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  • S6 Ep20: How does social media influence conflict?

    S6 Ep20: How does social media influence conflict?
    May 21 2025
    The Reducing Conflict and Improving Performance in the Economy (ReCIPE) programme
    was established in April 2024 as a CEPR research initiative to provide a better understanding of the links between conflict, economic growth, and public policies. One of its themes is the link between conflict and hate speech, social media use, media bias, and propaganda. We need to know more about how media has influenced violence,
    xenophobia, and recruitment for armed groups. Also, how we can use media sentiment to predict a rise in the risk of violence.

    Maria Petrova of the Barcelona School of Economics and Augustin Tapsoba of the Toulouse School of Economics are the theme leaders. They spoke to Tim Phillips about the challenges of researching the impact of media, especially social media, on conflict, and what recent research has discovered.
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    19 m
  • S6 Ep19: Lovegrass Ethiopia: Building a business from the roots up

    S6 Ep19: Lovegrass Ethiopia: Building a business from the roots up
    May 14 2025
    As aid programs are cut across the developing world, the focus falls on what investors can do to help create economic growth. Someone who knows all about impact investing is Yonas Alemu, the founder of Lovegrass Ethiopia, which creates products from teff, a gluten- free grain that's native to Ethiopia and sells them across the world. Yonas abandoned a successful career in investment banking in London to create a business in the country of his birth. He spoke to Tim Phillips about how entrepreneurship can stimulate positive change across Africa and how negative stereotypes of Africa’s dependency on aid discourage investment.

    Discover more about Lovegrass Ethiopia’s products and history: https://thelovegrass.com/
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    33 m
  • S6 Ep18: Improving sanitation: What works and what doesn’t

    S6 Ep18: Improving sanitation: What works and what doesn’t
    May 8 2025
    Millions of people around the world have no access to sanitation. They defecate in the open, or in facilities where it’s hard to avoid human contact, unavoidably spreading disease. One of the Sustainable Development Goals that you don’t hear about so much is the call to end open defecation by 2030. What progress are we making, and what health improvements are we seeing so far? In the latest of our episodes based on J-PAL’s policy insights, Karen Macours of the Paris School of Economics, also co-chair of J-PAL's Health Sector, tells Tim Phillips about how we can achieve this development goal, why it’s not a quick fix, and the surprising results of research into the health benefits of improving sanitation.

    Read the full show notes on VoxDev: https://voxdev.org/topic/health/improving-sanitation-what-works-and-what-doesnt

    Read the Policy Insight on J-PAL: https://www.povertyactionlab.org/policy-insight/improving-sanitation-access-subsidies-loans-and-community-led-programs
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    19 m
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