Public Authority Podcast

About Public Authority Podcast

The Public Authority Podcast asks how governance and humanitarianism in conflict-affected areas actually functions. Inviting experts to discuss the ways public authorities beyond state actors shape daily lives, political control and economic activity across Africa, the podcast examines aid delivery, development initiatives, localisation, access to justice and service provision. It presents original thinking about the structures necessary for, and barriers to, thriving economic, political and social life. The Public Authority Podcast is created by LSE’s Centre for Public Authority and International Development at the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa.

Publisher

LSE Film and Audio Team

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Oct 2006

Latest episode

3 Feb 2026

Latest episodes

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Inside a recent episode

Developing Rural Areas

Published 24 Sept 2009 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And you may be familiar with that literature. Both the schools and the public health facilities are plagued with very high level of absenteeism. So on average, if you go, so Michael Kramer and co-authors have worked with the World Bank to send teams to either schools or public health centers during opening hours and just find is it open and who is there, who is absent, who is present. And what they find is that in the countries that they look at, on average, about a quarter of the teachers are missing in any single visit. And furthermore, among the teachers who are there, about half are actually teaching. […]

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