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Development Drums

Development Drums

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Development Drums takes an in depth look at key issues in international development and global poverty. Stefan Dercon is Professor of Economic Policy and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford. He is a former DFID chief economist and a policy advisor to the UK foreign secretary. Stefan Dercon argues that countries develop if they achieve an elite bargain, in which the country’s […]

Recent Episodes

  • Episode 48: Stefan Dercon – Gambling on Development

    2 years ago

  • Episode 47: Todd Moss – The Truth is Stranger Than Fiction

    9 years ago

  • Episode 46: Morten Jerven

    9 years ago

  • Episode 45: Mind, Society and Behaviour (Varun Gauri)

    10 years ago

  • Episode 44: The Data Revolution

    10 years ago

  • Episode 43: Complexity

    10 years ago

  • Episode 42: The Idealist (Nina Munk on Jeff Sachs)

    11 years ago

  • Episode 41: The Great Escape (Angus Deaton)

    11 years ago

  • Episode 40: Why Nations Fail

    12 years ago

  • Episode 39: Bob Geldof (full version)

    12 years ago