In Conversation: Basma Albanna + Richard Heeks
Development studies often focuses on the negative: constraints, challenges, negative impacts, etc. But what if we could use new digital datasets to identify positive deviants: outlier individuals, hou...
24 Okt 202224min
In Conversation: Stefano Ponte
In this episode, Stefano Ponte talks to Aarti Krishnan about his research into sustainability, the wine and seafood value chains in South Africa and his recent book Business, Power and Sustainability ...
29 Sep 202233min
Shifting South: Horticulture regional value chains and decent work in Africa
In the second of our Shifting South series, Stephanie Barrientos talks to Margareet Visser and Maggie Opondo. They reflect on the project and their research into horticultural value chains. Shifting...
23 Aug 202238min
Shifting South: Regional garment value chains and decent work in Southern Africa
In the first of our Shifting South series, Stephanie Barrientos talks to Khalid Nadvi and Shane Godfrey. They reflect on the project and their research into regional garment value chains, and decent w...
27 Juli 202234min
In Conversation: Stefan Dercon
In the latest episode of the GDI podcast, Professor Stefan Dercon talks to Dr Sophie van Huellen. They discuss Stefan's new book, "Gambling on Development: why some countries win and others lose", h...
17 Juni 202231min
Urban metabolism, water scarcity & seawater desalination in Chile | Maria Christina Fragkou
GDI’s Resources, Environment, and Development research group have recently organised a series of talks on ‘Red Talks: on the Politics of Resources, Environment and Development' The first event welcom...
18 Maj 202242min
Global Covid-19 vaccine inequality | Karrar Karrar, Lara Dovifat & Ken Shadlen
While the Covid-19 pandemic has caused enormous devastation and disruption in health, social and economic terms, the remarkably quick development of Covid-19 vaccines is an enormous achievement. Yet d...
3 Maj 202257min
Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order | Yeling Tan
Yeling Tan discusses her book, Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order. China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 represented an historic opportunity to...
19 Apr 202244min
