Cambridge Development Podcast

Gary Dymski is a Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Leeds. He has published numerous books, articles, chapters, and studies on banking, financial fragility, urban development, credit-market discrimination, gender and racial inequality, the Latin American and Asian financial crises, exploitation, housing finance, the subprime lending crisis, financial regulation, the Eurozone crisis, and economic policy.In our conversation with him, we talk about the global Covid-19 recovery, the limitations of blended finance as an approach to raising capital in developing countries, and green finance.This episode is hosted by Pascual Gonzalez, and jointly produced by Djihad Kramer, Jodi-Ann Wang, Lara Shirra White, Rory Cardy-Phillips, and Johnny Wiley.To find out more about CAMSED, find us on our website, Facebook, or Twitter.

Gary Dymski is a Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Leeds. He has published numerous books, articles, chapters, and studies on banking, financial fragility, urban development, credit-market discrimination, gender and racial inequality, the Latin American and Asian financial crises, exploitation, housing finance, the subprime lending crisis, financial regulation, the Eurozone crisis, and economic policy.In our conversation with him, we talk about the global Covid-19 recovery, the limitations of blended finance as an approach to raising capital in developing countries, and green finance.This episode is hosted by Pascual Gonzalez, and jointly produced by Djihad Kramer, Jodi-Ann Wang, Lara Shirra White, Rory Cardy-Phillips, and Johnny Wiley.To find out more about CAMSED, find us on our website, Facebook, or Twitter.

What is the role of industrial policy in today’s economic climate? Is there a place for it in the transition to a new, ‘green’ age? And what is the ‘4th Industrial Revolution’? How can it work to our benefit, particularly for developing countries?The Cambridge Development Podcast is back for Easter term with Mateus Labrunie, PhD student at Cambridge University’s Centre of Development Studies. With his research focusing on the return of industrial policies and state-led development, Mateus joins us for a discussion on how history can inform us on the potential of the 4th Industrial Revolution, and the various challenges and opportunities it presents for developing countries, particularly in light of the climate crisis. This episode is hosted by Pascual Gonzalez, and jointly produced by Djihad Kramer, Jodi-Ann Wang, Lara Shirra White, Rory Cardy-Phillips, and Johnny Wiley. To find out more about CAMSED, find us on our website, Facebook, or Twitter.

Is there legitimacy behind the so-called ‘natural resource curse’? How has Covid-19 impacted the architecture of international debt, and what sort of unique challenges does this pose for resource-rich developing countries? This week, the Cambridge Development Podcast is joined by David Mihalyi to discuss the interrelated challenges facing resource-rich developing countries in the context of Covid-19, the subsequent debt crisis, and climate change. We examine whether and how resource-rich countries should industrialise in the face of climate change, and the importance of taking economic and environmental sustainability hand-in-hand in post-pandemic development strategies. David Mihalyi is a Senior Economic Analyst at the Natural Resource Governance Institute where his research focuses on improving the macroeconomic management of resource revenues and furthering the use of open data for policy oversight. He is also a visiting fellow at the Central European University’s School of Public Policy in Budapest.This episode is hosted by Pascual Gonzalez, and jointly produced by Djihad Kramer, Jodi-Ann Wang, Lara Shirra White, Rory Cardy-Phillips, and Johnny Wiley. To find out more about CAMSED, find us on our website, Facebook, or Twitter.

In our third episode, we welcome the acclaimed economist Gabriel Palma to discuss and provide insight into pressing issues around inequality in development and the Chilean economic experience. Dr. Palma is an Emeritus Senior lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge and Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Santiago de Chile.How is inequality measured, and what is its importance in development research and policy? We discuss Dr. Palma’s conceptualisation of the subsequently dubbed ‘Palma ratio’ as a more holistic and tactile alternative to existing measures of inequality, able to shed light onto various homogeneities and heterogeneities concealed by the Gini coefficient. We also talk through the Chilean economic experience; the nation’s propensity to fall victim to complacency, its struggle to escape from the ‘middle-income trap’ and the ‘reverse catching up’ of advanced economies to Latin America in terms of inequality and economic performance.This episode is hosted by Pascual Gonzalez, and jointly produced by Djihad Kramer, Jodi-Ann Wang, Lara Shirra White, Rory Cardy-Phillips, and Johnny Wiley.To find out more about CAMSED, find us on our website, Facebook, or Twitter.

Why does studying International Development matter in the age of populism? How can we conceptualise populism and democracy within the confines of the nation-state? How does political ethnography attune to diverse belongings and exclusion of people within discourses of populism? What are the mechanisms that characterise the process of populism in countries around the world?Dr. Graham Denyer Willis joins our conversation in disentangling some of the key questions regarding the rise of populism globally, and its socio-political productiveness and implications. A Senior Lecturer in Development and Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge, his research and teaching is concerned with the practices and assumptions of power and forms of violence in the production and maintenance of political authority.This episode is hosted by Pascual Gonzalez, and jointly produced by Djihad Kramer, Jodi-Ann Wang, Lara Shirra-White, Rory Cardy-Phillips, and Johnny Wiley.To find out more about CAMSED, find us on our website, Facebook, or Twitter.

What is the process of post-conflict reconstruction in Mogadishu, Somalia? How does a development researcher navigate the intricacies of their positionality within the spaces of their research? How can development researchers approach the politicized production of knowledge in the Horn of Africa and other areas of the global South, and contribute to more equitable epistemological production?In our pilot episode, the Cambridge Development Podcast is joined by Surer Mohamed, a final year PhD student at the University of Cambridge, and co-host of the award-winning podcast, On Things We Left Behind. Surer illuminates her perspectives on our questions from her research and personal experiences in the post-war reconstruction in Somalia.This episode was hosted by Pascual Gonzalez, and jointly produced by Djihad Kramer, Jodi-Ann Wang, Lara Shirra-White, Rory Cardy-Phillips, and Johnny Wiley.To find out more about CAMSED, find us on our website, Facebook, or Twitter.

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