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S7 Ep21: Clearing the path to growth
Season 7 · Episode 21

S7 Ep21: Clearing the path to growth

VoxTalks Economics

May 3, 202425m 39s

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Show Notes

When a conflict ends, we know how minefields continue to destroy the lives of innocent people. But is there an economic, as well as a humanitarian, benefit to demining? Mounu Prem of Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance is one of the authors of a paper that provides the first estimates of the economic dividend when a minefield is cleared, using records from humanitarian operations in Colombia. He talks to Tim Phillips.