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The Africa Urban Lab Podcast

Kurtis Lockhart

6 episodes

African cities are growing faster than anywhere on Earth. The Africa Urban Lab Podcast asks one of the most important questions facing humanity today: how do we make that growth work? We talk with mayors, urban planners, economists, and infrastructure builders about harnessing rapid urbanization for lasting economic prosperity.

Episodes

  1. Mark Roberts on Catalyzing Jobs & Economic Growth in African Cities

    · 1 h 02 min · Episode 6

    Our guest is Mark Roberts — Lead Urban Economist at the World Bank and a lead author of the Bank’s new flagship report, Sub-Saharan Africa’s Urban Awakening: Catalyzing Economic Growth and Job Creation, to which the…

  2. Ken Opalo on Unleashing African Economic Growth

    · 1 h 30 min · Episode 5

    Our guest is Ken Opalo — Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a leading voice on African political economy and development. We discuss what it will take to unleash African…

  3. Daniel Yu on Export Manufacturing & Labor Mobility

    · 1 h 27 min · Episode 4

    Our guest is Daniel Yu — Founding Partner of the Africa Jobs Fund and Founder of Wasoko. We discuss the Africa Jobs Fund's two main areas of focus, in particular export manufacturing and international labor mobility.…

  4. Stefan Dercon on Implementing Elite Bargins

    · 1 h 25 min · Episode 3

    Our guest is Stefan Dercon — Professor of Economic Policy at Oxford and former Chief Economist at the UK’s Department for International Development (now FCDO). We discuss what it takes for cities and countries to…

  5. Astrid Haas on Financing African Cities

    · 1 h 15 min · S1 E2

    Our guest is Astrid Haas — urban economist and one of the leading voices on municipal finance in African cities, whose advisory work spans mayors and finance ministers from across the continent. We dig into the central…

  6. Joe Studwell on How Africa Works

    · 1 h 15 min · S1 E1

    Our first guest is Joe Studwell — development scholar and author of the landmark How Asia Works — who has just published his long-awaited follow-up book, How Africa Works. We dig into the book's central arguments: why…

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