A New New International Economic Order (NNIEO) for a New Global Economy Speaker: Ha-Joon Chang, is an economist, author and lecturer on institutional economics and development, SOAS Discussant: Richard Kozul-Wright, is a development economist, SOAS Chair: James Putzel, LSE ID This event is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice guest lecture series hosted by the International Development Department at LSE.
Oct 06, 2025•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 54
Authoritarian Sanctuaries: Refugee Politics in East Africa Speaker: Alexander Betts is Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, and Senior Fellow in Politics at Brasenose College, at the University of Oxford. Discussant: Arbie Baguios, LSE ID Chair: Laura Mann, LSE ID This event is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice guest lecture series hosted by the International Development Department at LSE.
Dec 16, 2024•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 53
Competition, trade, and sustainability in agri-food markets in East & Southern Africa: a comparison of citrus and soy Speaker: Simon Roberts is Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Johannesburg and Director of the Centre for Competition Economics, as well as Visiting Associate Professor at Wits University Discussant: David Luke, LSE ID Chair: Laura Mann, LSE ID This event is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice guest lecture series hosted by ...
Dec 02, 2024•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 52
A very light shade of green? Is the green transition perpetuating inequality? Speaker: Annalisa Prizzon is a Principal Research Fellow at ODI. Her research interests are primarily focused on the reform of the architecture of development cooperation, as well as the policies and strategies of multilateral development banks Amir Lebdioui is an Associate Professor of the Political Economy of Development at the University of Oxford. His research has focused on industrial policy, export diversificatio...
Nov 27, 2024•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 51
The Sahelian Question: The ultra-periphery in a changing world Speaker: Rahmane Idrissa teaches international cooperation at the University of Niamey. His research focuses on the political economy of democratization, political Islam and the problems of the integration processes in the West African region. Discussant: Aoife McCullough, LSE ID Chair: Laura Mann, LSE ID This event is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice guest lecture series hosted by the Internatio...
Nov 06, 2024•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 50
What's at stake in the US-China Trade War? Speakers: Elizabeth Ingleson: is Assistant Professor Department of International History and is the author of Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade Yeling Tan: is Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Discussant: Robert Wade, LSE ID Chair: Laura Mann, LSE ID This event is part of the Cutting Edg...
Oct 30, 2024•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 49
Re-examining the History of the Industrial Revolution Speaker: Michael Mann is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, UCLA and the author of The Sources of Social Power which covers the history of power in human societies from prehistory to the present. Discussant: James Putzel, LSE ID Chair: Laura Mann, LSE ID This event is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice guest lecture series hosted by the International Development Department at LSE....
Oct 21, 2024•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 48
The crisis of peace-keeping Speaker: Marsha Henry is the Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women, Peace, Security and Justice at the Mitchell Institute Discussant: Myfanwy James, LSE ID Chair: Laura Mann, LSE ID This event is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice guest lecture series hosted by the International Development Department at LSE.
Oct 14, 2024•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 47
British Aid in a Changing World Speakers: Clare Short is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to 2003 Kevin Watkins is a former CEO of Save the Children UK and is a visiting professor at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa Chair: Laura Mann, LSE This event recording is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice guest lecture series hosted by the International Development Department at LSE....
Oct 07, 2024•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 46
What the Gene-Editing Revolution Means For Rural Welfare, Global Futures and Social Justice Speaker: Ronald Herring, Cornell University Discussant: Aniket Aga, SUNY Buffalo Chair: James Putzel, LSE
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 45
'Industrial Policy Challenges in the Developing World' Speakers: Arkebe Oquaby , Gov of Ethiopia Richard Kozul-Wright , UNCTAD Chair: Laura Mann, LSE
Feb 12, 2024•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 44
'The debt and climate change precipice: How can the global majority cope?' Speakers: Jayati Ghosh , Amherst Ndongo Samba Sylla , International Development Economics Associates Kevin Watkins , LSE Chair: James Putzel, LSE
Feb 05, 2024•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 43
'Bringing Cyberspace Down to Earth in China: From smart-cities to village digital projects' Speaker: Hong Yu , Mayling Birney Scholar from Zhejiang University Discussant: David Soskice , LSE Chair: Laura Mann, LSE
Jan 29, 2024•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 42
'Slavery and British Development'. Speakers: Bronwen Everill , Cambridge University Jennifer Adam, Bank of England. Chair: Laura Mann, LSE
Jan 23, 2024•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 41
'Guest lecture on Palestine'. Speaker: Rafeef Ziadah, King's College London Discussant: Mai Taha , LSE Chair: James Putzel, LSE
Dec 11, 2023•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 40
'Development or Dependence?: China's Investment and development finance in Africa'. Speakers: Keyu Jin , LSE Yunnan Chen , Overseas Development Institute Weiwei Chen , Open University Chair: Tin Hinane El Kadi , LSE...
