In addition to the six main episodes of the Aporde Podcast Series, we are pleased to present a supplementary series of interviews. These interviews are hosted and conducted by Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) Communications Officer Nondwe Majundana and feature a diverse range of specialists in the field of development economics.

Mwanda Phiri-Mwewa is an economist who serves as Africa Lead at the Charter Cities Institute (CCI), overseeing CCI Zambia. Previously, she led the Trade and Investment Unit at the Zambia Institute for Policy Analysis and Research. Mwanda has influenced national policies, contributing to key documents such as the 7th National Development Plan and Zambia’s Tariff Phase-down Schedule for AfCFTA. She's authored publications, focusing on trade, investment, and urban economics. Notable appointments include the Capital Markets Tribunal and membership in the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Complex Risks. She holds an MSc in Economics and Public Policy.

In addition to the six main episodes of the Aporde Podcast Series, we are pleased to present a supplementary series of interviews. These interviews are hosted and conducted by Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) Communications Officer Nondwe Majundana and feature a diverse range of specialists in the field of development economics.

Mwangi Wa Gĩthĩnji is an Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director of Economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He co-directs the World Studies Interdisciplinary Project and chaired the Five Colleges African Studies Council. Previously, he held positions at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, focusing on economics and Africana Studies. Mwangi authored "Ten Millionaires and Ten Million Beggars" and co-authored "An Employment Targeted Plan for Kenya," along with numerous articles and chapters. His research delves into the Political Economy of Development, emphasizing class, gender, and income distribution in African agrarian transition and nationhood. He advises multilateral and national agencies, including UNDP and Economic Commission for Africa, and serves on editorial boards of journals like Canadian Journal of Development Studies and African Studies Review.

In addition to the six main episodes of the Aporde Podcast Series, we are pleased to present a supplementary series of interviews. These interviews are hosted and conducted by Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) Communications Officer Nondwe Majundana and feature a diverse range of specialists in the field of development economics.

Asma Othman is an aspiring Social Entrepreneur in providing technological solutions for Africa’s development. She has a BSc and MSc degrees in Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning from Alexandria University.  Asma is currently pursuing an MSc degree in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences with a focus on areas of technology and economics, to provide better development and growth opportunities for Africa.

She is an alumni from the seventeenth edition of the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) in 2023.

In addition to the six main episodes of the Aporde Podcast Series, we are pleased to present a supplementary series of interviews. These interviews are hosted and conducted by Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) Communications Officer Nondwe Majundana and feature a diverse range of specialists in the field of development economics.

Dr Rendani Mamphiswana is an innovation expert and policy scholar. His research focuses on innovation (firm level and national), and policy (science, technology, innovation and industrial in the global South). He is an alumni from the seventeenth edition of the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) in 2023.

In addition to the six main episodes of the Aporde Podcast Series, we are pleased to present a supplementary series of interviews. These interviews are hosted and conducted by TIPS Communications Officer Nondwe Majundana and feature a diverse range of specialists in the field of development economics.

The first interview is with Antonio Andreoni is Professor of Development Economics at the Department of Economics, SOAS University of London. He is also Honorary Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London, and Visiting Professor at the South African Research Chair in Industrial Development, University of Johannesburg.

The African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) is a high high-level training programme in development economics targeting policy-makers, researchers, academics and civil society representatives from Africa and other developing countries. The programme has been running since 2007 and is a joint initiative between the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) and Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS).

This first in a six part series will focus on Who Counts? Ayabonga Cawe will explore with his guests what countries measure and what they do not. This, Ayabonga explains, is crucial to any analysis of social change. His guests in this first podcast include,  Alex Cobham, Chief Executive Tax Justice Network, Basani Baloyi, a development economist with the Institute for Economic Justice and Dr Penelope Hawkins, senior economic affairs officer, UNCTAD.

The African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) is a high high-level training programme in development economics targeting policy-makers, researchers, academics and civil society representatives from Africa and other developing countries. The programme has been running since 2007 and is a joint initiative between the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) and Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS).

This second in a six part APORDE series will focus on exploring the role of conflict on the African continent by consideration whether political economy considerations help in understanding what informs the key conflicts in Africa. Ayabonga Cawe will explore with his guests Thomas Selemane, an independent economic and governance consultant based in Mozambique and Dr Grieve Chelwa, director of Research Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at the New School in the US.

The African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) is a high high-level training programme in development economics targeting policy-makers, researchers, academics and civil society representatives from Africa and other developing countries. The programme has been running since 2007 and is a joint initiative between the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) and Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS).

This third in a six-part APORDE series focuses on exploring how African countries can finance their investment in infrastructure. Should they be relying on some of the new private financing models such as private equity, venture capital or blended financial models to name but a few or should they be looking at building their own development banks and developing their own domestic capital markets to issue bonds for infrastructure and reindustrialisation? Development economist Ayabonga Cawe will explore this and other difficult questions around the impact of these new instruments for developing economies within the context of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as well as within the imperatives of a just energy transition and overcoming energy apartheid. He explores these issues together with his guests Sonia Phalatse, a Researcher at the Institute for Economic Justice and Dr Penelope Hawkins, a senior economist in UNCTAD’s debt and development finance branch.

The African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) is a high high-level training programme in development economics targeting policy-makers, researchers, academics and civil society representatives from Africa and other developing countries. The programme has been running since 2007 and is a joint initiative between the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) and Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS).

This fourth podcast in a six-part African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) series focuses on exploring how technology change as encapsulated in the term – the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) – will impact on finance and capital markets. Within that how finance functions and the distributional consequences of how it does so and how this will impact on who gets what and who does not get access to resources. Development economist Ayabonga Cawe will explore this by unpacking what 4IR is, its impact on all aspects of our lives such as how we live, produce, what we need to survive and how we interact with each other as well as the opportunities and threats of the technologies associated with 4IR such as digitalisation. He explores these issues together with his guests Rashmi Banga, senior economic affairs officer based at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and Dr Milford Bateman, an economics professor whose main research areas have included local economic development, local financial institutions, and cooperatives.

The African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) is a high high-level training programme in development economics targeting policy-makers, researchers, academics and civil society representatives from Africa and other developing countries. The programme has been running since 2007 and is a joint initiative between the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) and Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS).

This fifth podcast in a six-part African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) series focuses on the conversation to data sovereignty and data storage with the emergence of digital technology. The various ways that African economies can advance their digital technologies, develop their capacity for data localisation and the importance of industrial policy to progress the digital potential of African countries. Host development economist, Ayabonga Cawe explores these issues together with his guest Rashmi Banga, senior economic affairs officer based at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).