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VoxDev Development Economics

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  • Hear about the cutting edge of development economics from research to practice.
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Episodes
  • S6 Ep18: Improving sanitation: What works and what doesn’t

    S6 Ep18: Improving sanitation: What works and what doesn’t
    May 8 2025
    Millions of people around the world have no access to sanitation. They defecate in the open, or in facilities where it’s hard to avoid human contact, unavoidably spreading disease. One of the Sustainable Development Goals that you don’t hear about so much is the call to end open defecation by 2030. What progress are we making, and what health improvements are we seeing so far? In the latest of our episodes based on J-Pal’s policy insights, Karen Macours of the Paris School of Economics, also co-chair of J PAL's Health Sector, tells Tim Phillips about how we can achieve this development goal, why it’s not a quick fix, and the surprising results of research into the health benefits of improving sanitation.
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    19 mins
  • S6 Ep17: Improving worker well-being

    S6 Ep17: Improving worker well-being
    May 1 2025
    We often talk about providing not just jobs, but decent jobs, in developing countries. But in many parts of the world, workers still have incredibly harsh working conditions.
    There have been interventions at the firm level to create safer workplaces, better health,
    higher job satisfaction. But have they succeeded? And, if these policies succeed in raising worker well-being, is there a cost or a benefit for the employer?

    In the latest in our collaborations with J-PAL to discuss their policy insights, Achyuta
    Adhvaryu, UC San Diego about their review of the research into worker well-being, the
    policies that encourage firms to improve it, and the outcomes for employees and employers alike.

    Read the full show notes on VoxDev: https://voxdev.org/topic/labour-markets/improving-worker-well-being-good-workers-good-business

    You can find the review here https://www.povertyactionlab.org/
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    31 mins
  • S6 Ep16: What have we learned about the informal sector?

    S6 Ep16: What have we learned about the informal sector?
    Apr 24 2025
    A large proportion of economic activity takes place in the informal sector in every country, particularly in LMICs. Informality, and the lack of rights and protection that goes with it, affects the families who live in slums, the people who take off-the-books jobs, and the firms that choose to skirt regulations. It also affects the governments who want to increase the size of the formal sector – and the revenue they can collect from it.

    Gabriel Ulyssea of UCL and Mariaflavia Harari of the University of Pennsylvania are two of the editors of new VoxDevLit that examines what we know about the size of the informal sector and how it operates. They talk to Tim Phillips about the grey areas between formal and informal, and the limitations of policies that try to increase the size of the formal economy.

    Read the VoxDevLit here: https://voxdev.org/voxdevlit/informality
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    36 mins
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