Podcasts by Ideas Untrapped
a podcast about ideas on growth, progress, and prosperity
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LANT PRITCHETT ON EVERYTHING part 2 from 2023-03-24T11:00
Hello everyone, and you are listening to Ideas Untrapped podcast. This episode is a continuation of my two-part conversation with Lant Pritchett. It concludes the discussion on education with th...
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LANT PRITCHETT ON EVERYTHING part 1 from 2023-03-17T11:15:57
Welcome to the Ideas Untrapped podcast - and my guest today is Development Economist Lant Pritchett. He is one of the most incisive and insightful scholars in the field, and his influence at the...
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SCIENCE, SKEPTICISM, AND TRUTH from 2023-03-11T09:12:46
Hello everyone, and welcome to Ideas Untrapped podcast. My guest for this episode is Decision Scientist, Oliver Beige - who is returning to the podcast for the third time. Oliver is not just a m...
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The Illusion of Autocracy from 2023-02-18T07:04:38
Welcome to Ideas Untrapped. My guest today is Vincent Geloso who is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He studies economic history, political economy, and the measurement of li...
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FOOD POLICY AND ITS CHALLENGES from 2022-03-29T10:42:01
The invasion of Ukraine by Russia - and the ensuing war - has brought food prices back into the news. This is happening on the back of the Covid-19 global pandemic that also disrupted the food supp...
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WHY WE COOPERATE from 2022-02-01T11:00:35
Human cooperation has been one of the most common human experiences, yet one of the most contentiously debated. For some, human cooperation is a unique moral achievement given our multitude of inte...
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EXPLAINING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION from 2022-01-17T13:26:56
Welcome to another season of your favourite podcast! We are starting off the season by exploring the many explanations of The Industrial Revolution with economic historian and writer Davis Kedrosky...
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TALKING SUPPLY CHAINS from 2021-12-03T11:38:22
Supply chains have been in the news a lot lately - because there have been shortages of many important things like food, semiconductor microchips, heating and cooking gas, and even shipping contain...
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PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND ITS COMPLEXITIES from 2021-11-15T11:01:16
Surely the biggest development in the last year is the record speed with which vaccines were discovered for the Covid-19 virus that shut down the entire world. I spoke to medicinal chemist and scie...
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REMAKING A NATION from 2021-11-15T10:48:44
I spoke to Christopher Ogunmodede about some of the major themes from the events in Nigeria over the past year. We also talked about some of his more radical ideas - like the abolition of the nati...
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RULE OF LAW AND THE REAL WORLD from 2021-10-21T11:00:44
''Rule of law'' is the generally accepted description for how well a political system conforms to formal rules - rather than functioning through the whims of the most powerful social or political a...
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EVALUATION OF INTERVENTIONS from 2021-10-15T15:00:58
I had a great conversation with David Roodman - researcher and senior adviser at Open Philanthropy. He played an important role in helping us understand and interpret the evidence on the microfinan...
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THE RETURN OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY from 2021-09-21T10:44:35
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THE TRANSFORMATION CHALLENGE from 2021-08-13T12:30:39
Many low-income countries confront the challenge of transforming from an agrarian or resource-based economy to an industrial economy. We can see this in how countries struggle to diversify their ex...
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SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND THE COLLECTIVE GOOD from 2021-07-30T14:00:11
Welcome to another episode of Ideas Untrapped podcast, where we discuss ideas that promote progress, prosperity, and economic development. We do this by speaking to academics, industry experts, and...
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DEVELOPMENT AS COMPETITIVENESS from 2021-07-15T14:08:55
I spoke to macroeconomic analyst Karthik Sankaran about many of his brilliant insights on economic development process. Karthik long and broad experience working on emerging markets shines through ...
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DEVELOPMENT AND CAPABILITY from 2021-07-02T11:11:30
It was enlightening as expected to talk to Harvard professor of economic development Ricardo Hausmann. He has a refreshing take on all of my questions - and I believe he is one of the most importa...
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Pandemic Post-Mortem from 2021-06-16T13:40:28
I spoke to Decision Scientist Oliver Beige on some of the things experts got wrong about the Covid-19 infection pattern, and the policy response. We talked about those exponential predictions that ...
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ANDREW NEVIN ON OTHER THINGS from 2021-06-13T11:00:02
The second part of my conversation with Andrew Nevin. We talked about the economic development patterns of India vs China's - and what Nigeria can learn. We also talked about his habits during the ...
