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Tech MattersPart 2 - Overcoming the Market (Failure), with Owen Barder of PxD Picking up where we left off with Owen Barder, Jim digs deeper into how tech enters the discussion, in particular what Precision Development has been doing to tackle major sustainable agriculture challenges in developing countries. Key topics: When to do AB testing (à la Facebook) vs. a full-blown Randomized Control Trial (the typical government approach); the fact that data helps flag a problem, but you still need to dig deeper to understand exactly what that problem is; and the fact that farmers today, especially in developing countries, are operating under more uncertainty than they need to. > Transcript on website ...2024-02-0927 min
Tech MattersPart 1 - Overcoming the Market (Failure), with Owen Barder of PxD Throughout Owen's journey, one central question has been: How do you navigate market failure, especially when the stakes are sky-high? The typical choice between government intervention vs. private investment vs. third sector solutions often can't cut it. Owen and innovators like him don't have all the answers, but are able operate at the highest institutional level, crafting and implementing new models that go beyond a single ideology in order to tackle some of the most formidable global economic challenges. With a distinguished career as a civil servant in the UK Treasury, the UK Department of I...2024-01-2634 min
Tech MattersComing Soon: Tech Matters Season 2, on the Power of Data!As we learned from Nithya Ramanathan in Season 1, data = money = power. To understand what this means for our future, and what we can actually do about it, we're coming back strong with a whole new lineup of interviews in Season 2. You'll hear from Jake Porway, co-founder of Datakind, Yvette Alberdingk Thijm of Witness, Owen Barder of Precision Development, and many more about the importance of human-centered design, field-based learning, and the needs, challenges, and power of data for good. Tune into the biweekly Tech Matters podcast by following and subscribing on your favorite platform! 2024-01-2101 min
Lewis & Friends: Curious Conversations with Leaders in Sustainable FashionPxDGuests:Owen Barder, CEO, PxDBeth Jensen, Climate Solutions Portfolio Advisory Council memberPauline Op de Beeck, Environmental Portfolio Lead, Aii2023-11-2844 min
Development DrumsEpisode 48: Stefan Dercon – Gambling on Development
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 elites gamble on a future with economic growth and shared rising living standards. He cites examples such as China, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and China as examples of this, in contrast to other countries in which the elite has not gambled on development. St...2022-06-031h 32
Digital PlanetImproving crop yields with mobile phonesMobile phones are improving lives and yields for millions of farmers around the world. Michael Kremer, a 2019 Economics Nobel Prize winner developed Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) to give farmers in developing countries advice on how to improve their yields. He and Owen Barder, CEO of PAD, tell Digital Planet how it works. To reduce failures on surveillance or delivery missions, drones need to be monitored effectively. Karen Willcox at the Oden Institute of the University of Texas in Austin explains how her team has found a way to send back real time data using sensors that...2019-12-1746 min
DisplacedOwen Barder: we need an alternative to refugee camps"When people look back on our time they will wonder why we tolerated refugee camps for so long.” Owen Barder, Vice President at the Center for Global Development, talks in this episode about why we should abolish refugee camps, and what’s wrong with the humanitarian aid system more broadly. Barder talks about the alternatives to keeping displaced people in camps, and how to make the humanitarian system more simple, more focused, and serve the interests of displaced people receiving aid, rather than those providing it.
