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Latest episodes

Does Africa need development economics?

October 6, 2026 · 46 min

If every development economist stopped their research tomorrow, would Africa's growth rate in 2040 look any different? Ken Opalo, associate professor at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service and author of the Substack An Africanist…
GiveDirectly’s quest for scale

September 22, 2026 · 55 min

GiveDirectly started out as a small nimble team founded by PhD economists, who had a novel approach to ending poverty – just give cash. But they are no longer the new kids on the block, and have been scaling their operations rapidly in…
How BRAC partners with governments to fight poverty

September 8, 2026 · 50 min

The ultra-poor graduation approach has one of the strongest evidence bases in development. Almost all of that evidence comes from NGO delivery – but true scale typically requires government delivery. Stephanie Brockerhoff, Director for…
How to start an export boom

August 18, 2026 · 31 min

This interview was conducted by Exporters Without Borders (ESF), which incubates entrepreneurs to start new export industries in low and middle income countries. The video version of this podcast, an accompanying article, and their ongoing…
Has development economics lost its way?

July 7, 2026 · 53 min

What should development economists be working on – and how does their work actually reach the people making decisions? Rachel Glennerster, President of the Center for Global Development, whose career spans the research and policy sides of…

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How global supply chains are built – and how to actually attract investment

June 30, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

Bill McRaith spent his career building supply chains – from 1980s Britain, to a factory in Panyu, China in 1990, to Ethiopia three decades later. He joins Oliver Hanney to explain what really attracts manufacturing investment to a…
Stefan Dercon on elite bargains and kickstarting economic growth (via the AUL Podcast)

June 23, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

Slightly different episode today. This is a repost of a recent episode on the Africa Urban Lab's podcast, in which Kurtis Lockhart (who co-hosted our Cities series) interviews Stefan Dercon - very much an episode I wish I'd recorded! You…
Moving billions towards evidence

June 16, 2026 · 51 min

In 2022, Dean Karlan became Chief Economist at USAID, tasked with steering the world's largest bilateral aid agency towards evidence-backed approaches. He left in 2025, as the agency was being dismantled, having moved roughly $1.7 billion…
How Ethiopia reformed its economy

June 9, 2026 · 52 min

Ethiopia is one of Africa's most ambitious bets on export-led manufacturing. It’s also the site of one of the continent's boldest recent macroeconomic reform programmes. In this episode of the Ideas in Development series on growth, Oliver…
Aggregating evidence

June 2, 2026 · 46 min

The conversation about evidence-based policy usually asks why good evidence isn't shaping decisions. But we should also be asking, is the evidence base itself actually worthy of shaping policy? In this episode of Ideas in Development, Rafe…
The evidence gap on evidence use

May 26, 2026 · 38 min

Development economics has built a large empirical evidence base across a range of topics and policies – but how, when and where is it being used? We often assume that evidence will have an impact, but have surprisingly few answers to these…
Why Dani Rodrik changed his mind on manufacturing

May 21, 2026 · 58 min

This episode might sound a little different to normal, as it was recorded live.For decades, the standard prescription for growth in developing countries was clear: industrialise. Dani Rodrik used to argue that manufacturing was the…