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VoxDev Development Economics

VoxDev Development Economics

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  • S7 Ep1: How to solve the global reading crisis

    S7 Ep1: How to solve the global reading crisis
    Jan 7 2026

    It’s one thing to enrol kids at school. But that is the beginning of their education. When they are there, they need to learn – and unless that starts with learning to read, we’re failing in our duty to them.

    A new report, produced by a group of literacy experts and is endorsed by GEEAP, shows that improving the quality of reading instruction can sharply increase reading levels in schools in LMICs, and calls on policymakers to act.

    Benjamin Piper of the Gates Foundation joins Tim Phillips to talk about what works, and how it can be implemented.
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    27 mins
  • S6 Ep50: A unified global carbon market

    S6 Ep50: A unified global carbon market
    Dec 17 2025
    When the work well, carbon markets worldwide decarbonise economies and direct funds to the most efficient projects. Yet for these mechanisms to be effective, credible, and equitable, should we move beyond today’s fragmented initiatives and create a unified global carbon market that would integrate compliance and voluntary markets, with consistent standards and pricing?
    Robin Burgess of LSE and Rohini Pande of Yale are authors of a detailed proposal to design and implement this radical concept. Fresh from presenting the report’s insights at COP 30, they join Tim Phillips to explain the potential and transformative impact of a unified market for carbon.

    Download the report https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/Pande%20et%20al%20Draft%20Proposal%20for%20a%20Unified%20Carbon%20Market.pdf
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    43 mins
  • S6 Ep49: How the slave trade shaped development in Europe

    S6 Ep49: How the slave trade shaped development in Europe
    Dec 10 2025
    Many papers in economics have shown the scale of the damage that slavery did to Africa, but can we also make the argument that the slave trade helped cause Europe’s economic development? Ellora Derenoncourt of Princeton is the author of a recently published paper which uses new methods and new data to investigate this question.

    She talks to Tim Phillips about what historical records can and cannot tell us about that link, and what this data tells us about the growth of European port cities.
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    25 mins
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