In Pursuit of Development
By Dan Banik
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Unlock a World of Insight: Your Passport to Global Development!
Embark on a journey that transcends borders and transcends boundaries. Our podcast is your gateway to a deeper understanding of democracy, poverty eradication, and the urgent battle against climate change. In each episode, we transport you to the heart of developing and "emerging economies" in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. As we tackle the world's most pressing issues, we don't just dwell on problems; we spotlight innovative solutions and success stories that are making a difference on the ground.
Your host, Professor Dan Banik, leads the way from the University of Oslo. Tune in to this intellectual adventure and become part of the change! 🌎🎧 @danbanik @GlobalDevPod
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Administrative Capacity and Its Impact on Development in Pakistan — Sameen A. Mohsin Ali
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Infrastructure, Governance, and Society in Modern Africa — Karuti Kanyinga
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Politics of the Planet — Lan Marie Nguyen Berg
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Tackling the Energy Access and Development Challenge — Jörg Ankel-Peters
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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The US-China Partnership That Transformed International Trade — Elizabeth Ingleson
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Empowering Change: Leadership's Role in Global Development — Willem Fourie
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Cityscapes and Sanctuaries: Exploring the Socio-Spatial and Religious Dynamics of Johannesburg and Lagos — Obvious Katsaura
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Voices and Votes: Shaping the Democratic Landscape in Africa — Boniface Dulani
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Democracy in the Balance: Navigating Latin America's Political Landscape — Gerardo Munck
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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The Globalization of Finance and Its Impact on State Building — Didac Queralt
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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The Genesis of the Human Development Report and Index — Meghnad Desai
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Global Structural Reform: Poverty, Freedom, Justice, and Innovation — Thomas Pogge
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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The Future of Industrialization – Jostein Hauge
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Development as a Right: Unpacking Principles and Practices — Surya Deva
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Shifting Paradigms: The Global South and Feminist Political Economy Unveiled — Sara Stevano
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Beyond Trade: China's Cultural and Political Relations in Africa – Joshua Eisenman
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Accountability in Action: The World Bank's Inspection Panel on the Frontlines – Ramanie Kunanayagam
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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From Miracle to Menace: The Fight Against Plastic Pollution — Gloria Majiga
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Decoding Development: The Crucial Role of Institutions – Shiping Tang
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Making Sense of Cancer: Why Better Therapy Leads to More Disease – Jarle Breivik
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Beyond Red Tape: Unraveling Bureaucratic Paradoxes in Public Service Delivery – Akshay Mangla
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Unpacking the Backlash Against Globalization and its Impact on Inequality – Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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A New Horizon: Advancing Public Sector Reform in Africa – Happy Kayuni
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Political Constraints in Growth and Development: Moving beyond talking about them to actually tackling them – Peter Evans
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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India's Aspirations on the Global Stage — Suhasini Haidar
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Humanity's Enduring Quest for Power and Prosperity – Daron Acemoglu
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Unveiling the Global Tapestry: Liberalism, Democracy, and the Path to Development – Francis Fukuyama
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Unraveling Brazil's political and legal landscape – Conrado Hübner Mendes
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Planet & Progress: Navigating Climate, Poverty, and Aid — Anne Beathe Tvinnereim
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Forging New Paths in Challenging Geopolitical Landscapes — Stephen D. Krasner
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Unleashing the Power of Business to Change the World — Raj Kumar
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May 31, 2023 |
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Using Evidence to Drive Policy and Achieve Lasting Development Impact — Rachel Glennerster
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May 24, 2023 |
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Unpacking the complexities of corruption — Daniel Agbiboa
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May 17, 2023 |
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How industrialization reshapes modern ethnic identities — Elliott Green
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May 10, 2023 |
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How China's digital entrepreneurs are redefining innovation and reshaping the global economy — Lin Zhang
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May 03, 2023 |
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Making every dollar count — Ryan Briggs
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Patching development – Rajesh Veeraraghavan
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Is economic growth the magic wand for ending poverty? — Charles Kenny
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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A more fragmented world — Helen Clark
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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The European Union and global development — Johanne Døhlie Saltnes
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Banking on Beijing — Axel Dreher
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Africa’s youth in the race for climate action — Hilda Flavia Nakabuye
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Poverty and the new threat to prosperity — Indermit Gill
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Rethinking "evidence" — Eivind Engebretsen and Mona Baker
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Locally led development and the future of aid — Håvard Mokleiv Nygård
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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The Wild World of WhatsApp — Jamie Hitchen
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Christmas special – The acronisation game
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Just copy us! Why can’t the rest of the world be more like Scandinavia? — Harald Eia
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Contemporary state building and elite taxation in Latin America — Gustavo Flores-Macías
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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The power of the Chinese state: Examination, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology — Yasheng Huang
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Show me the money: Why cash transfers matter for development — Ugo Gentilini
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Crises of democracy — Adam Przeworski
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Silenced voices in global health — Address Malata
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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The development bargain — Stefan Dercon
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Transforming our global food system — Gunhild Stordalen
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Why we fight — Chris Blattman
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Africa's right to development — Mo Ibrahim
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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The pursuit of liberty and prosperity along a narrow corridor — Daron Acemoglu
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Can fixing dinner fix the planet? — Jessica Fanzo
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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The Life You Can Save — Peter Singer
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Roadblock Politics — Peer Schouten
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Russia Resurrected: Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order — Kathryn Stoner
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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The power of ideas and metaphors in international development policy – Desmond McNeill
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Breaking Bad: Understanding Backlash Against Democracy in Africa — Lise Rakner
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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A world of insecurity — Pranab Bardhan