Displaced is produced by the Vox Media Podcast Network in partnership with the International Rescu...2018-08-281h 01
Fearonomics: confront and overcome your fears about the global economyThe future of development finance- part 2In the second part of our review of the future of development finance Owen Barder, Vice President at the Center for Global Development, discusses its current goals and challenges with Jonathan Charles. What needs to be done and what can the EBRD and other Multilateral Development Banks do better? Can we deliver the Sustainable Development Goals by their 2030 deadline?2018-04-2517 min
Last WordSean Hughes, Sir Brian Barder, David Marks, Major Khush Ahmad-ul-Mulk, Marge CalhounMatthew Bannister onSean Hughes, the comedian who pioneered stand up with a narrative and was a team captain on "Never Mind the Buzzcocks".Architect David Marks who mortgaged his house as he battled to turn his design for the London Eye into an international landmark.Major Khush Ahmad-ul-Mulk, the last surviving son of the Mehtar of Chitral who ruled the state in the North West of Pakistan for over forty years.Sir Brian Barder who was Britain's ambassador to Ethiopia during the famine of the 1980s. He was involved in...2017-10-2027 min
Tiny SparkThere's More Aid than Ever, So Why are Poorest Nations Getting Less?Foreign aid reached its highest point in 2014 but less has been going to the poorest nations. Development economist Owen Barder gives reasons for this trend and explains why he won’t sit on panels that exclude women.2016-02-1512 min
Terms Of Reference PodcastTOR092: The Center For Global Development with Owen BarderOwen Barder is Vice President, Director for Europe and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development - an organization that conducts research and analysis on a wide range of topics related to how policies and actions of the rich and powerful affect poor people in the developing world.
From 1988 to 2010, Owen was a British civil servant. During that time he worked at No.10 Downing Street, as the Private Secretary of Economic Affairs to the Prime Minister; in the UK Treasury, including as Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer; and in the Department for...2015-10-2939 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 47: Todd Moss – The Truth is Stranger Than FictionBestselling author Todd Moss is a former senior State Department official who led America’s response to coups and crises in West Africa. He is also my colleague at the Center for Global Development, where he is a Senior Fellow and Chief Operating Officer.
Todd’s first two books feature a fictional hero, Judd Ryker, an analyst in State Department. In The Golden Hour, Ryker is called upon to reverse a coup in Mali (the book was published a few weeks before a real coup in Mali). In the latest book, Minute Zero, Ryker has to handle a politic...2015-09-1755 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 46: Morten JervenMorten Jerven explains why we know less than we should about what is happening in African economies, and why this is leading economists to the wrong recommendations. His first book, Poor Numbers: How We are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do About It explained the problems with Africa’s economic data; an his new book, Africa: Why Economists Get it Wrong sets out how this lack of nuanced understanding of the data has led to flawed analysis and recommendations. “The bottom line”, he says, “is that there is no bottom billion”.
Morten Jerven is an Associate P...2015-06-071h 08Development DrumsEpisode 45: Mind, Society and Behaviour (Varun Gauri)Behavioural economics is hot.
In this edition of Development Drums, I talk to Varun Gauri, Senior Economist with the Development Research Group of the World Bank and Co-Director of the World Development Report 2015: Mind, Society, and Behavior.
Varun explains the principles of behavioural economics, and discusses how they apply to development economics. He also discusses how these biases also affect development agencies and their staff, and the implications of behavioural economics for development agencies themselves.
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Spring 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoEngaging Citizens: a game changer for development?Contributor(s): Professor Jon Paul Faguet, Dr Shirin Madon, Dr Duncan Green, Owen Barder, Yesil Deniz, Dr Bjorn-Soren Gigler, Abha Joshi-Ghani, Leni Wild, Vanessa Herringshaw, Fredrik Galtung, Duncan Edwards | Engaging citizens has a vital role to play in the process of development. It helps to improve transparency and accountability of public policies, to build trust with citizens, to forge consensus around important reforms, and to build the political and public support necessary to sustain them. A number of institutions, including the London School of Economics, have demonstrated their commitment to this important agenda by developing a MOOC - a free...2015-03-191h 37Spring 2015 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfEngaging Citizens: a game changer for development?Contributor(s): Professor Jon Paul Faguet, Dr Shirin Madon, Dr Duncan Green, Owen Barder, Yesil Deniz, Dr Bjorn-Soren Gigler, Abha Joshi-Ghani, Leni Wild, Vanessa Herringshaw, Fredrik Galtung, Duncan Edwards | Engaging citizens has a vital role to play in the process of development. It helps to improve transparency and accountability of public policies, to build trust with citizens, to forge consensus around important reforms, and to build the political and public support necessary to sustain them. A number of institutions, including the London School of Economics, have demonstrated their commitment to this important agenda by developing a MOOC - a free...2015-03-191h 37Development DrumsEpisode 44: The Data RevolutionEveryone seems to be talking about the data revolution these days.
