Podcast appearances and mentions of Nina Munk

This episode of the Community Solutions podcast will be discussing key points from “The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty” by Nina Munk. This book is about Jeffrey Sachs, a world-renowned economist, and his Millennium Villages Project.This project was based in Africa with one major goal in mind - to raise people out of poverty in rural African villages. In this podcast, we delve into the planning, implementation, and progress of the Millennium Villages Project,including the achievements and pitfalls. Is this project the answer to end poverty once and for all? Keep listening to find out. We hope you enjoy the podcast and learn something new about how to better your own communities! To learn more about Jeffrey Sachs and his current work, please visit: www.jeffsachs.org

Pour la fin de la saison 1 de Spla$h, Etienne Tabbagh a décidé de dédier deux épisodes au vaste sujet de l’aide au développement. Dans ce premier épisode, Il convie Jean-Jacques Gabas, économiste et maître de conférences à Paris-XI Orsay et à l' IEP de Paris. Ensemble, ils décryptent le débat féroce qui oppose deux économistes américains autour de l’efficacité de l’aide au développement: d’un côté, William Easterly, très critique de certaines causes humanitaires, de l’autre Jeffrey Sachs, créateur du programme « Millenium Village Projet ». Pour comprendre l’initiative de ce dernier, Etienne Tabbagh a également contacté sur Skype la journaliste canadienne Nina Munk qui a suivi pas à pas la mise en place et la réalisation de ce projet en Ouganda.Sources et références documentairesWilliam Easterly, Le Fardeau de l’Homme blanc, 2009, éditions markus hallerJeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty, 2005Nancy Birdsall, Adeel Malik et Milan Vaishnav, “Poverty and the Social Sectors: The World Bank in Pakistan 1990-2003”, document commandé par la Banque mondiale, Département d’évaluation des opérations.A. Ganesh-Kumar, Ashok Gulati, Ralph Cummings Jr., “Foodgrains policy and management in India: responding to today’s challenges and opportunities”, Institut de recherche sur le développement, Bombay, et Institut international de recherche sur les politiques alimentaires, Washington DC, 2007Sandrine Chastang, “Toutes les manières de rater un don humanitaire”, Revue du MAUSS, 2008Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Repenser la pauvreté, Éditions du Seuil, 2012Le site du projet : http://millenniumvillages.orgNina Munk, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, 2014Evaluation finale du projet : https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/langlo/PIIS2214-109X(18)30196-7.pdfRéponse de Jeffrey Sachs : https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/langlo/PIIS2214-109X(18)30199-2.pdfPour découvrir Commencer c'est par ici : www.nouvellesecoutes.fr/commencer/Et pour découvrir Banquette c'est par là : www.nouvellesecoutes.fr/banquette/Spla$h est une émission d’Etienne Tabbagh produite par Nouvelles Ecoutes. Cet épisode est réalisé par Aurore Meyer Mahieu. Mixé par Laurie Galligani. Coordonné par Marine Raut. Doublage par Laura CuissardCet épisode de Spla$h est rendu possible grâce à Quitoque, un service de livraison de panier-recette à domicile. Jusqu'au 30 septembre 2018, Quitoque vous offre 30€ sur votre premier panier-recettes avec le code SPLASH. Offre valable dès 57€ d'achat.

Which piece of social science research has most inspired or most influenced you? This question has been posed to every interview in the Social Science Bites podcast series, but never made part of the audio file made public. Now, as we approach the 50th Social Science Bite podcast to be published this March 1, journalist and interviewer David Edmonds has compiled those responses into three separate montages of those answers. In this first of that set of montages, 15 renowned social scientists – starting in alphabetical order from all who have participated – reveal their pick. As you might expect, their answers don’t come lightly: “Whoah, that’s an interesting question!” was sociologist Michael Burawoy’s initial response before he named an éminence grise – Antonio Gramsci – of Marxist theory for his work on hegemony. The answers range from other giants of social, behavioral and economic science, such as John Maynard Keynes and Hannah Arendt, to living legends like Robert Putnam and the duo of Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein (and even one Social Science Bites alumnus, Stephen Pinker). Some of the answers involve an academic’s full oeuvre, while others zero in on a particular book or effort. John Brewer, for example, discusses his own background in a Welsh mining town and how when he went to college he encountered Ronald Frankenberg’s Communities in Britain: Social Life in Town and Country. “That book made sense of my upbringing and committed me to a lifetime’s career in sociology,” Brewer reveals. And not every answer is a seminal moment. Danny Dorling, for example, names a report by his Ph.D. adviser, computational geographer Stan Openshaw, who took two unclassified government reports to show the futility of nuclear war. And not every answer is even an academic work. Recent Nobel laureate Angus Deaton reveals, “I tend to like the last thing I’ve ever read,” and so at the time of our interview (December 2013), named a journalist’s book: The Idealist by Nina Munk. Other Bites interviewees in this podcast include Michelle Baddeley, Iris Bohnet, Michael Billig, Craig Calhoun, Ted Cantle, Janet Carsten, Greg Clark, Ivor Crewe, Valerie Curtis, Will Davis and Robin Dunbar.

Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University and the Millennium Villages Project talks with EconTalk host about poverty in Africa and the efforts of the Millennium Villages Project to fight hunger, disease, and illiteracy. The project tries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in a set of poor African villages using an integrated strategy fighting hunger, poverty, and disease. In this lively conversation, Sachs argues that this approach has achieved great success so far and responds to criticisms from development economists and Nina Munk in her recent EconTalk interview.

Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University and the Millennium Villages Project talks with EconTalk host about poverty in Africa and the efforts of the Millennium Villages Project to fight hunger, disease, and illiteracy. The project tries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in a set of poor African villages using an integrated strategy fighting hunger, poverty, and disease. In this lively conversation, Sachs argues that this approach has achieved great success so far and responds to criticisms from development economists and Nina Munk in her recent EconTalk interview.

Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University and the Millennium Villages Project talks with EconTalk host about poverty in Africa and the efforts of the Millennium Villages Project to fight hunger, disease, and illiteracy. The project tries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in a set of poor African villages using an integrated strategy fighting hunger, poverty, and disease. In this lively conversation, Sachs argues that this approach has achieved great success so far and responds to criticisms from development economists and Nina Munk in her recent EconTalk interview.

Nina Munk's latest book, The Idealist, is about Jeffrey Sachs and the Millennium Villages Project. It is also a book about the efforts that people in industrialised countries make to help poor people. It is a book about vision, passion and hubris. In this episode of Development Drums, Nina Munk tells the story of how she came to write the book, and what she learned about Jeff Sacha, and about development aid, as she did so.

Nina Munk’s latest book, The Idealist, is about Jeffrey Sachs and the Millennium Villages Project. It is also a book about the efforts that people in industrialised countries make to help poor people. It is a book about vision, passion and hubris. In this episode of Development Drums, Nina Munk tells the story of how she came to write the book, and what she learned about Jeff Sacha, and about development aid, as she did so.

Hudson Institute hosted a book discussion of The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty with its author, Nina Munk, and co-moderators Pablo Eisenberg and William Schambra.

Hudson Institute hosted a book discussion of The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty with its author, Nina Munk, and co-moderators Pablo Eisenberg and William Schambra.

Nina Munk, journalist and author of The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book. Munk spent six years following Jeffrey Sachs and the evolution of the Millennium Villages Project--an attempt to jumpstart a set of African villages in hopes of discovering a new template for development. Munk details the great optimism at the beginning of the project and the discouraging results after six years of high levels of aid. Sach's story is one of the great lessons in unintended consequences and the complexity of the development process.

Nina Munk, journalist and author of The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book. Munk spent six years following Jeffrey Sachs and the evolution of the Millennium Villages Project--an attempt to jumpstart a set of African villages in hopes of discovering a new template for development. Munk details the great optimism at the beginning of the project and the discouraging results after six years of high levels of aid. Sach's story is one of the great lessons in unintended consequences and the complexity of the development process.

Vanity Fair contributing editor, Nina Munk, decided to document a high-profile campaign to end extreme poverty. For six years, she followed celebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs’ Millennium Villages Project; a five-year campaign designed to eradicate poverty from a dozen African villages. "I thought to myself, if one of the most admired, most respected macro economists in the world believes that we can end poverty in our lifetime, I'm willing to follow him and watch what happens." Munk, a former Fortune magazine writer and Forbes editor, followed Sachs on his official trips to Africa. She visited and revisited two of the Millennium Villages sites, living among the people there, to see how the project was panning out on the ground. At first Munk saw real progress as the cash began flowing in to the villages. But later, she says all kinds of problems began to emerge. "In some ways," she told us, "everything that could go wrong, did go wrong." An interview with Nina Munk about her new book, The Idealist - Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty.