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VoxDev.org 349 - Ideas in Development: Ken Opalo on the research Africa needs

Hear about the cutting edge of development economics from research to practice.

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Published 30 Oct 2026

Duration 46:05

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Ideas in Development: Ken Opalo on the research Africa needs

S7 Ep55: Armed groups as states: Taxation, security, and civilian support

S7 Ep54: Tracking Kenya's tractors

S7 Ep53: Implementation science in education: Scaling what works

S7 Ep52: Is electricity a weak link in development?

S7 Ep51: The critical minerals scramble

Ideas in Development: GiveDirectly's journey to scale

S7 Ep50: Evidence-based policy: Why one good trial isn't enough

S7 Ep49: Follow the paper trail

S7 Ep48: How politicians co-opt bureaucrats

Ideas in Development: How BRAC partners with governments to fight poverty

S7 Ep47: No Taxation without Administration

S7 Ep46: Rethinking development cooperation: The case for a 'balance sheet' approach

S7 Ep45: Cape Town's day zero: How data rebuilt a city's water resilience

S7 Ep44: Fifty years of Chinese growth: The gradualist reform strategy explained

S7 Ep43: Caste, race, and power: The barriers to political inclusion

S7 Ep42: Masculinity norms and their economic implications

S7 Ep41: How global supply chains are built

S7 Ep40: Using mobile phones to support teachers, parents, and students

S7 Ep39: Ideas in Development: Moving billions to evidence

S7 Ep38: How AI can put 20 years of development evidence to work

S7 Ep37: Why businesses stay small in emerging markets

S7 Ep36: Climate Change Politics in Developing Countries

S7 Ep35: Ideas in Development: Has development economics lost its way?

S7 Ep34: Why farmers struggle to adopt new agricultural technology

S7 Ep33: Interpersonal violence costs the world more than war

S7 Ep32: Courts in the Global South

S7 Ep31: Nonelite Women's Participation in Politics

S7 Ep30: The end of aid dependency

S7 Ep29: What the $1-a-day global poverty line gets wrong

S7 Ep28: Why civil service reform fails (and what actually works)

S7 Ep27: The World Bank's East Asian Miracle

S7 Ep26: Ed Glaeser on the perfect city and the demons of density

S7 Ep25: Roshaneh Zafar on 30 years of microfinance and mindset change in Pakistan

S7 Ep24: Leonard Wantchekon on youth and governance in African cities

S7 Ep23: How killing sparrows contributed to the Great Chinese Famine

S7 Ep22: Chris Blattman on how organised crime takes over cities

S7 Ep21: Boosting farmers' profits

S7 Ep20: Argentina’s 2017 tax reform

S7 Ep19: Can digital credit unlock investment in smallholder farms?

S7 Ep18: The complex link between poverty and health

S7 Ep17: The long shadow of British rule: India's colonial legacy

S7 Ep14: Ideas in Development: Raghuram Rajan on AI, India, and service-led growth

S7 Ep16: The rise and fall of China's overseas lending

S7 Ep15: The rise of digital payments in Latin America

S7 Ep13: Ideas in Development: Josh Lerner on the diffusion of technology

S7 Ep12: Can contact between groups reduce prejudice?

S7 Ep11: Transport policy for economic development

S7 Ep10: Reducing air pollution: Can markets succeed where regulation fails?

S7 Ep9: How skilled migration from Asia reshaped the US economy