In this episode of Development Drums, I speak with two people who have thought more about what it is, how to make it happen, and what it means for development than just about anyone else.
Claire Melamed is the Director of the Growth, Poverty and Inequality Programme at ODI. She was previously the Head of Policy at ActionAid UK. Her work focuses on measurement of poverty and inequality and on how to use the insights from measurement to improve policy and outcomes. She heads...2014-09-1545 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 43: ComplexityIn this episode of Development Drums, I speak with Ben Ramalingam and Stefan Dercon about whether complexity and systems thinking offers actionable insights for better development interventions.
Ben Ramalingam is an independent researcher who has worked with development and humanitarian organisations including UN bodies, NGOs, the Red Cross movement, and government agencies. He is affiliated with the London School of Economics and the Overseas Development Institute, amongst other institutions and is the author of Aid on the Edge of Chaos: Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World. Stefan Dercon is a Professor of Development Economics at the Univ...2014-07-241h 15Development DrumsEpisode 42: The Idealist (Nina Munk on Jeff Sachs)Nina Munk’s latest book, The Idealist, is about Jeffrey Sachs and the Millennium Villages Project. It is also a book about the efforts that people in industrialised countries make to help poor people. It is a book about vision, passion and hubris.
In this episode of Development Drums, Nina Munk tells the story of how she came to write the book, and what she learned about Jeff Sachs, and about development aid, as she did so.
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2014-03-1057 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 41: The Great Escape (Angus Deaton)Angus Deaton, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University, talks about his book, The Great Escape, which brings together his research into health, well-being, and economic development.
In his book, Professor Deaton talks about the great progress that is being made in health and well-being, but also the problem of inequality within and between nations. The book finishes with a robust critique of the aid business, leading Professor Deaton to recommend that industrialised countries should spend money for, b...2013-12-211h 11Development DrumsEpisode 40: Why Nations FailDaron Acemoğlu and James Robinson talk about their best-selling book, Why Nations Fail.
In Why Nations Fail, Acemoğlu & Robinson argue that institutions matter for development and prosperity. Economic institutions can be broadly inclusive, leading to sustained economic prosperity, or extractive, enriching elites but doing little for the majority of the population. So far, that is not very new or exciting. A lot of development thinking has focused on institutions for at least 20 years, following the disappointing results of the Washington Consensus. In this book Acemoğlu & Robinson make the key point that these institu...2013-05-041h 10Development DrumsEpisode 39: Bob Geldof (full version)This is the unabridged version of an interview with Bob Geldof; the shorter edited version is available separately as Development Drums number 38.
Bob Geldof is a singer, songwriter, author, actor and part-time political activist. As lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, Geldof had chart success with Rat Trap and I Don’t Like Mondays. In 1984, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure brought together a group of musicians under the name Band Aid to record a single they wrote together, Do They Know Its Christmas?, which became one of the best-selling singles of all time. They went on to orga...2013-03-231h 12Development DrumsEpisode 38: Bob Geldof (edited)This podcast presents the edited version (about half an hour) of a longer interview with Bob Geldof; if you prefer you can listen to the full interview (1 hr 15 minutes) in episode 39 of Development Drums instead.
Bob Geldof is a singer, songwriter, author, actor and part-time political activist. As lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, Geldof had chart success with Rat Trap and I Don’t Like Mondays. In 1984, Bob Geldof and Midge Ure brought together a group of musicians under the name Band Aid to record a single they wrote together, Do They Know Its Christmas...2013-03-2336 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 37: From Poverty to PowerDuncan Green, Senior Strategic Adviser at Oxfam, talks about his book From Poverty to Power.
From Poverty to Power argues that it requires a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets to break the cycle of poverty and inequality and to give poor people power over their own destinies. According to Duncan Green, the forces driving this transformation are active citizens and effective states. Active citizens are important because people living in poverty must have a voice in deciding their own destiny, fighting for rights and justice in their own society, and holding st...2013-03-011h 06Development DrumsEpisode 36: Accountability and OpennessIn this episode, Rakesh Rajani and Martin Tisné discuss accountability and openness.
