Elite bargains for growth
Stefan Dercon on elite bargains and kickstarting economic growth (via the AUL Podcast).
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A slightly different episode today. This is a repost of a recent episode on the Africa Urban Lab’s podcast, in which Kurtis Lockhart (who co-hosted our Cities series) interviews Stefan Dercon - very much an episode I wish I’d recorded!
Stefan Dercon, Professor of Economic Policy at Oxford and former Chief Economist at the UK’s Department for International Development (now FCDO), joins Kurtis Lockhart to discuss what it takes for cities and countries to kickstart economic growth, focusing Stefan’s recent work operationalizing elite bargains in the real world. It’s a wide-ranging conversation on why growth and development depend not only on planning and policy, but on the politics that make growth possible.
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