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This is an episode from VoxDev's new podcast series, Ideas in Development. This series has a separate podcast feed, where you can find every episode of Oliver Hanney’s conversations on evidence.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DYOzIhbZlI
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-africa-need-development-economics/id1866874059?i=1000793373513
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3naR6n03DiTzzokWqaJ6cs?si=-CrMmOO1RYi_spJwpm3HNA
Audioboom: https://audioboom.com/posts/8960400-does-africa-need-development-economics
Substack: https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/does-africa-need-development-economics
If every development economist stopped their research tomorrow, would Africa's growth rate in 2040 look any different?
Ken Opalo, associate professor at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service and author of the Substack An Africanist Perspective, joins Oliver Hanney to argue that the constraint on African growth is not knowing what to do but knowing how to get it done. He also explains why Kenya's evidence boom has coincided with declining policymaking, and what happens when policymakers outsource their ambitions.
In this wide-ranging conversation we cover:
- Why the SDGs are the wrong goal for an ambitious minister.
- How narrow evidence reshaped education policy in Tanzania and Kenya.
- The craft of policymaking.
- When a policymaker should actually listen to a development economist.
- How to learn the right lessons from growth success stories.
- What the third wave of philanthropy should fund.
