Governance, Institutions, and Political Economy Research
Audio: “Indonesia, an Unlikely Democracy”
In this Brookings Cafeteria Podcast, Jonathan Stromseth of Brookings interviews Tom Pepinsky of Cornell about Indonesia and its political system.
Read MoreBrookings Audio: “Where Does Nationalism Come From?”
In this Brookings Cafeteria Podcast, Bill Finan interviews Liah Greenfeld of Boston University about Greenfeld’s book, Nationalism: A Short History.
Read MoreAudio: Is Aid Effective?
VoxDev talks Tim Phillips hosts Stefan Dercon of Oxford’s Blavatnik School about how he envisions making aid effective in a world where the most certain bang for aid bucks might not be where the dollar would be most useful.
Read MoreAudio: Tackling the Challenges of Global Development
Tim Phillips of VoxDev hosts Rodger Voorhies of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a talk on how Voorhies sees the role of the foundation in the world.
Read MoreBook: The Elusive Quest for Growth
In this 2002 book assigned as reading for a CDE course on growth and development, William Easterly picks apart many of the common arguments of “what causes growth?” He brings insightful, hard economics arguments and a careful reading of the research to a perspective that clearly has plenty on-the-ground nous, making for a quick and enjoyable read.
Read MorePodcast: Peace, Security, and the United Nations General Assembly
In this podcast from Brookings Cafeteria, Fred Dews interviews Brookings Foreign Policy Director Bruce Jones regarding how the state of security has changed over the past years and what the United Nations (UN) should be doing about it.
Read MoreBlog Interview: “How to Reform a Government Investment Agency”
In an interview originally published in LSE’s Annual Review 2015-2016, John Sutton of LSE talks about the insights he learned from on-the-ground work with Ethiopia’s government regarding establishing effective government agencies.
Read MoreExecutive Summary: Why Some States are So Much More Effective at Implementing Policy Than Others
In this executive summary, Best, Szakonyi and Hjort write about a 2017 article in which they utilized state procurement as an outcome variable to evaluate bureaucratic efficacy in Russia, much in the way that diagnostics of effectiveness in firms measured by indicators such as sales, costs and profits would suggest where a firm can be improving.
Read MoreVoxDev Video: “Bringing Research to Policy”
Sebastian Galiani of the University of Maryland is currently Deputy Minister at the Argentinian Treasury. Here he talks about the links between academia and policy.
Read MorePodcast: “Multinational Enforcement of Labor Laws”
In this VoxDev talks, Laura Boudreau from Columbia Business School talks about a recent experiment she ran in Bangladesh with multinational buyers in the garment sector and how their involvement changed compliance with safety regulations on the part of Bangladeshi suppliers.
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