies are colonialism in green — Vijaya Ramachandran
Is it the end of democracy in Africa? — Nic Cheeseman
Does the Nobel Peace Prize Promote Peace? — Henrik Urdal
Travelling While Black — Nanjala Nyabola
Beating the Odds: Jump-Starting Developing Countries — Justin Yifu Lin
Bangladesh's development journey — Imran Matin
States, markets and foreign aid — Simone Dietrich
The UN in a post-pandemic world — Achim Steiner
Local resistance against coal in Lamu, Kenya — Raya Ahmed, Omar Elmawi, Gino Cocchiaro
Living in a Materials World: Extractives on the road to Net Zero — Tony Addison
Electrifying India — Elizabeth Chatterjee
Why is the West obsessed with changing China? — Xu Qinduo
What went wrong with COVAX, the vast global vaccine program? — Katerini Storeng
Beyond the Bottom Billion — Paul Collier
The remarkable expansion of South–South Cooperation — Emma Mawdsley
Popular mobilization against dams in Myanmar — Kyungmee Kim
Politics of the poor — Indrajit Roy
Religion and democratic mobilization in Brazil – Amy Erica Smith
"Global Britain": Inspired vision or wishful thinking? — Mark Miller
How does digital technology affect healthcare? — Vincent Duclos
Reimagining development — Hannah Ryder
Navigating by judgment to achieve development impact — Dan Honig
Democracy and crisis response in India — Patralekha Chatterjee
The globalization of foreign aid — Liam Swiss
Nigeria and the inadequacies of the resource curse thesis – Zainab Usman
Can we domesticate the state or will it domesticate us? — James C. Scott
Population and development: Risks and opportunities — Lauren Johnston
Imperialism and the developing world — Atul Kohli
Summit diplomacy and African agency — Folashadé Soulé
India-Africa relations — Renu Modi
Corruption and political settlements — Mushtaq Khan
The impact of the sustainable development concept — Frank Biermann
The future of aid — Jonathan Glennie
Vaccine nationalism and vaccine equity — Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée
Knowledge production and network-building in China’s foreign relations — Lina Benabdallah
How to distribute a Covid-19 vaccine ethically — Aksel Braanen Sterri
How India became the "pharmacy of the world" — Rory Horner
Political violence and development — Patricia Justino
Gro Harlem Brundtland on sustainable development, global responses to COVID-19 and the role of the WHO
Political development and political decay — Francis Fukuyama
Simmering political tensions and civil war in Ethiopia — Kjetil Tronvoll
Economic boom, poverty reduction and corruption in China — Yuen Yuen Ang
The impact of democracy on economic growth — Carl Henrik Knutsen
Global inequality and the future of capitalism — Branko Milanovic
China-Africa relations — Eric Olander
Food insecurity and the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 — Ida Rudolfsen
Why democracy will prevail in the contest against authoritarian alternatives — Larry Diamond
What the West does not understand about China — Liu Baocheng
China’s Belt and Road Initiative and infrastructure development in Africa — Gyude Moore
Dam diplomacy and water sharing agreements in the Nile basin — Ashok Swain
Legislative development in Africa — Ken Ochieng' Opalo
Why AIDS interventions in Africa often fail — Kim Yi Dionne
India’s development and the political economy of growth — Kunal Sen
Globalization, the Nordic model and the economics of belonging — Martin Sandbu
The historic court ruling in Malawi annulling the 2019 presidential elections — Edge Kanyongolo
The need to politicize development economics — Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Pakistan's healthcare system and its recent success in fighting Covid — Usman Mushtaq
How Black Lives Matter is also a reckoning for foreign aid and international NGOs — Degan Ali
How is India handling the pandemic? A conversation with Tathagata Satpathy
The relevance of foreign aid — Bård Vegar Solhjell
Chinese aid and South-South Cooperation — Marina Rudyak
State capacity in Latin America — Benedicte Bull
Erik Solheim on sustainable development
Democracy, development and Covid response in Africa — Boniface Dulani
The population question
Dreaming of electricity
Crises and leadership
China in a post-Covid world
Introducing: In Pursuit of Development