Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice

By: LSE Department of International Development
  • Summary

  • These podcasts are recordings from the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice lecture series 2023/24, 2022/23, 2021/22 and 2020/21, a visiting lecture series coordinated by Professor of Development Studies, Professor James Putzel and Dr Laura Mann. The Cutting Edge series provides students and guests with fascinating insights into the practical world of international development. Renowned guest lecturers share their expertise and invite discussion on an exciting range of issues, from climate change policy, to pressing humanitarian crises. In 2020, the series took place online, enabling us to host fantastic speakers from around the world and to stream the lectures on YouTube, opening them up to a global audience. Now we are back in person but still recording the sessions to share with our global audience.
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Episodes
  • S5, E8 Authoritarian Sanctuaries: Refugee Politics in East Africa
    Dec 16 2024

    Authoritarian Sanctuaries: Refugee Politics in East Africa

    Speaker: Alexander Betts is Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, and Senior Fellow in Politics at Brasenose College, at the University of Oxford.

    Discussant: Arbie Baguios, 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.

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    1 hr and 53 mins
  • S5, E7 Competition, trade, and sustainability in agri-food markets in East & Southern Africa: a comparison of citrus and soy
    Dec 2 2024

    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.

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    1 hr and 50 mins
  • S6, E6 A very light shade of green? Is the green transition perpetuating inequality?
    Nov 27 2024

    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.

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    1 hr and 53 mins

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