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This is an episode from VoxDev's new podcast series, Ideas in Development. This series has a separate podcast feed, where you can find every episode of Oliver Hanney’s conversations on evidence. YouTube: https://www.yout…
Evidence-based policy: Why one good trial isn't enough

October 7, 2026 · 34 min

Medicine has run rigorous clinical trials since the 1940s. Development economists borrowed the structure of the trials during the credibility revolution. Chris Cotton (Queen's University) argues that they misunderstood an important part of…
Follow the paper trail

October 1, 2026 · 21 min

In Uganda, every sale between two VAT-registered firms reaches the tax authority twice. The seller reports it, and so does the buyer. But the two numbers rarely match. In Turkiye, a supplier that installs its first industrial robot doesn’t…
How politicians co-opt bureaucrats

September 29, 2026 · 27 min

How can we cut corruption in government, procurement that generates kickbacks for local politicians? We could hire officials on merit. Across the developing world, many governments now do exactly that. So why do public contracts still go…
Ideas in Development: How BRAC partners with governments to fight poverty

September 25, 2026 · 50 min

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No Taxation without Administration

September 23, 2026 · 40 min

Research on how to collect more tax in developing countries has focused on how information, especially administrative data, can help. But in Uganda for example, buyers and sellers report different amounts for the same VAT transaction in…
Rethinking development cooperation: The case for a 'balance sheet' approach

September 16, 2026 · 42 min

Many conversations about development for focus on aid: how much, from whom, and for how long. But aid has never been more than a small part of what pays for a country's development, and in 2025 it fell by 23.1%. The need to rethink our…
Cape Town's day zero: How data rebuilt a city's water resilience

September 9, 2026 · 38 min

By 2018 the reservoirs supplying Cape Town were down to 20% of capacity. If they reached 13.5%, the city would need to shut down parts of the water network and send residents to collection points to fetch water. That was known as Day Zero…
Fifty years of Chinese growth: The gradualist reform strategy explained

September 2, 2026 · 34 min

In 1978, a farmer in rural China could not sell a sack of grain above the state quota, choose an employer, or move to the nearest city without a permit. In this week's VoxDev Talk, Kaiji Chen and Tao Zha (both Emory University and Atlanta…
Caste, race, and power: The barriers to political inclusion

August 26, 2026 · 35 min

The ballot cast by a landless labourer counts the same as the one cast by the landlord whose fields he works. In this way, democracy can give excluded or subordinate groups access to political power. That's not what has happened, at least…
Masculinity norms and their economic implications

August 19, 2026 · 27 min

Do economists treat what men do as normal human behaviour, and then study norms around women as a departure? If so, we need to pay more attention what we mean by masculinity. That's what Pauline Grosjean (University of New South Wales…
How global supply chains are built

August 14, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

This is an episode from VoxDev's new podcast series, Ideas in Development. This series has a separate podcast feed, where you can find every episode of Oliver Hanney’s conversations with leading development thinkers. YouTube…