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S2 Ep38: The challenges of improving public sector...

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/10/12

Imagine an intervention that combined funding, best practice delivered at scale, and near-universal compliance. Should this guarantee it will succeed? Not necessarily, according to a study of a program to improve quality in Indian schools. Abhijeet Singh talks to Tim Phillips.

14:20

S2 Ep37: Better bureaucrats in a crisis

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/10/05

What role do bureaucrats play in a crisis? We might think that the best bureaucracy would be made up of people who are very good at doing exactly what they are told. But research into the impact of the 1918 flu pandemic in India suggests that other factors may be important too. Guo Xu talks to Tim Phillips.

13:42

S2 Ep36: How corporate debarment affects workers in...

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/09/28

What are the consequences for workers if they are employed by a firm that is sanctioned for corruption? We’re back in Brazil: Christiane Szerman tells Tim Phillips that the quest to do the right thing is catching guilty companies – but with devastating consequences for thousands of employees.

12:44

S2 Ep35: The unequal effects of pollution

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/09/21

Every year, ambient air pollution kills 3 million people, and causes respiratory problems for hundreds of millions more. Can low-paid workers avoid the harmful effects of air pollution without losing income? Bridget Hoffmann and Juan Pablo Rud talk to Tim Phillips about what data from Mexico City reveals.

16:10

S2 Ep34: Job loss and crime in Brazil

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/09/15

When workers become unemployed, do some turn to crime instead – and does unemployment insurance make a difference? Diogo Britto and Paolo Pinotti tell Tim Phillips about how disaggregated data gives a powerful new insight on the relationship between job loss and crime.

14:53

S2 Ep33: Politics at work

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/09/07

Does who you vote for influence the chances that you are hired, fired, and promoted? Edoardo Teso tells Tim Phillips about Brazil’s politically polarised labour market.

15:56

S2 Ep32: Expanding access to clean water

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/08/10

Almost 2 billion people don’t have access to clean water, which means increased risk of disease, especially for young children. Pascaline Dupas tells Tim Phillips how an experiment in Malawi that provided access to the chemicals to treat dirty water may save lives in many other countries too.

12:57

S2 Ep31: Enhancing women’s economic empowerment

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/08/03

Do policies to provide women with financial resources or financial services give them more economic independence? Less often than we would like, Mikaela Rabb tells Tim Phillips.

22:55

S2 Ep30: Criminal governance in Colombia

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/07/27

If weak states fail to provide order and security, sometimes criminal gangs step in. Can this problem be fixed by targeting resources to the places most in need of help, and what happens when we do? Ben Lessing tells Tim Phillips about a project to do this in Colombia’s second largest city.

25:44

S2 Ep29: How workfare cut conflict

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/07/20

By 2030, half the world’s poor will be living in conflict-affected areas. Could some of the resources dedicated to helping them be spent to prevent those conflicts? Thiemo Fetzer of the University of Warwick tells Tim Phillips how providing workfare in India reduced community violence.

18:24

S2 Ep28: Surviving the hungry season

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/07/13

For small farmers the most difficult months of the years are the “hungry season” before the harvest. What would be the effect of a small loan at this time? A program in Zambia tweaked the rules of microfinance. Günther Fink and Kelsey Jack tell Tim Phillips about what happened.

15:51

S2 Ep27: Respond or anticipate?

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/07/06

In the monsoon season of 2020, 5.5 million people in Bangladesh were affected by severe floods. But the UN was able to help thousands of households by sending them cash before the floods hit. Ashley Pople and Ruth Hill tell Tim Phillips about the situations in which anticipatory transfers might work better than conventional disaster response.

25:37

S2 Ep26: Poverty and resilience

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/06/29

When households escape poverty, how likely is it they will fall back in the future? Loki Phadera of the World Bank and Hope Michelson of the University of Illinois explain to Tim Phillips why measuring resilience can give us a new perspective on how well anti-poverty programs are working – if only we can agree how to do it.

12:45

S2 Ep25: Cash transfers and child health

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/06/22

Children in low-income countries are 12 times more likely to die before their fifth birthday than those in high-income countries. Cash transfers to households may increase money spent on the health of children – but how large are the outcomes, and should the transfers specifically target child health? Anupama Dathan talks to Tim Phillips.

30:06

S2 Ep24: How Airbel Lab creates cost-effective impact

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/06/15

Which interventions work best, and how can we tweak them to work better? How well could they work in other places, and what changes should we make? Airbel Impact Lab, part of the International Rescue Committee, designs, tests, and scales life-changing solutions for people affected by conflict and disaster. Tim Phillips talks to Jeannie Annan and Caitlin Tulloch about their work.

17:15

S2 Ep23: Resolving disputes in Liberia

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/06/08

When there is conflict, can outsiders help by creating informal ways for communities to resolve their disputes? Chris Blattman tells Tim Phillips about the long-term impact of a project to do exactly this in Liberia.

15:40

S2 Ep22: Seed dealers can be change agents

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/06/01

How do we encourage small farmers to adopt new types of seeds in LICs? Government agents can help spread the word – but Kyle Emerick of Tufts University tells Tim Phillips that the dealers who sell the seeds might be an under-used resource.

25:39

S2 Ep21: Targeting the ultra-poor in Afghanistan

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/05/25

People who live in extreme poverty are increasingly concentrated in fragile and conflict-affected areas. Can a "big push" from the Targeting the Ultra Poor program help? Guadalupe Bedoya and Aidan Coville of the World Bank, and Mohammad Isaqzadeh of Princeton, are part of a team that evaluated the results of an attempt to lift 1,200 households out of poverty in Afghanistan.

13:15

S2 Ep20: Targeting the ultra-poor

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/05/18

If poor people are caught in a poverty trap, a large one-time grant might be life changing. That's the thinking behind programs to target the ultra-poor. But is the impact of this "big push" genuinely permanent? Garima Sharma tells Tim Phillips about the impact of a program in India, 10 years on.

17:45

S2 Ep19: Better seeds or better insurance?

VoxDev Development Economics ·

2022/05/11

Extreme weather doesn't just ruin one crop: it means that the following year small farmers won't have income to invest. Better seeds and insurance against this sort of bad luck are partial solutions, but what if we combine them in one package? Paswel Marenya tells Tim Phillips about a successful multi-year trial in Tanzania and Mozambique.

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