Is there legitimacy behind the so-called ‘natural resource curse’? How has Covid-19 impacted the architecture of international debt, and what sort of unique challenges does this pose for resource-rich developing countries? This week, the Cambridge Development Podcast is joined by David Mihalyi to discuss the interrelated challenges facing resource-rich developing countries in the context of Covid-19, the subsequent debt crisis, and climate change. We examine whether and how resource-rich countries should industrialise in the face of climate change, and the importance of taking economic and environmental sustainability hand-in-hand in post-pandemic development strategies. David Mihalyi is a Senior Economic Analyst at the Natural Resource Governance Institute where his research focuses on improving the macroeconomic management of resource revenues and furthering the use of open data for policy oversight. He is also a visiting fellow at the Central European University’s School of Public Policy in Budapest.This episode is hosted by Pascual Gonzalez, and jointly produced by Djihad Kramer, Jodi-Ann Wang, Lara Shirra White, Rory Cardy-Phillips, and Johnny Wiley. To find out more about CAMSED, find us on our website, Facebook, or Twitter.