Main content

Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?

Tim Harford interviews Nobel Prize winning economist professor Angus Deaton about a lifetime measuring inequality.

(Photo: Angus Deaton listens to a question after winning the Nobel Prize for Economics. Credit: Getty Images)

Available now

9 minutes

Last on

Mon 19 Oct 2015 13:50GMT
BBC World Service Australasia

More episodes

Previous

Are Tall People More Likely to Get Cancer?

Next

Oil

See all episodes from More or Less

Broadcasts

  • Fri 16 Oct 2015 18:50GMT
    BBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
  • Fri 16 Oct 2015 19:50GMT
    BBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
  • Fri 16 Oct 2015 23:50GMT
    BBC World Service
  • Sun 18 Oct 2015 04:50GMT
    BBC World Service East and Southern Africa, East Asia & West and Central Africa only
  • Sun 18 Oct 2015 21:50GMT
    BBC World Service
  • Mon 19 Oct 2015 02:50GMT
    BBC World Service Australasia & Europe and the Middle East only
  • Mon 19 Oct 2015 04:50GMT
    BBC World Service Online, Americas and the Caribbean, UK DAB/Freeview & South Asia only
  • Mon 19 Oct 2015 06:50GMT
    BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East
  • Mon 19 Oct 2015 12:50GMT
    BBC World Service except Americas and the Caribbean & Australasia
  • Mon 19 Oct 2015 13:50GMT
    BBC World Service Australasia

Unlock the history and truth behind the data with The OU

Unlock the history and truth behind the data with The OU

Explore how numbers shape, and sometimes mislead us, with The Open University.

When can you trust statistics?

When can you trust statistics?

BBC Ideas discovers three easy ways to help make sense of statistics.

Podcast

  • More or Less

    Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics used in everyday life