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VoxDev Development Economics

VoxDev Development Economics

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 Hear about the cutting edge of development economics from research to practice. VoxDev.org Political Science Politics & Government Science Social Sciences
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  • S6 Ep32: Contraception without prejudice: Reducing bias in family planning

    S6 Ep32: Contraception without prejudice: Reducing bias in family planning
    Aug 13 2025
    Like all of us, healthcare providers bring their biases to work. But if those biases result in a reduced level of care for their patients, how can we correct them?

    An innovative experiment in three very different countries attempted to reduce bias in contraceptive care for women. Zachary Wagner of USC and Manisha Shah of UC Berkeley were two of a multidisciplinary team that implemented program and evaluated the results. They talk to Tim Phillips about how biases shape contraceptive care, the methods that can help us to understand why they arise, and the challenges of creating a program that can work in different cultural and religious settings.
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    25 mins
  • S6 Ep31: Partnering with business for development economics research

    S6 Ep31: Partnering with business for development economics research
    Jul 31 2025
    In the second of our two podcasts with Francis Annan of UC Berkeley on his research on mobile money first in Ghana, then beyond, Tim Phillips discusses how he worked with commercial providers, not just to set up the RCTs designed to investigate the extent and reduce financial fraud, but to ensure that the insights could be scaled up.

    While contacting sceptical commercial providers can often meet with little or no response, he says, the ability to frame research in a way that makes them realise the commercial value as well as the social value can get, and keep, their attention – and lead to a long-run partnership that achieves more than working independently or through regulators.
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    24 mins
  • S6 Ep30: Mobile money in Ghana

    S6 Ep30: Mobile money in Ghana
    Jul 29 2025
    How can we design digital financial inclusion that minimizes fraud and maximises the benefit to the community in rural, low-trust, or cash-heavy economies? That’s the question posed by three studies of how mobile money works, or sometimes does not work, in Ghana’s villages. The author of those three studies: Francis Annan of Berkeley.

    In part one of a two-part VoxDev Talks special, Tim Phillips talks to Francis about this research, which has been a big part of his working life since he was a graduate student, the innovative interventions to minimise fraud and misconduct from the agents who supply mobile money, and what this tells us about how to protect consumers in remote locations.

    Read the full show notes: https://voxdev.org/topic/finance/mobile-money-ghana-lessons-boosting-financial-inclusion
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    32 mins
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