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Average audio length:
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English
United States
11 episodes
since March 11, 2021
episodic

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LATEST EPISODE 🔗

Today’s episode is the first part of a conversation with Nicolas Pons-Vignon who played an instrumental role in setting up Aporde, the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics, a unique training programme teaching heterodox development economics in South Africa. In this episode, we exp…

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