GDP - The Global Development Primer

By Dr. Robert Huish

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The Global Development Primer podcast is about all issues in Global Development. Your host is Professor Bob Huish, broadcasting from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The podcast covers a wide range of issues in International Development and features the work of researchers, practitioners, and policy makers from around the world. This is your podcast to learn more about the latest and most pressing issues in Global Development.

Episode Date
What is holding Human Development Back? The Fog of Misperception.
May 14, 2024
India's greatest strength and toughest challenge: Diversity
May 08, 2024
It's Gone Off the Rails: The Global Sustainability Crisis.
Apr 30, 2024
Meet your New Neighbours: Why Cities Need More Help for Migration and Climate Crises
Apr 23, 2024
Send in the Clowns: Why Vladimir Putin Fears Comedians.
Apr 02, 2024
Right Now, We Need You: A Story of Advocacy From a Father and Son Living with Autism
Mar 26, 2024
Live with the Tension: Rethinking Development Politics
Mar 19, 2024
Soledad: What life is like for imprisoned asylum seekers in the United States
Mar 12, 2024
Is Development Dead? Far from it: Get Ready For A New Era of Global Development Education
Mar 05, 2024
The "Multilateralverse": What Multilateral firms do for development, and how you can join them.
Feb 27, 2024
To the bankers: Better community-based savings and financing could lead to a more peaceful planet.
Feb 20, 2024
Think getting your grandparents connected to new technology is tricky? Try 3.7 billion people. Digitalization and International Development.
Feb 13, 2024
Special Feature: Why Ukraine Is Running Low On Ammunition & Support on the Bill Kelly Podcast.
Feb 06, 2024
El miedo en el medio del mundo: Gang Violence Takes Ecuador.
Jan 30, 2024
So you want to work in Global Development? Here's how.
Jan 23, 2024
Scaling Up Development: Why it is mission critical.
Jan 16, 2024
The Scarcest Resource in the Middle East is Trust: How Water Management Could be a building block towards peace.
Nov 02, 2023
A burger with a side order of methane: The Staggering Consequences of Animal Industrial Agriculture
Oct 24, 2023
Why Humanitarian Hurt is Being Used as a Military Tactic in Gaza.
Oct 17, 2023
The Deep Digital Divide & Frugal Innovation
Oct 10, 2023
Striking Today & Voting Tomorrow: How Youth Activists are tackling the climate crisis.
Oct 03, 2023
🇰🇵"Kim Jong Gone"? Pursuing human rights and doing research in North Korea. 🇰🇵
Oct 02, 2023
Who is trying to help? The Commitment to Global Development Index.
Sep 26, 2023
Development Beyond Brexit: Furthering Global Britain in East Africa.
Sep 19, 2023
Why The Vegas Buffet, Isn't The Way: Digging into the hunger project.
Sep 12, 2023
Ponying up for the New Green Industrial Age
Apr 20, 2023
What we need to do to avoid the next Global Pandemic.
Apr 06, 2023
The Foggy Crystal Ball: Global Development by 2050
Mar 28, 2023
Men Lead and Women Deliver: Global Health's Glass Ceiling.
Mar 20, 2023
Could feminism fend off threats to our democracies? You better believe it can.
Mar 08, 2023
Leaning into Uncomfortable Spaces: Strategies for dealing with Permacrisis
Feb 28, 2023
Ay-Ay-Ay, an episode on AI: How ChatGpt will impact teaching, learning, development work, and even podcasts.
Feb 21, 2023
Is it Business as Usual? Why Private Partnerships continue to be a cornerstone of Global Development.
Feb 14, 2023
When the World Went Upside down: A Conversation with Luis Martínez-Fernández
Feb 07, 2023
Tell me a story: The Power & Purpose of Memoirs.
Jan 31, 2023
The Last Line of Defence: The World Bank's Inspection Panel.
Jan 24, 2023
It's like a Fellini Film: Dissent In & Exodus Out Of Cuba.
Jan 17, 2023
Inclusive Disability Relief in Moldova: A Commitment to Action
Nov 08, 2022
Learning from the Afterlife of Genocide: Chronicles of Guatemala.