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ANDREW NEVIN ON BIG TRENDS from 2021-06-06T13:38:31
Andrew Nevin - who is the chief economist of PwC West Africa - returns to the show for a record third time. I spoke to him about some of the big trends that will matter now and into the future. He ...
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CAPITAL AND THE ECONOMY from 2021-05-26T10:00:12
Listen now (63 min) | I had an interesting conversation with investor Andrew Alli. We spoke about how investors price risks, power sector reforms, and his views on the clamour for political “...
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UNPACKING STATE CAPACITY from 2021-04-29T17:42:21
I learned a lot having this conversation with economic historian Mark Koyama. State Capacity has become an important concept to be understood - especially with the current economic and security pro...
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From Transition to Decline from 2021-04-17T14:58:48
Investigative journalist David Hundeyin found himself having to flee the country recently because his reporting has rubbed some powerful people the wrong way. In this conversation, I started by ask...
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Nigeria and the Electricity Problem from 2021-03-17T11:00:27
It is quite common to hear people imply that any government that fixes Nigeria's electricity problem will enter the nation's pantheon of sainthood. But even the promise of immortality has not been ...
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A NEW VISION FOR NIGERIA from 2021-02-24T14:00:05
I had a conversation with former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Professor Kingsley Moghalu, and it was worth every minute. He explained why the CBN has taken the role it has on eco...
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THE COLLAPSE OF LEADERSHIP from 2021-01-06T11:30:04
In the first of a series of end of season episodes - host Tobi Lawson talks to Prof. Pat Utomi about the state of Nigeria, and how it all went wrong. You can listen on your preferred platform Listen
Ideas Untrapped from 2020-12-26T10:00:12
It has been a little over a year since we started the podcast. Host and curator of the show Tobi Lawson is a guest on this episode - to talk about the philosophy behind the project and his opinions...
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MAKING A NATION: THE CASE OF NIGERIA II from 2020-12-04T10:00:48
Here is the second part of my episode with Chris Ogunmodede. We continued the discussion on Nigeria’s political economy. We touched on institutional memory in the legislature and why we need ...
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MAKING A NATION: THE CASE OF NIGERIA from 2020-11-21T11:01:02
I have long admired the thoughts of foreign policy analyst Chris Ogunmodede through his Twitter feed, and it was a pleasure having this conversation with him. Our jump-off point was the tragic fall...
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Prosperity through Innovation from 2020-11-04T08:00:52
I had a conversation with Efosa Ojomo of the Clay Christensen Institute. He is the co-author of the book The Prosperity Paradox - along with Karen Dillon and the late Harvard management guru Clayto...
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Urban Planning in Lagos from 2020-10-15T09:00:43
I spoke to urban planning scholar Taibat Lawanson about most things Lagos city. We discussed housing, overpopulation, infrastructure, and the many problems that have made Lagos hard to live. She de...
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A Conversation About Police Reforms from 2020-10-13T15:54:09
I had a conversation with Elizabeth Omotunde, Emmanuel Era, and Ronke Bankole on the ongoing protest against police brutality in Nigeria. We thought out loud mostly on police reforms, what the lega...
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Counting the Costs of Trade from 2020-10-08T10:01
Trade economist Meredith Startz and I talked about her research on the information costs of trade. We discussed the strategies that traders use to lower costs associated with search (ensuring they ...
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Meta-Institution from the Bottom Up from 2020-09-24T13:00:52
I had a very interesting conversation Shelby Grossman - political scientist at Stanford University. We talked about her research on informal trade in Lagos, and what we can learn generally about ho...
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IU Unplugged - with Walle Smith from 2020-09-17T08:59:40
The central bank’s management of the FX market and trade is back in the news again - so here is my conversation with economist Walle Smith on some of the issues. We recorded this two months a...
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CITIES AND DEVELOPMENT from 2020-08-27T13:00:17
I had a chat with Mark Lutter, founder and executive director of Charter Cities Institutes about the potential of charter cities to boost a nation’s prosperity and development. Our conversati...
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Unemployment in Nigeria - IU unplugged from 2020-08-22T09:59:24
I spoke to economists Omotola Abimbola and Adedayo Bakare on the Unemployment Report released last week by the National Bureau of Statistics. The conversation started with the various trends in the...
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People, Power and Participation from 2020-08-13T08:00:07
I spoke to Ayisha Osori about our political structures and the various ways it is unaccountable to the electorates. She is the current Executive Director of the non-profit Open Society Initiative f...
