Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice

Competition, trade, and sustainability in agri-food markets in East & Southern Africa: a comparison of citrus and soy

Speaker: Simon Roberts is Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Johannesburg and Director of the Centre for Competition Economics, as well as Visiting Associate Professor at Wits University

Discussant: David Luke, LSE ID
Chair: Laura Mann, LSE ID 

This event is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice guest lecture series hosted by the International Development Department at LSE.

A very light shade of green? Is the green transition perpetuating inequality?

Speaker: 
Annalisa Prizzon is a Principal Research Fellow at ODI. Her research interests are primarily focused on the reform of the architecture of development cooperation, as well as the policies and strategies of multilateral development banks

Amir Lebdioui is an Associate Professor of the Political Economy of Development at the University of Oxford. His research has focused on industrial policy, export diversification, natural resource management, green economic transformation and biodiversity-based innovation models

Discussant: Parth Bhatia, LSE ID
Chair: Laura Mann, LSE ID 

This event is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice guest lecture series hosted by the International Development Department at LSE.

The Sahelian Question: The ultra-periphery in a changing world

Speaker: Rahmane Idrissa teaches international cooperation at the University of Niamey. His research focuses on the political economy of democratization, political Islam and the problems of the integration processes in the West African region.

Discussant: Aoife McCullough, LSE ID
Chair: Laura Mann, LSE ID 

This event is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice guest lecture series hosted by the International Development Department at LSE.

What's at stake in the US-China Trade War?

Speakers: Elizabeth Ingleson: is Assistant Professor Department of International History and is the author of Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade
Yeling Tan: is Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

Discussant: Robert Wade, LSE ID
Chair: Laura Mann, LSE ID 

This event is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice guest lecture series hosted by the International Development Department at LSE.

Re-examining the History of the Industrial Revolution

Speaker: Michael Mann is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, UCLA and the author of The Sources of Social Power which covers the history of power in human societies from prehistory to the present.

Discussant: James Putzel, LSE ID
Chair: Laura Mann, LSE ID 

This event is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice guest lecture series hosted by the International Development Department at LSE.

The crisis of peace-keeping

Speaker: Marsha Henry is the Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women, Peace, Security and Justice at the Mitchell Institute

Discussant: Myfanwy James, LSE ID
Chair: Laura Mann, LSE ID 

This event is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice guest lecture series hosted by the International Development Department at LSE.

British Aid in a Changing World

Speakers: 
Clare Short is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to 2003
Kevin Watkins is a former CEO of Save the Children UK and is a visiting professor at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa

Chair: Laura Mann, LSE

This event recording is part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice guest lecture series hosted by the International Development Department at LSE.

What the Gene-Editing Revolution Means For Rural Welfare, Global Futures and Social Justice

Speaker: Ronald Herring, Cornell University 
Discussant: Aniket Aga, SUNY Buffalo
Chair: James Putzel, LSE

'Industrial Policy Challenges in the Developing World' 

Speakers: 

• Arkebe Oquaby, Gov of Ethiopia
• Richard Kozul-Wright, UNCTAD 

Chair: Laura Mann, LSE 

'The debt and climate change precipice: How can the global majority cope?'

Speakers: 

• Jayati Ghosh, Amherst
• Ndongo Samba Sylla, International Development Economics Associates
• Kevin Watkins, LSE

Chair: James Putzel, LSE