Oct 27, 2022
Any is too much: How the Out of the Shadows Index can be used to prevent child exploitation around.
Oct 12, 2022
Minding The Renter Wealth Equity Gap.
Oct 04, 2022
Innovate like your life depends on it...because it does.
Sep 28, 2022
The Clinton Global Initiative returns to a world with more challenges than ever before.
Sep 22, 2022
We Say No! How a feminist development organization in Sierra Leone is turning the Development Industry on its head.
Sep 06, 2022
Possibility in a World Hungry for Hope: The 2022 Clinton Global Initiative.
Aug 30, 2022
The Slow Pandemic: Antimicrobial Resistance
Aug 22, 2022
Dance, Thrive and Grow: How one community development project in Uganda protects traditional knowledge.
Aug 15, 2022
When a Breadbasket Burns: The Global Food Crisis of 2022
Aug 08, 2022
Working in Exile: How development practitioners will get the job done in the post-pandemic world.
Jun 13, 2022
Hiding in Plain Sight: Why Savings and Credit are Still Essential to Crushing Poverty.
May 24, 2022
Terrorism a thing of the past? Not so fast!
May 11, 2022
Relief Chief: A discussion on the new paradigm of humanitarian assistance.
May 03, 2022
The World's Poor will Pay the Highest Price.
Apr 26, 2022
Defeating Viruses Through Trust & Compassion: Chronicles from Eswatini.
Apr 11, 2022
It is expensive to be poor: Why microfinance and digital banking is needed now more than ever.
Apr 04, 2022
Introducing "The African Scholar Podcast": How one professor is working to break down barriers of knowledge access.
Mar 28, 2022
Praise for the Online Classroom: Talking about the potential of online higher education coming out of the pandemic.
Mar 21, 2022
Getting Sick Of The Pandemic Campus: Chronicles of Virtual Higher Education.
Mar 14, 2022
North Korea's Dirty Laundry: Cryptocurrencies
Mar 07, 2022
Heroes of the past & victims of today: A Twitter investigation reveals what the ‘freedom convoy,’ Islamophobes, incels and Hindu supremacists have in common.
Feb 28, 2022
The Delineation Between War and Peace is Rubbish: Understanding the crisis in Ukraine.
Feb 22, 2022
Why so many Coups? And why now?: Looking at the state of democracy in Africa.
Nov 16, 2021
Enormous Risk and Enormous Potential: The State of Global Climate Politics in 2021.
Nov 09, 2021
Rebrand This, Mr. Z: How Social Media Has Weaponized Disinformation Against Democracies.
Nov 02, 2021
Out of the Box and Into the Shadows: The Pandora Papers
Oct 07, 2021
Pandemic, Pricks & Passports: Why COVID-19 will likely deepen global divisions and mistrust among us all.
Oct 01, 2021
It's going to be an interesting 10 years: Adaptation, Climate Change and the Future of International Development
Sep 21, 2021
Defund the Police! Supporting Black Communities by changing the nature of policing.
Sep 14, 2021
Beyond Two Sword's Lengths Apart: Exploring The House Democracy Partnership
Sep 07, 2021
Planned Chaos: Chronicles of Research in Theatre for Development
Aug 31, 2021
Oh Canada, Where Art Thou? Canada's Role in International Democracy Assistance.
Aug 24, 2021
Cancel That Order: COVID-19's Impact on the Global Restaurant Industry.
Aug 17, 2021
Hate Thrives in Apathy: Understanding How White Extremism is a Threat to Democracy.
Jun 08, 2021
🇲🇼 It’s a Fragile Environment: A look at post-pandemic development challenges in Malawi 🇲🇼
Jun 01, 2021
Healing the Heart: How One Program Empowers North Korean Refugees to Find Their Own Voices
May 26, 2021
🦄 They're not magical unicorns: Women leaders & The COVID-19 Pandemic. 🦄
May 20, 2021
"It doesn't mean invading another country and occupying it": What democracy assistance is really all about.
May 10, 2021
Why the Greatest Political Idea of the 20th Century Needs a Bit of Assistance Today.
May 03, 2021
Post-Pandemic Paternity: The role of men, fatherhood, and caregiving as allies for gender equality.
