Description: Bill McRaith spent his career building supply chains – from 1980s Britain, to a factory in Panyu, China in 1990, to Ethiopia three decades later. He joins Oliver Hanney to explain what...
Nancy Birdsall revists the East Asian miracle in a recent episode of VoxDevTalks #economics #history #eastasia
Making markets work for smallholders. 🌶️
Despite making up 80% of the farming population in sub-Saharan Africa, smallholder farmers still struggle to sell their produce at a fair price.
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Nancy Birdsall revisits the World Bank's landmark 1993 East Asian Miracle report, exploring how it navigated the politics of industrial policy, what it revealed about export-led manufacturing growt...
Why has Dani Rodrik changed his mind on manufacturing?
In this live episode of the Ideas in Development podcast, he'll join Oliver Hanney to discuss his evolving views, the evidence that changed h...
Armed Groups & Illicit Markets: Building Legitimacy #shorts
Armed groups exploit illicit economies for funds and resources, but often overlooked is their use of informal markets to build legitimacy within communities. This legitimacy facilitates operations ...
In 2025, UNDP and UNCTAD conducted a nationwide survey on clustered MSMEs in Afghanistan, highlighting how these businesses operate, the challenges they face, and their growth potential.
MSMEs ha...
With simple initiatives like constructing shelters in marketplaces to protect produce from harsh weather conditions, to more complex ones, such as creating an app to enable farmers to compare mark...
Before dawn, Bulawayo’s informal markets come alive: women balancing care work with the struggle to earn a living. These spaces, marked by poor infrastructure and daily challenges, are also places ...
In many of the countries and contexts ASI operates, market systems are thin- characterised by low private sector density, weak competition, limited access to finance, fragmented information flows, ...
Expanding access to AI is only part of the story. The bigger question is who captures the economic value it creates.
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Raghuram Rajan on the unexpected origins of India's service-led growth model. #indiaeconomy #india #economicgrowthindia
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How did the 'Tiger' economies grow so quickly, and can India replicate that success.
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#growth #econ...
Explore how the Inter-American Development Bank Group’s flagship report, Development in the Americas 2025: Markets for Development – Improving Lives through Competition, analyzes the role of compet...
What exactly are frontier markets, and why do they matter for global growth, jobs, and investment today? In this episode of Expert Answers, Ayhan Kose, Deputy Chief Economist of the World Bank Grou...
World Monuments Fund conducted interviews at Takiyyat Ibrahim al‑Gulshani and the nearby Taht al‑Rab’ Market in Historic Cairo, one of Egypt’s oldest centers for lantern production.
World Monument...
World Monuments Fund conducted interviews at Takiyyat Ibrahim al‑Gulshani and the nearby Taht al‑Rab’ Market in Historic Cairo, one of Egypt’s oldest centers for lantern production. Lantern making ...