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The CGD Podcast

International development experts share their ideas on how wealthy countries can promote prosperity in developing countries.

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Prospects for Prosper Africa – CGD Podcast

Prospects for Prosper Africa – CGD Podcast

Landry Signé, Aubrey Hruby, Judd Devermont, and Gyude Moore on their expectations for the new Prosper Africa initiative ... Read more

15 Jul 2019

40mins

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Lessons from Ghana on Universal Health Coverage with Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt

Lessons from Ghana on Universal Health Coverage with Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt

Martha Gyansa-Lutterodt, Director of Technical Coordination at Ghana's Ministry of Health, explains how Ghana's health s... Read more

11 Dec 2019

25mins

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Lessons from Liberia with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Lessons from Liberia with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia and Africa’s first elected female president, on the impact of private... Read more

28 Mar 2018

24mins

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Looking Beyond Aid with Ian Mitchell

Looking Beyond Aid with Ian Mitchell

CGD's Ian Mitchell on why looking beyond aid is important for development, how the Commitment to Development Index measu... Read more

2 May 2019

20mins

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Plan B for Development – World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim

Plan B for Development – World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on robots in the workplace, multilateral cooperation, and the development potent... Read more

9 Feb 2018

21mins

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Looking Forward: Development in 2018

Looking Forward: Development in 2018

What's going to happen in the world of development in 2018? Will we finally understand how to deal equitably with refuge... Read more

14 Dec 2017

13mins

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The International Development Finance Club with Scott Morris

The International Development Finance Club with Scott Morris

CGD senior fellow Scott Morris on how the International Development Finance Club institutions could increase their devel... Read more

13 Dec 2018

16mins

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Targeted Development with Sarah Bermeo

Targeted Development with Sarah Bermeo

Sarah Bermeo, political economist and author of Targeted Development: Industrialized Country Strategy in a Globalizing W... Read more

9 Aug 2018

19mins

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How Businesses Could Help Solve the Refugee Crisis – Cindy Huang

How Businesses Could Help Solve the Refugee Crisis – Cindy Huang

Businesses have unique opportunities to help refugees and improve their bottom line at the same time, says CGD senior po... Read more

21 Sep 2017

19mins

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The Humanitarian System Needs Development Partners – the UN’s Mark Lowcock

The Humanitarian System Needs Development Partners – the UN’s Mark Lowcock

More than 65 million people are forcibly displaced, for on average about ten years. That's the scale of the problem faci... Read more

26 Oct 2017

22mins

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Can Manufacturing Kickstart Growth in Africa? – Vijaya Ramachandran

Can Manufacturing Kickstart Growth in Africa? – Vijaya Ramachandran

China has long been the factory of the world. But as wages there rise, manufacturers are looking to other countries and ... Read more

19 Oct 2017

18mins

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Sounds Robotic: Lant Pritchett

Sounds Robotic: Lant Pritchett

In this episode of new CGD podcast miniseries Sounds Robotic, host Charles Kenny talks with Lant Pritchett about the rol... Read more

3 Dec 2018

43mins

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The Anti-"Sausagefest" Episode with Alice Evans

The Anti-"Sausagefest" Episode with Alice Evans

King's College London lecturer Alice Evans on how social change happens, the consequences of male bias for developing co... Read more

8 Mar 2018

28mins

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A Nation of Immigrants with Denis McDonough

A Nation of Immigrants with Denis McDonough

Former White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough on the state of US immigration policy, the case for refugee resettleme... Read more

14 Jun 2018

29mins

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The Politics of Big Data with Yuen Yuen Ang – Sounds Robotic & CGD Podcast

The Politics of Big Data with Yuen Yuen Ang – Sounds Robotic & CGD Podcast

Yuen Yuen Ang on how to make your data more meaningful, the dangers of big data in cases of oppression, and whether poli... Read more

7 Feb 2019

30mins

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Next Steps for Nigeria's Border Situation with Amaka Anku and Nonso Obikili

Next Steps for Nigeria's Border Situation with Amaka Anku and Nonso Obikili

CGD's Gyude Moore, Amaka Anku of Eurasia Group, and Nonso Obikili of Economic Research Southern Africa on Nigeria's rece... Read more

9 Dec 2019

33mins

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Parenting by the Data with Emily Oster

Parenting by the Data with Emily Oster

Cribsheet author and economist Emily Oster on the data behind health recommendations for pregnant women, how to balance ... Read more

16 Aug 2019

38mins

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To Brand or Not to Brand? with Gyude Moore

To Brand or Not to Brand? with Gyude Moore

Gyude Moore, former Minister of Public Works in Liberia and current visiting fellow at CGD, on aid branding, what China ... Read more

7 Mar 2019

28mins

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Sounding the Alarm on the Rohingya Crisis — Eric Schwartz and Jeremy Konyndyk

Sounding the Alarm on the Rohingya Crisis — Eric Schwartz and Jeremy Konyndyk

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh in a matter of weeks. The UN has called the situation... Read more

3 Oct 2017

24mins

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National Development Banks with Stephany Griffith-Jones

National Development Banks with Stephany Griffith-Jones

Economist Stephany Griffith-Jones on the role development banks can play in innovation, how they should interact with pr... Read more

29 Jan 2019

19mins

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