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Ed Glaeser on the perfect city, the demons of density and what makes cities work

The Four Pests campaign and China's Great Famine

Leonard Wantchekon on youth and governance in African cities

Chris Blattman on how crime captures a city, Medellín, and the future of African cities

Sebastian Galiani on Argentina’s 2017 tax reform

Land reform Lessons from Rwanda’s success

How to build more houses in Africa

How can African cities pay for stuff

The long shadow of British rule India's colonial legacy

Africa's urban century with Kurtis Lockhart

The development economics of AI Lessons and questions

The rise of digital payments in Latin America

Umar Saif on AI policy, Pakistan, data, and what tech ministers should actually do

Raghuram Rajan on India, AI and the future of service-led growth

Josh Lerner on how technology diffuses, venture capital, universities, China and AI

Three ways India is using AI for development

Carbon offsets are broken. Economists have a solution.

Anton Korinek on thinking like an economist about AI, labour markets, and AGI

Special Economic Zones Why they succeed in some countries – and fail in others

AI in Africa with Rose Mutiso

Free school meals The world’s biggest social programme

Will AI be like the industrial revolution

Economists vs Technologists on AI

Do public works programmes work

Vietnam’s economy The remarkable story of the last 50 years

Conditional cash transfers Do they work

Unlocking high-value agriculture in Peru

How Costa Rica became an FDI powerhouse

The nuts and bolts of economic growth

Ideas in Development A New VoxDev Podcast