Ideas Untrapped
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Ideas Untrapped
a podcast about ideas on growth, progress, and prosperity www.ideasuntrapped.com
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Big Ideas with Robin Hanson
Welcome to Ideas Untrapped podcast. In this episode, I talk with economist Robin Hanson. This episode is about an everyday exploration of some of Robi...
Power to the People
Welcome to Ideas Untrapped podcast. In this episode, I speak with economist Sugandha Srivastav about the hidden political economy of electricity in de...
Free Markets in Africa
Hello, everyone, and this is Ideas Untrapped podcast. In this episode, I explored the challenges of acceptance of free market ideas in Africa with my...
America's New Deal
Welcome to another episode of Ideas Untrapped podcast. My guest on this episode is Raymond Fisman, who is the Slater Family Professor in Behavioural...
Global Value Chains
Happy New Year to our listeners. This is the first episode of the year, and I had a conversation with Oliver Harman about global value chains (GVCs),...
Moving from Promise to Progress
In this episode of Ideas Untrapped we discussed the challenges and complexities of education, economic growth, and public health systems in developing...
Learning from East Asia
In this episode of Ideas Untrapped, I sit down with economist Oliver Kim to explore the complexities of African economic growth and the challenges sur...
Trade-offs and Tensions
In the episode, Tobi talks to Dmitry Grozoubinski about the politics and complexities of global trade, emphasizing the tension between free trade and...
The Case for Parliamentarianism
Tiago Santos joins Tobi on this episode of the podcast to discuss Parliamentarianism. Tiago believes that if African countries had adopted parliamenta...
Beyond GDP
In this episode, Tobi talks to David Pilling, Africa editor for the Financial Times. They discussed his book "The Growth Delusion", exploring...
The Dynamics of Growth
In this podcast episode, Tobi interviews Rasheed Griffith - who is the CEO of The Caribbean Progress Institute, and host of The Rasheed Griffith Show...
History and the Future of Prosperity
In this episode, I had a conversation with economic historian Johan Fourie, who is a professor of economics at Stellenbosch University, and the author...
The Promise and Challenges of Charter Cities
In this episode, I had a conversation with Kurtis Lockhart who is the executive director of Charter City Institute - a non-profit that thinks and exec...
Rethinking Good Governance
Welcome to another episode of Ideas Untrapped podcast.
In this episode, I spoke to Portia Roelofs who is a Lecturer in Politics at the Departmen...
SCIENCE, SKEPTICISM, AND TRUTH
Hello everyone, and welcome to Ideas Untrapped podcast. My guest for this episode is Decision Scientist, Oliver Beige - who is returning to the podcas...
The Illusion of Autocracy
Welcome to Ideas Untrapped. My guest today is Vincent Geloso who is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He studies economic history,...
Why Education, Electricity, And Fertility Matter for Development
Welcome to another episode of Ideas Untrapped. My guest today is Charlie Robertson, who is the chief economist of Renaissance Capital - a global inves...
MUDDLING THROUGH - BANGLADESH'S DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY
Bangladesh has transformed tremendously in the last twenty-five years. Average incomes have more than quadrupled, and many of its human development in...
MUDDLING THROUGH - BANGLADESH'S DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY
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Bangladesh has transformed tremendously in th...
PRODUCTIVITY, EXPORTING, AND DEVELOPMENT
We often speak of economic development as a phenomenon of sovereign national countries, but the process by which that happens is through what happens...
TALKING CITIES WITH A LEGEND
I was thrilled to get a chance to talk about cities with Alain Bertaud - he has been one of the most important thinkers in urban planning for the past...
UNDERSTANDING INNOVATION
Innovation is the key ingredient to human material prosperity and an essential factor in economic development. But the importance of innovation is oft...
INSECURITY IN NIGERIA
If you ask any Nigerian today what the number one problem that they think political leadership should tackle - I am fairly certain security will be th...
FOOD POLICY AND ITS CHALLENGES
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia - and the ensuing war - has brought food prices back into the news. This is happening on the back of the Covid-19 gl...
WHY WE COOPERATE
Human cooperation has been one of the most common human experiences, yet one of the most contentiously debated. For some, human cooperation is a uniqu...
EXPLAINING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Welcome to another season of your favourite podcast! We are starting off the season by exploring the many explanations of The Industrial Revolution wi...
TALKING SUPPLY CHAINS
Supply chains have been in the news a lot lately - because there have been shortages of many important things like food, semiconductor microchips, hea...
PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND ITS COMPLEXITIES
Surely the biggest development in the last year is the record speed with which vaccines were discovered for the Covid-19 virus that shut down the enti...
REMAKING A NATION
I spoke to Christopher Ogunmodede about some of the major themes from the events in Nigeria over the past year. We also talked about some of his more...
RULE OF LAW AND THE REAL WORLD
The problem of the rule of law is inescapable in any society - and even more especially in the context of economic development. Policies that promote...
EVALUATION OF INTERVENTIONS
I had a great conversation with David Roodman - researcher and senior adviser at Open Philanthropy. He played an important role in helping us understa...
THE RETURN OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY
I had a very stimulating conversation with Nathan Lane. Nathan is an empirical economist and an Associate Professor of economics at the University of...
THE TRANSFORMATION CHALLENGE
Many low-income countries confront the challenge of transforming from an agrarian or resource-based economy to an industrial economy. We can see this...
SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND THE COLLECTIVE GOOD
Welcome to another episode of Ideas Untrapped podcast, where we discuss ideas that promote progress, prosperity, and economic development. We do this...
DEVELOPMENT AS COMPETITIVENESS
I spoke to macroeconomic analyst Karthik Sankaran about many of his brilliant insights on economic development process. Karthik long and broad experie...
Pandemic Post-Mortem
I spoke to Decision Scientist Oliver Beige on some of the things experts got wrong about the Covid-19 infection pattern, and the policy response. We t...
ANDREW NEVIN ON OTHER THINGS
The second part of my conversation with Andrew Nevin. We talked about the economic development patterns of India vs China's - and what Nigeria can lea...
ANDREW NEVIN ON BIG TRENDS
Andrew Nevin - who is the chief economist of PwC West Africa - returns to the show for a record third time. I spoke to him about some of the big trend...
UNPACKING STATE CAPACITY
I learned a lot having this conversation with economic historian Mark Koyama. State Capacity has become an important concept to be understood - especi...
Nigeria and the Electricity Problem
It is quite common to hear people imply that any government that fixes Nigeria's electricity problem will enter the nation's pantheon of sainthood. Bu...