Apr 26, 2021
Choose to Challenge: The State of Global Health for International Women's Day 2021
Mar 08, 2021
There's Safety in Numbers: Making the Case for Trauma Registries in Global Health
Feb 09, 2021
The Downfall of Democracy in Myanmar.
Feb 03, 2021
Trump's Last Act of Vandalism - Listing Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.
Jan 25, 2021
Go Further Upstream! The Policy Folly of Saskatchewan's 2nd wave of COVID-19.
Jan 18, 2021
There is no straight line: The exciting, adaptable, and remarkable careers, of International Development Studies graduates.
Jan 11, 2021
The Wrong Prescription: The Place of Medical Tourism Amid a Global Pandemic.
Jan 04, 2021
Confronting the Desire for Development: Delving into the psychoanalysis of International Development Studies
Dec 28, 2020
Mining the Truth: Why a Publisher Buried a Book Exposing Human Rights abuses by Canadian Mining Companies in Guatemala.
Dec 21, 2020
Not On The Menu: Why the global food system triggered the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dec 14, 2020
In Defence of 2020: Why we shouldn't blame a calendar for our global calamities.
Dec 07, 2020
If you thought pandemic disruption was tough? Let's talk about climate change.
Nov 03, 2020
The Colonial Present
Oct 27, 2020
🇨🇺 Cuba's Compassion in a time of COVID 🇨🇺
Oct 20, 2020
Despite a pandemic, human slavery is alive and well. Here's what you need to know:
Oct 13, 2020
⚾️ Play Ball! Understanding Sport for Development and Peace 🏀
Oct 06, 2020
Looking to the Future with Burdens of the Past: Addressing Post-Conflict Mental Health in Uganda.
Sep 29, 2020
🇬🇭 The Gender Dynamics of Dinnertime: Looking at Food Insecurity and Gender in Ghana 🇬🇭
Sep 22, 2020
🇲🇦 Liquid Gold: A Story of Cooperation, Women's Empowerment, & Disrespectful Goats in Morocco. 🇲🇦
Sep 15, 2020
1.3 billion and not out: How India is faring through the COVID19 Pandemic.
Sep 08, 2020
It's Well Beyond Viruses: The Face of Global Digital Security Threats in post-Pandemic World .
Sep 01, 2020
🎓Teach by Example: Tips for Teaching Online During COVID-19 🎓
Aug 25, 2020
Why Social Justice is the Best Medicine During a Pandemic.
Jul 21, 2020
WE Have a Problem! Taking a closer look into Canada's WE Charity Controversy.
Jul 14, 2020
A River Runs Through It: Geopolitics, Climate Change and Development in South Asia.
Jul 07, 2020
🇷🇼There's Nothing Healthy about Gender Inequality: Understanding the gender-dynamics of health & health care in Rwanda. 🇷🇼
Jun 30, 2020
"Get Off Your Donkey": How to build a career in social entrepreneurship and international development.
Jun 23, 2020
🥕The Adventures of Herbert Gro-cart and Friends: Mobile Urban Agriculture in Vancouver" 🥕
Jun 16, 2020
Into the Online World: How to Approach Online Learning Environments.
Jun 12, 2020
Dr. Travel Agent: Exploring the serious shortcomings of medical tourism.
Jun 09, 2020
📖 Out-Innovate: How Global Entrepreneurs from Delhi to Detroit are Rewriting the Rules of Silicon Valley (An Interview with the Author) 📖
Jun 02, 2020
Asia's Recovery from COVID-19: The Role of the Asian Development Bank.
May 26, 2020
Turned Upside Down: How Universities Are Coping With COVID-19.
May 12, 2020
🇨🇺Cuban Medical Internationalism 2.0: The Development of Cuban medical outreach from the Americas to the Pacific. 🇨🇺
Apr 28, 2020
Beyond GDP: Why International Development needs a new way to measure success.
Apr 20, 2020
🇹🇳The Right to Rave: The Development of Youth Activism in Tunisia 🇹🇳 .
Apr 13, 2020
🇬🇹In Search of Providence: Mayan Border Crossings in a time of marginality, violence & exclusion. 🇬🇹
Apr 06, 2020
Addressing COVID-19 Globally and Locally: A panel discussion wrap up.
