Pillars of prosperity

Presentations

Video

Keynote Address by Sir Tim Besley, "Trust as State Capacity"

3 Jun 2022: Chaired by UNU-WIDER Director Kunal Sen, Sir Tim Besley discusses the link between trust in government and building states that are effective in taxing, regulating and providing public services. He begins by reviewing a standard top-down approach to state capacity building and then lays out a canonical framework where trust is central. The framework reflects on some empirical evidence. He also discusses what we know about how trust is built and sustained as well as the link between trust and forms of unrest. View video...

A new approach to state fragility

CIFAR, IGC, and the British Academy host a panel discussion with Sir Tim Besley (LSE), Rachel Glennerster (DFID), Adnan Khan (IGC), and Roger Myerson (University of Chicago) to discuss the findings of the LSE-Oxford Fragility Commission's report 'Escaping the Fragility Trap'. View video...

Political Economy and Development: a progress report

Tim Besley's inaugural lecture as Sir William Arthur Lewis Chair in Development Economics. A major change in mainstream thinking in economics over the past 25 years has been towards improving our understanding of how the policy process (political and bureaucrat) affects policy outcomes... Read more & view video...

Growth Challenges in Fragile States

Tim Besley, Paul Collier and Robin Burgess explore the major challenges that state fragility poses for creating an environment conducive to sustained and inclusive economic growth. View video...

Zvi Griliches Memorial Lectures

Pillars of Prosperity - The Political Economics of Development Clusters, Lecture 1

This presentation on 23 May 2011 was the first of 3 Zvi Griliches Memorial Lectures hosted by the New Economic School, Moscow. View video...

Pillars of Prosperity - The Political Economics of Development Clusters, Lecture 2

This presentation on 24 May 2011 was the second of 3 Zvi Griliches Memorial Lectures hosted by the New Economic School, Moscow. View video...

Pillars of Prosperity - The Political Economics of Development Clusters, Lecture 3

This presentation on 25 May 2011 was the third of 3 Zvi Griliches Memorial Lectures hosted by the New Economic School, Moscow. View video...

Podcasts

State capacity and development - 24 June 2011

In this Vox Talks podcast Tim Besley talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about the importance of a country's fiscal capacity and legal capacity for its development prospects - and the link to policy debates about 'fragile states'. The interview was recorded in London in June 2011 after a 'blue-sky' conference on development policy-making organised by CAGE, the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the World Economy at the University of Warwick.

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