Episode 45: Mind, Society and Behaviour (Varun Gauri)
Development Drums
English - May 03, 2015 17:42 - 1 hour - 41.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsNews Government Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Varun Gauri talks about the relevance of behavioural economics to international development.
Behavioural economics is hot.
In this edition of Development Drums, I talk to Varun Gauri, Senior Economist with the Development Research Group of the World Bank and Co-Director of the World Development Report 2015: Mind, Society, and Behavior.
Varun explains the principles of behavioural economics, and discusses how they apply to development economics. He also discusses how these biases also affect development agencies and their staff, and the implications of behavioural economics for development agencies themselves.