Rakesh Rajani is a Tanzanian civil society leader who currently leads Twaweza (meaning ‘we can make it happen’ in Swahili), a 10-year initiative to enhance access to information, citizen agency, and public accountability in East Africa. Until the end of 2007 he served as the founding Executive Director of HakiElimu, an independent organization that promotes citizen engagement in education in Tanzania. He advises/serves on several boards, including Revenue Watch International, Aidspan (a watchdog of the Global Fund), the International Budget Partnership (IBP), ONE, the Found...2013-02-241h 13Development DrumsEpisode 35: Migration and DevelopmentIn this episode, Owen talks to fellow CGD Senior Fellow Michael Clemens about the relationship between migration and development.
In the first section Michael talks about the impact of migration on migrants themselves, and how micro-data has been used to expose a significant inequality of opportunity based on location, explaining more about a person’s income than everything else put together. Michael discusses the role of movement of people in within the development process, highlighting the limitations of using place as the main indicator of poverty reduction, given the wider global system and international labour market in w...2012-12-011h 14Development DrumsEpisode 34: The Economics Of EnoughIn this episode, Owen talks with author and economist Diane Coyle about her latest book ‘The Economics Of Enough, How To Run The Economy As If The Future Matters’.
In the first section, Diane shares her thoughts on economic growth as a satisfactory goal for economic and social policy, and discusses the measure of Gross Domestic Product in relation to indicators of happiness and welfare.
In addressing the challenges of economic growth, Diane highlights the need for a measure of wealth that transcends money and natural infrastructure to factor in human capital, environmental capit...2012-10-101h 07Development DrumsEpisode 33: Complexity and Development
This is a special edition of Development Drums. Instead of interviewing a guest, as normal, we bring you a presentation on Complexity and Development by Owen Barder.
This is the audio-only version of an online presentation with slides, which is available from the Center for Global Development.
You can also download the slides and full transcript.
In this presentation, adapted from his Kapuściński Lecture of May 2012, Owen Barder explores the implications of complexity theory for development policy. He explains how traditional economic models have tried and failed to understand why...2012-08-2047 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 32: Gender and DevelopmentGender permeates all development issues, and there is growing debate surrounding how best to implement and promote gender balance and equality throughout the development agenda.
This episode broadly focuses on two different views of why we might be interested in women in development: the first based on instrumental reasons (what can women and girls do for development) and the second on more structural and contextual reasons (what development can do for women and girls).
Our guests are Andrea Cornwall of the Institute of Development Studies and Prue Clarke of New Narratives.
Andrea Cornwall talks of ’empow...2012-08-101h 01Development DrumsEpisode 31: David Roodman on MicrofinanceCenter for Global Development Senior Fellow David Roodman talks about his latest book ‘Due Diligence, An Impertinent Inquiry into Microfinance’.
David discusses the evidence surrounding the effects of microfinance on the lives of the world’s poor and its implications on aid donors, within the context of his book’s key findings. David then goes on to speak about what he himself has learned about the roles of different kinds of evidence, along with the unusual way in which he used open blogs to guide and inform the writing of his book.
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D...2012-05-2844 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 30: Interviews with EBRD Candidates
On Friday the Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will decide who will be the Bank’s next President.
Today we are publishing interviews with four of the candidates. In September 2009, the leaders of the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh called for the “the heads and senior leadership of all international institutions [to] be appointed through an open, transparent and merit-based process.” Despite this commitment, over last few months European Ministers have been horse-trading behind closed doors to try to get one of their nationals into a number of jobs which are up for gr...2012-05-1458 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 29: Toby Ord on Giving What We CanToby Ord is a moral philosopher at Balliol College, Oxford and the president of Giving What We Can, an international society dedicated to eliminating poverty in the developing world.
