APORDE Podcast Series
The African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) is a high high-level training programme in development economics targeting policy-makers, researchers, academics and civil society representatives from Africa and other developing countries. The programme has been running since 2007 and is a joint initiative between the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) and Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS).
As part of APORDE’s agenda of influencing, educating and reaching a wider audience, it has introduced an APORDE podcast series. This series draws on the community of those that have participated directly in both the international and national APORDE network of heterodox development economists and social scientists.
APORDE Podcast Series
Latest Episodes
20 Years of APORDE: in conversation with Dr. Nimrod Zalk and Prof. Nicolas Pons-Vignon
Twenty years on, what happens when you sit down with two of the people who helped build APORDE and ask them what they were actually trying to change?In this episode of the APORDE Podcast, Thobani K is joined by Professor Nico...
Professor Mushtaq Khan on Governance, Corruption and Industrial Policy
In this episode of the APORDE Podcast Series, host Thobani K speaks with Professor Mushtaq Khan of SOAS University of London about governance, corruption, and why many development and industrial policies fail at the po...
Prof. Mwangi Wa Gĩthĩnji on Decolonial Paths to Development at APORDE 2025
In this episode, Prof. Mwangi Wa Gĩthĩnji (University of Massachusetts Amherst) challenges the idea that there’s a single road to “modernity.” Drawing on his co-edited trilogy Decolonial Reconstellations—especially Volume...
Rethinking Policy with Dr. Seeraj Mohamed at APORDE 2025
Host Thobani K sits down with Dr. Seeraj Mohamed (Deputy Director for Economics, South African Parliamentary Budget Office; Adjunct Professor, UWC) to unpack what sets heterodox/decolonial economics apart from the main...
Rethinking Development & Industrial Policy — Prof. Fiona Tregenna on APORDE’s Impact
In this episode, Thobani K speaks with Prof. Fiona Tregenna (University of Johannesburg; SARChI in Industrial Development) about the evolution and significance of APORDE—the African Programme on Rethinking Development ...