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Business at the Speed of Politics from 2020-07-24T13:12:05
Abubakar Suleiman, who is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Sterling Bank, is certainly the most interesting banker in Nigeria. In this conversation, we explored the nature of th...
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10% MORE HIVE MIND from 2020-07-17T10:00:51
Garett Jones is one of the smartest people I have ever talked to - and he is at his usual brilliant best in this conversation. We started by trying to see how his latest book fit into the context o...
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IS THIS TIME DIFFERENT? from 2020-07-03T10:47:28
I had a quick chat with the IMF mission chief in Nigeria, Jesmin Rahman. I started by asking her whether Africa is facing another debt crisis. We ended the conversation with Jesmin outlining some r...
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The Political Economy of Big Projects from 2020-06-29T14:05:53
The former Managing Director of Frontier Capital, Olufemi Edun provided an insightful tour de force of the intricacies of financing and managing big infrastructure projects and investments. He prov...
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Founders and Development from 2020-06-15T15:46:01
I had an excellent conversation with Samo Burja of Bismark Analysis. Samo is one of the most original thinkers I have encountered in the last two years, and it was great to have him share some of h...
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Thriving Beyond the Crisis from 2020-06-05T14:56:27
I had an interesting conversation with Eloho Gihan-Mbelu who is the MD/CEO of Endeavor Nigeria. Endeavor not only funds, but also provides advisory and ne...
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IU- Unplugged with Andrew Nevin from 2020-05-29T10:00:47
I spoke to Andrew Nevin about the many implications of the COVID-19-induced global economic crisis. He thinks we are not going to see a "V-shaped" recovery. We also talked about the geopolitical pa...
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IU-Unplugged with Iyinoluwa Aboyeji from 2020-05-19T09:38:06
Co-founder of Andela, Flutterwave, and now with Future Africa. We talked about the demand and supply of governance. His belief that the challenges we have are opportunities. He firmly believes that...
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IU - Unplugged (One for the Fans) with Biola Kazeem from 2020-05-15T10:00:45
We started with a Biola masterclass on the state of sports investment in Nigeria- then it was football all the way. Biola is brilliant, generous, and measured in his analysis. He is quite right on ...
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IU - Unplugged with Ikpeme Neto from 2020-05-12T14:07:04
He is the founder of Wella Health - a company that wants to help solve the demand problem in the Nigerian healthcare sector. Neto is a physician, but he h...
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Responsible Reforms from 2020-05-08T15:00:32
I spoke to the chief economist of PwC in Nigeria Andrew Nevin. We had a conversation on taxes, central banking, and economic reforms in general. Andrew also explained his preferred measure of econo...
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IU Unplugged -with Dolapo Oni from 2020-04-30T10:00:34
I spoke with Dolapo Oni, an energy analyst, and wealth manager. We started off with the recent downward spiral of oil prices. We also talked about his preferred political reform, the capital market...
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IU Unplugged - with Omotola Abimbola from 2020-04-26T15:02:01
I spoke with economist Omotola Abimbola on the CBN governor's manifesto for Nigeria's post-crisis economy. We talked about the flaws of our current development model, and he proposed some credible ...
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IU unplugged - with The Black Bandit from 2020-04-24T11:15:51
An unscripted, unstructured conversation with my friend "the black bandit". The listening options are unchanged (Stitcher Listen
The Merits of the Conventional from 2020-04-12T14:00:31
I enjoyed talking to Nonso on this episode - and many thanks to him for making the time. This is not part of our COVID-19 quickcast series because we had scheduled this conversation before news of ...
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PUBLIC HEALTH 101 from 2020-04-02T15:08:27
I spoke to Dr. Ike Anya, a public health physician and consultant on how Nigeria is responding to COVID-19. We also talked about the funding of the health sector, quality of services, and the many ...
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LOCKDOWN AND BEYOND from 2020-04-01T11:23:01
Akin Oyebode returns to the show to talk about the many implications of COVID-19, the government’s response, and why we need to confront the threat head-on. Please note he is not speaking on ...
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Pandemiconomics from 2020-03-29T15:00:39
I spoke with Adedayo Bakare on the many economic implications that COVID-19 will have in Nigeria. We also talked about the precarious situation it has put Nigeria fiscally - given the collapse of p...
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THE MICROBE AND THE LEVIATHAN from 2020-03-27T18:51:26
This is the first of a series of conversations that will explore issues surrounding COVID-19. Some societies and systems will be permanently altered after the pandemic - and it is important for us ...
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