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Do morals matter? — Joseph S. Nye
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Globalization and Asian Geopolitics — Shivshankar Menon
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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The power of small states — Ine Eriksen Søreide
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Why we need a different system of global development — Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Rich countries’ climate policies are colonialism in green — Vijaya Ramachandran
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Is it the end of democracy in Africa? — Nic Cheeseman
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Does the Nobel Peace Prize Promote Peace? — Henrik Urdal
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Travelling While Black — Nanjala Nyabola
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Beating the Odds: Jump-Starting Developing Countries — Justin Yifu Lin
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Bangladesh's development journey — Imran Matin
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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States, markets and foreign aid — Simone Dietrich
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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The UN in a post-pandemic world — Achim Steiner
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Local resistance against coal in Lamu, Kenya — Raya Ahmed, Omar Elmawi, Gino Cocchiaro
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Living in a Materials World: Extractives on the road to Net Zero — Tony Addison
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Electrifying India — Elizabeth Chatterjee
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Why is the West obsessed with changing China? — Xu Qinduo
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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What went wrong with COVAX, the vast global vaccine program? — Katerini Storeng
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Beyond the Bottom Billion — Paul Collier
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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The remarkable expansion of South–South Cooperation — Emma Mawdsley
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Popular mobilization against dams in Myanmar — Kyungmee Kim
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Politics of the poor — Indrajit Roy
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Religion and democratic mobilization in Brazil – Amy Erica Smith
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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"Global Britain": Inspired vision or wishful thinking? — Mark Miller
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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How does digital technology affect healthcare? — Vincent Duclos
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May 26, 2021 |
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Reimagining development — Hannah Ryder
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May 19, 2021 |
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Navigating by judgment to achieve development impact — Dan Honig
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May 12, 2021 |
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Democracy and crisis response in India — Patralekha Chatterjee
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May 05, 2021 |
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The globalization of foreign aid — Liam Swiss
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Nigeria and the inadequacies of the resource curse thesis – Zainab Usman
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Can we domesticate the state or will it domesticate us? — James C. Scott
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Population and development: Risks and opportunities — Lauren Johnston
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Imperialism and the developing world — Atul Kohli
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Summit diplomacy and African agency — Folashadé Soulé
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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India-Africa relations — Renu Modi
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Corruption and political settlements — Mushtaq Khan
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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The impact of the sustainable development concept — Frank Biermann
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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The future of aid — Jonathan Glennie
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Vaccine nationalism and vaccine equity — Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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Knowledge production and network-building in China’s foreign relations — Lina Benabdallah
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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How to distribute a Covid-19 vaccine ethically — Aksel Braanen Sterri
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Feb 13, 2021 |
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How India became the "pharmacy of the world" — Rory Horner
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Political violence and development — Patricia Justino
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Gro Harlem Brundtland on sustainable development, global responses to COVID-19 and the role of the WHO
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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Political development and political decay — Francis Fukuyama
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Simmering political tensions and civil war in Ethiopia — Kjetil Tronvoll
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Economic boom, poverty reduction and corruption in China — Yuen Yuen Ang
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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The impact of democracy on economic growth — Carl Henrik Knutsen
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Global inequality and the future of capitalism — Branko Milanovic
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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China-Africa relations — Eric Olander
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Food insecurity and the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 — Ida Rudolfsen
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Oct 17, 2020 |
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Why democracy will prevail in the contest against authoritarian alternatives — Larry Diamond
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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What the West does not understand about China — Liu Baocheng
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative and infrastructure development in Africa — Gyude Moore
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Dam diplomacy and water sharing agreements in the Nile basin — Ashok Swain
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Legislative development in Africa — Ken Ochieng' Opalo
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Why AIDS interventions in Africa often fail — Kim Yi Dionne
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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India’s development and the political economy of growth — Kunal Sen
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Globalization, the Nordic model and the economics of belonging — Martin Sandbu
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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The historic court ruling in Malawi annulling the 2019 presidential elections — Edge Kanyongolo
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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The need to politicize development economics — Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Pakistan's healthcare system and its recent success in fighting Covid — Usman Mushtaq
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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How Black Lives Matter is also a reckoning for foreign aid and international NGOs — Degan Ali
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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How is India handling the pandemic? A conversation with Tathagata Satpathy
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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The relevance of foreign aid — Bård Vegar Solhjell
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Chinese aid and South-South Cooperation — Marina Rudyak
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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State capacity in Latin America — Benedicte Bull
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Erik Solheim on sustainable development
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Democracy, development and Covid response in Africa — Boniface Dulani
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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The population question
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Dreaming of electricity
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Crises and leadership
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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China in a post-Covid world
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Introducing: In Pursuit of Development
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Jun 08, 2020 |