Dec 04, 2023•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 39
The Latin American Left: Opportunities, challenges, and setbacks Speakers: Ana Karine Pereira, Universidade de Brasília Geoff Goodwin, Leeds University Melany Cruz, Leicester University Chair: James Putzel, LSE
Nov 27, 2023•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 38
Gender and Work in Global Value Chains: Capturing the gains? Speaker: Stephanie Barrientos , Manchester University Discussant: Kate Meagher , LSE Chair: Laura Mann , LSE
Nov 21, 2023•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 37
Making Anti-Corruption Real: A strategy for feasible reform in adverse contexts. Speakers: Mushtaq Khan and Pallavi Roy , SOAS Discussant: Jonathan Di John , SOAS Chair: James Putzel, LSE
Nov 13, 2023•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 36
The Russia-Ukraine War: Consequences for global security and development. Panel: Mark Lowcock, UN, UK Yuliya Yurchenko, Greenwich University Anna Matveeva, King's College London David Luke, LSE Chair: James Putzel, LSE
Oct 31, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 35
In search of repair: The necessity of community development to mental health improvements in contexts of adversity. Speaker: Rochelle Burgess, University College London Discussant: Philipa Mladovsky, LSE Chair: Laura Mann, LSE
Oct 23, 2023•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 34
Professor Ha-Joon Chang and Professor James Putzel discuss the state of the world economy. Speaker: Ha-Joon Chang , SOAS Chair: James Putzel, LSE
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 33
Dirk-Jan Koch and Clare Short discuss Dirk-Jan Koch's new book ' Foreign aid and its unintended consequences ' (Open access). Foreign aid and international development frequently bring with it a range of unintended consequences, both negative and positive. This book delves into these consequences, providing a fresh and comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing them. Speaker: Dirk-Jan Koch , Chief Science Officer of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs Discussant: Clare Short , B...
Oct 03, 2023•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 32
This panel examines the record of digital technologies and asks what we might do to re-engineer them to fulfil their early promise. Fibre optic internet cables have now connected almost every part of the world into a giant web of networks. Pundits once claimed this infrastructure would allow everyone to raise her voice, speak her mind, learn from others and hold authorities to account. A decade on, a far more subdued mood has settled, with reports of targeted misinformation campaigns and nefario...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 31
National and global approaches to climate change alleviation are very inadequate because they ignore the important role played by wealth, income and consumption inequalities. Reducing these will be essential for humanity to meet the climate change — and there are feasible ways to do this. Speaker Jayati Ghosh taught economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi for nearly 35 years, and since January 2021 is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. She has aut...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 30
Development studies frames food and fuel riots as the crowd response to the stimulus of price changes, as indicators of impact of economic shocks or policy reforms. In this dashboard view of the world, the masses respond automatically to spikes in the price of gas or bread, sending signals to governments and the international community that inflation is out of control, and Something Must Be Done. Food and fuel price protests evidently indicate a problem with pricing, but that is not all they say...
Nov 15, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 29
This presentation explores the impact of the pandemic on workers across four key sectors of the Palestinian economy: health, education, agriculture, and construction. As with elsewhere around the world, Palestinian workers have experienced multiple challenges due to the Covid-19 pandemic and its associated mitigation measures. In the occupied Palestinian territories however, it unfolded in the context of a captive, fragmented, and de-developed economy that has endured decades of Israeli military...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 28
Economics and science fiction share many interrelations that are rarely recognised. Firstly, a lot of economics is science fiction. Many economists believe in the fiction that they are practising ‘science’, while many also believe in the fiction that progress in ‘science’ (and thus technology) is the solution to virtually all economic problems. Saying that much of economics is science fiction doesn’t mean that science fiction itself is not useful for economics. It has been a powerful way to imag...
Oct 18, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 27
Isabella Weber on How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate. The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series.
Feb 16, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 26
Lise Grande on Reflections on Peacebuilding in Today's World. The lecture is part of the LSE ID Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice series.
Feb 09, 2022•52 min•Ep. 25