In this interview, Toby firstly talks about consequentialism and the implications for development, with particular focus on cost-effectiveness. Secondly, Toby explains his personal decision to donate a substantial proportion of his income to the developing world, and shares with us the factors that guide his choice of recipients.
Development Drums is hosted by Owen Barder and produced by Anna Scott at the Center for Global Development.
Running...2012-04-191h 07Development DrumsEpisode 28: Tim Harford on Adapt (why success always begins with failure)Tim Harford is a journalist at the Financial Times and the author of The Undercover Economist and, most recently, of Adapt: Why Success Always Begins with Failure.
In this interview, Tim talks about the implications for development of his idea that successful complex systems emerge from a process of trial and error.
Development Drums is hosted by Owen Barder and produced by Anna Scott at the Center for Global Development.
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2012-02-2358 min
AnalysisAid or Immigration?Despite a general policy of austerity and cut backs, the budget for development aid has been ring fenced by the coalition government. Frances Cairncross asks whether a more relaxed immigration policy might be a better way for the UK to help the developing world. The official aid budget is dwarfed by a private form of help for the developing world: remittances sent home by immigrants working in richer countries. So should governments keen to help the developing world encourage migration and remittances as a replacement for state-funded aid? "They have the key advantage that the...2011-10-0327 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 27: Tony BlairTony Blair at the Center for Global Development
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair talks about his Africa Governance Initiative which aims to improve governance in Africa. He talks about his views on leadership and governance in Africa, and more broadly about UK attitudes to development, the role of the UK Department for International Development, liberal interventionism, and his own future.
If you are interested in international development, you may also like these other podcasts:
Global Prosperity Wonkcast from the Center for Global Development
The Guardian Focus Podcast
Running time 33 minutes; si...2011-06-1733 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 26: China in AfricaProfessor Deborah Bräutigam discusses her book, The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa about China Africa relations. Professor Bräutigam blogs at chinaafricarealstory.com.
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2011-05-0459 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 25: Global development challengesThe twenty-fifth edition of Development Drums discusses the big challenges of development in the 21st century.
My guests are Malini Mehra from the Center for Social Markets and Alex Evans from the Center on International Cooperation at NYU.
Malini Mehra and Alex Evans discuss the big development challenges of the 21st Century in Development Drums 25
The agenda for the discussion was a presentation given by Alex Evans to Members of Parliament in the British House of Commons. In his presentation, Alex identified ten key issues for discussion: the changing distribution of pov...2011-02-1000 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 24: The New Bottom BillionAndy Sumner (Institute for Development Studies) has published a new paper which argues that the global poverty problem has changed because most of the world’s poor no longer live in low-income countries (LICs). In 1990, about 93 per cent of the world’s poor people lived in LICs. Andy’s paper shows that in 2007-8, three-quarters of the world’s approximately 1.3bn poor people lived in middle-income countries (MICs) and only about a quarter of the world’s poor – about 370mn people – live in the remaining 39 low-income countries, which are largely in sub-Saharan Africa.
Andy Sumner and Claire Melamed2010-12-0400 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 23: Famine and ForeignersPeter Gill talks on Development Drums about his new book, Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid.
The Ethiopian famine of 25 years ago was the greatest humanitarian disaster of the second half of the 20th century, killing more than 600,000 people before the world took notice. Peter Gill was the first journalist to reach the epicenter of the famine in 1984 and he returned at the time of Live Aid to research the definitive account of the disaster, A Year in the Death of Africa .
Peter Gill has returned to Ethiopia to tell the story of the...2010-10-1800 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 22: Enough – Hunger in an Age of PlentyRoger Thurow and Scott Kilman talk about their book Enough: Why The World’s Poorest Starve In An Age of Plenty.
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2010-05-0300 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 21: Randomized EvaluationIn this edition of Development drums, Owen talks to Rachel Glennerster, Director of the Poverty Action Lab, about rigorous evaluation of development programmes.
Rachel explains how rigorous evaluation techniques can give important insights into the effectiveness of development programmes. She explains the role (and limitations) of randomised controlled trials, and she addresses some of the criticisms of this kind of evaluation.
