Lovely conversation
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(This comparison was suggested by Toby Ord at the University of Oxford. To find out more about Toby listen to this edition of Development Drums.)
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Owen Barder, Senior Fellow and Director for Europe of the Center for Global Development last week posted a talk online, adapted from his Kapuściński Lecture of May 2012, in which he explores t...
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governments like to admit failure. As Tim Harford, a UK economist, argues in this excellent “Development Drums” podcast, governments, and aid donors for that matter, have strong incentives ...
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governments like to admit failure. As Tim Harford, a UK economist, argues in this excellent "Development Drums" podcast, governments, and aid donors for that matter, have strong incentives to s...
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What is the reference to the "59%" number mentioned in the beginning?
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Great lecture!
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became involved in Giving What We Can after hearing a Development Drums interview with Toby Ord (one of Giving What We Can’s founders). Looking into them led me to chat with their
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Jerven is spot-on in his observations on the current state of development economics. I reached similar conclusions after reading many development economists' perspectives on Africa. There would s...
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Jerven is spot-on in his observations on the current state of development economics. I reached similar conclusions after reading many development economists' perspectives on Africa. There would s...
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Owen, thanks for giving a great interview. You were great at leading the discussion to get the most useful bits of information out of him, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of preparation went int...
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Daniel Kaufmann and Mushtaq Khan talk about corruption in the latest edition of Development Drums.
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adapt as they find out whether they are heading in the right direction. (This point is well made in a recent Development Drums podcast featuring Tim Harford talking about his book, Adapt: Why Su...
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can listen to Development Drums directly on the website, download it to your MP3 player, or subscribe free of charge in
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Owen Barder hosts a fascinating discussion about what data means for international development on his podcast Development Drums. → Why listen? Thorough and well-informed thoughts from two
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Africa: Why Economists Get it Wrong and why there is no “bottom billion”
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Development Drums with Owen Barder and Econ Talk with Russ Roberts.
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fairness I’ve read dozens of articles on Peter Singer, searched out countless podcast interviews and sent his TED talk to everyone I know. Therefore, admittedly, there was nothing that he ...
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Behavioral Economics and Development Economics
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When are there going to be new episodes Owen? I've been really enjoying working through the archives but I want to hear new episodes!
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HERE is a very interesting interview with Nina Munk, author of ‘The Idealist‘.
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This is a great presentation. I will use it on my onine course- Working in, and with, complex market systems. This is a technical question that I have- your pdf trasncripts- how did you save your...
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way into my podcast queue. I also accidentally stumbled across an inspiring Development Drums podcast interviewing Toby Ord about the principles behind Giving What We
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is exactly the same requiring suppliers to list ingredients on packaging (and put me in mind of this amazing podcast, in part about Tesco’s and immigration patterns). @carljackmiller called f...
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In reply to Ben. Hi Ben We use PodsInPrint. It looks to me as if their website has been hacked so I won't give you the...
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Hi Owen, Quick question -- who do you use to produce the transcripts for the series? I'm producing some podcasts and need to find a good transcriber! Many thanks, Ben
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to pick-up mobile data from the ground network, so deprived of email I found a pre-downloaded Development Drums podcast to listen to, which turned out to feature the Global Centre for Developmen...
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when Europeans didn’t know what a bath was”) but Ben Ramalingam and Stefan Dercon’s debate on the usefulness of complexity science for aid was a
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change happen, we shouldn’t be watching aid money being given away like this. I was asked in an interview what I would do with the aid budget if it were, as I was arguing, cut and redirected...
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drums podcast, to get back in tune with the more policy side of development. It was about the Data Revolution, one that came out a few weeks
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I think there's a problem with the server... :( I have tried to download edition #44 but I haven't been able to. Do you have any ideas on why is it happening?
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a fascinating conversation on data over on Development Drums A fascinating conversation on what now? The data
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I'm new to the whole field of development, but having stumbled into the area, I can't get enough of Owen's masterful podcasts - 60 minutes of unpicked and repacked dev stuff for laymen. Keep it c...
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I have been binge listening and this has been the best episode so far. Congrats Owen, awesome show!
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Listen here to an interview with Nina Munk. Listen here to an interview with Jeffrey Sachs, responding to the book and, more generally, to critics of the Millennium Villages project (hat tip...
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A brilliant and thought-provoking podcast on a really important subject. This should be required listening...and Nina Munk's book required reading...for anyone involved in development. As a VSO v...
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lezen en luisteren?- Bestel hier het boek The Idealist van Nina Munk.- Luister naar een interview met Nina Munk, en hier naar de reactie van Jeffrey Sachs op het boek (met dank aan Lukasz Marc v...
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between the aforementioned Daniel Kaufmann and the heterodox economist Professor Mushtaq Khan. In the podcast, which was recorded back in 2009, Khan turns the assertion of Kaufmann and mainstrea...
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confess that until Martin Tisne turned me on to this Development Drums podcast, I’d known Mushtaq Khan mostly as reverently cited sage that kept cropping up again and again
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lessons, which are discussed and summarized in the podcast Development Drums in which Nina is interviewed, are important for everyone wishing to do something good in this
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