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Sep 30, 2026
Paul CollierGUEST
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Paul CollierGUEST
the International Growth Centre that I co-direct, we sent in a little team to help.
Richard HeydarianHOST
Mm-hmm.
Richard HeydarianHOST
Interesting.
Tewodros Makonnen GebrewoldeGUEST
So, the past 4-5 years, 2019 was 7 years ago.
Tewodros Makonnen GebrewoldeGUEST
Now, the evidence, the support, the policy, the inflation, the international growth center, We had a round table discussion with the policy option at the University of Oxford, London School of Economics, with Professor Ruchmatov at the International Growth Centre.
Tewodros Makonnen GebrewoldeGUEST
We also had a focus on research on inflation and exchange rates.
Tewodros Makonnen GebrewoldeGUEST
We have to make sure that the police don't do anything to us.
Paul CollierGUEST
And they chose a career civil servant called Hamdok.
Paul CollierGUEST
And Hamdok had followed my work and got in touch with me and said, please, will you help? And so the International Growth Center that I co-direct, we sent in a little team to
Richard HeydarianHOST
help.
Paul CollierGUEST
And we got a year to deliver sufficient benefits for the generals, so they had to be lifted off some of the blacklists, and sufficient benefits for the street, so that Hamdok could say, look, by cooperating, this is working.
Robin BurgessHOST
Okay, welcome, everyone.
Robin BurgessHOST
So my name is Robin Burgess, and I'm Director of International Growth Centre and of the Economics of Environment and Energy programme, who are two of the sponsors.
Robin BurgessHOST
of this year's LSE environment week and I just wanted to say two very quick things, one very local which I think is interesting for the LSE which is firstly that the growth in interest in environmental issues from Grantham, energy environment and now across the economics has been very, very quick.
Robin BurgessHOST
And I guess a very easy way of measuring that is the number of PhD students in economics has grown from 304 in 2021 to about 26 now working on that.
Nick SternHOST
And I want to welcome you all on behalf of Environment Week.
Nick SternHOST
the International Growth Center and the Global School of Sustainability.
Nick SternHOST
We're a great mixture of all those things and very cheerfully so.
Nick SternHOST
Now the subject is the road to COP32, an African agenda for climate action and economic development.
Nick SternMODERATOR
And I want to welcome you all on behalf of Environment Week.
Nick SternMODERATOR
the International Growth Center and the Global School of Sustainability.
Nick SternMODERATOR
We're a great mixture of all those things and very cheerfully so.
Nick SternMODERATOR
Now the subject is the road to COP32, an African agenda for climate action and economic development.
Osman SiddiqiGUEST
My writing is kind of all over the place.
Osman SiddiqiGUEST
You'll find some pieces from a long time ago on the International Growth Center and now most recently on the MIT Sloan.
Osman SiddiqiGUEST
But I have my own sub stack where when I don't want anyone else's opinion, I just write over there.
Osman SiddiqiGUEST
I'll ask you once in a while.