Mar 28, 2020
Risk Governance or Risky Governance: How to Approach Uncertainty and the Precautionary Principle during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mar 28, 2020
How to go beyond fighting illness to start caring for people: Why the Trump Whitehouse approach to COVID19 is a risk to itself and to the world.
Mar 28, 2020
We're hoping to have some positive results soon. Developing a vaccine for COVID-19.
Mar 28, 2020
Outbreaks start at 4:30pm on Friday: Behind the Scenes of Pandemic Planning.
Mar 28, 2020
🇬🇹Rolling the Dice on the Dinner Plate: The Development of Agriculture Financialization in Guatemala. 🇬🇹
Mar 23, 2020
🇬🇹Journeys Of Development in Guatemala. George Lovell discusses his book: A Beauty that Hurts. 🇬🇹
Mar 16, 2020
Martyrdom? Peace-building? Community Resilience? The Development of Masculine Identities of Activism in the Middle East:
Mar 10, 2020
The Iron Lady's Legacy on Development: Thatcherism, Neoliberalism, and Austerity. 🇬🇧
Mar 03, 2020
Hungry for Food Sovereignty in Development
Feb 24, 2020
💔 Chocolate 🍫, Flowers 💐, Diamonds 💎& Disappointment 😔: Why the Political Economy of Love Ruins the Romance of Valentine's Day 💔
Feb 15, 2020
🥰 What's Love Got to Do with Development? 🥰
Feb 14, 2020
🎶 🎸 Developing the Music of GDP: An Interview with TAS & The Semi-Superheroes 🎸 🎶
Feb 05, 2020
🇨🇭🚂 The Last Train to Davos: A Bonus Podcast about the World Economic Forum. 🚂 🇨🇭
Jan 22, 2020
🇨🇺 Classic cars, hand-rolled cigars, thatched-roof bars and...mid-term exams? The Development of Study Abroad Tours in Cuba. 🇨🇺
Jan 13, 2020
The Challenging Racism Project: Exploring the Consequences of Racism in Development.
Jan 11, 2020
🎵Vacation is all I ever wanted.🎵 The Delicate Balance of Tourism and Development.
Jan 10, 2020
A Place without Time: Health, Development, and Climate Change in Kiribati.
Jan 09, 2020
🇨🇺 Havana nights and Moscow Days: The Development of Cuba - Russia Relations. 🇨🇺
Jan 08, 2020
🇨🇺 The Development of Cuba's Emergency Readiness in an era of Climate Change. 🇨🇺
Jan 07, 2020
🇨🇺🏳️‍🌈 The Development of Cuba's Gay Revolution. 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇺
Jan 06, 2020
🇨🇺 Cuba's Healthy Development. 🇨🇺
Jan 05, 2020
Inequity, Injustice, & Indifference. The Heart and Soul of Neoliberal Development.
Jan 04, 2020
What's it like being a front-line Humanitarian Development Worker? Watch M*A*S*H.
Jan 03, 2020
Who Votes for Democracy? The Place of "Democracy Assistance" in International Development.
Jan 02, 2020
It's season two of Rick and Morty! No, wait! It's season two of GDP - The Global Development Primer.
Dec 23, 2019
A Power No Government Can Suppress: Activism as Development.
Nov 19, 2019
School is Out! A Bangladesh University for Women brings about Impressive Development Goals.
Nov 08, 2019
Development is Just so Modern: Modernization theory 101.
Nov 08, 2019
Feminist Foreign International Assistance Policy: Development's new era?
Nov 08, 2019
Disabilities within International Development: Chronicles of Nigeria.
Nov 07, 2019
Colonialism: Global Development's Painful Origins.
Nov 07, 2019
Diamonds and Development Are Forever?
Nov 07, 2019
Get Your Foot in the Door by Getting a Plane? The ethical conundrum of Voluntourism in International Development.
Nov 07, 2019
🎵 No Sugar Tonight in my Coffee 🎵 Any Fairness in Development?
Nov 06, 2019
The "Stateless State" of Development: Chronicles of Myanmar.
Nov 06, 2019
Two Thousand Years Before Development
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