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2010-04-2000 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 20: CorruptionDaniel Kaufmann and Mushtaq Khan debate the role and importance of tackling corruption as part of a development strategy.
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2009-11-0400 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 19: Beyond PlanningGuest presenter Alison Evans, Director of ODI, interviews Owen Barder about his new paper, Beyond Planning: Markets and Networks for Better Aid, and Roger Riddell, author of two key books on aid and a non-executive director of Oxford Policy Management.
This podcast is in collaboration with the Overseas Development Institute.
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2009-10-2600 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 18: Portfolios of the PoorDaryl Colliins and Jonathan Morduch discuss their book, co-authored with Stuart Rutherford and Orland Ruthven, Portfolios of the Poor.
Forty percent of the world’s population lives on less than $2 a day. You may be surprised by the extent to which they use financial services. Daryl and Jonathan describe their work and their findings.
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2009-08-2900 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 17: Obama in Ghana
President Obama spoke in Ghana on July 11, 2009 about US policy towards Africa.
In this episode of Development Drums, Todd Moss and Chris Blattman join me to talk about the speech, and what it means for the US and Africa.
President Obama’s speech
Chris Blattman’s blog
Comments on the speech from Bill Easterly
Comments on the speech from Mark Goldberg
Comments on the speech from Foreign Policy
Comments on the speech from Michael Kevane
Comments on the speech from Leonard Wantchekon
(Am I missing some? Post them in the comments please.)
2009-07-1900 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 16: False Economy
Alan Beattie, World Trade Editor of the Financial Times, talks about his new book, False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World, with Professor Robert Wade of the London School of Economics.
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2009-07-1800 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 15: Peter Singer
Professor Peter Singer talks on Development Drums about his new book, The Life You Can Save. This book sets out an ethical case for why people should give more money to people in developing countries.
Here are the links mentioned in the podcast.
The Life You Can Save website
Buy The Life You Can Save from Amazon
Give Well (the charity Peter Singer recommends in the podcast)
Famine, Affluence, and Morality
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2009-06-1500 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 14: Philanthrocapitalism
Matthew Bishop and Mike Green talk about their book, Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World and Why We Should Let Them
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2009-05-2400 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 13: ButijiraAndrew Mitchell MP, the shadow Secretary of State for International Development in the British Conservative party, talks about whether and how UK policy on development would change if the Conservatives win the next General Election.
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2009-05-1300 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 12: The HagueThe authors of the WrongingRights blog, Kate Cronin-Furman and Amanda Taub, help to clear up the mysteries of international criminal law.
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In this episode of Development Drums we talk about the International Criminal Court and the arrest warrant that has been issued for the President of Sudan. Some links:
Amanda’s blog post on Bashir
Nicholas Kristof (New York Times)
Alex de Waal and Julie Flint
Human Rights Watch
Also – Facebook Group for Development Drums
2009-03-2500 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 11: Moorgate
Nancy Birdsall (CGD) and Simon Maxwell (ODI) reflect on the London Poverty Summit on 9th and 10th March; and Minouche Shafik (DFID) talks about the forthcoming DFID White Paper.
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The British Government held a 2 day conference on 9th and 10th March, bringing together some of the leading thinkers and practitioners on international development.
Speech by Gordon Brown
Speech by Douglas Alexander
Eliminating world poverty: Building our common future (5mb) – Background paper to conference by ODI...2009-03-1400 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 10: OxfordPaul Collier is Professor of Economics at Oxford University and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies.
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In The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier points out that poverty is falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. He argues that the real crisis lies in a group of 58 failing states, home to the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. He argues that these countries are the scene of a struggle between reformers and corrupt leaders. Collier analyzes the causes of failure, pointing to a...2009-03-0600 minDevelopment DrumsEpisode 9: Rome
Are donors living up to their promises? Eckhard Deutscher (Chair of the Development Assistance Committee) and Richard Carey (Director of the Development Cooperation Directorate of the OECD) talk about the 2009 Development Cooperation Report, progress towards increasing aid and the way it is delivered, and the work of the DAC.
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