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18 October 2023

Regards Critiques Sur le développement: Doctoral Days second edition on "Resilience"

EADI is organising partner of the 2nd pluridisciplinary doctoral conference organised by several research teams in Paris, taking place 18-20 October…
31 October 2023

Distinguished Guest Lecture: Remaking the urban in the peripheries: resettlement colonies and differential inclusion in India, 31 October, 11.00 CET

with Karen Coelho
“Resettlement colonies” -- sites of mass formal low-income housing – have emerged on metropolitan peripheries across India over the past two decades,…
14 November 2023

Distinguished Guest Lecture: Latin America and its challenges under the new and disputed global order: Bringing Latin American structuralism to the forefront, 14 November, 15:00 CET

with Víctor Ramiro Fernández
Latin American structuralism, pioneered by Raúl Prebisch and his collaborators, is focused on the strategic links between State, industrialization,…
16 November 2023

Use or misuse? The emerging global challenge of data authoritarianism

Join us on Thursday 16 November, 18.00-19.30, at IDOS, Tulpenfeld 6 53113 Bonn
In cooperation with the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS Bonn) at Bonn University and the German Institute of…

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The complex present and future of urban centres

Tazviona Richman Gambe, Betty Adoch - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

What Is a “Development” Research Project? Transforming Ideas of Development through Development Research

Mette Fog Olwig, Jacob Rasmussen, Lone Riisgaard, Christine Noe, Geetika Khanduja, Peter Taylor, Herbert Hambati, Lisa Ann Richey, Chris Büscher, Paola Minoia - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Development Studies has long operated with binaries such as “developed/developing” and “traditional/modern” that foster implicit assumptions of Northern superiority. As a result, research projects…

Why might Green Finance and Sustainable Blended Finance be needed under the Global Plastic Treaty?

Daniel F. Akrofi - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The proposed global plastic treaty currently being negotiated seeks to end plastic pollution by regulating the entire lifecycle of plastics. To end global plastic pollution and decarbonize the global…

Reflections on Development in Development Studies

Henning Melber - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
There is a history to Developmentalism long before the US-American President Truman’s interpretation in his inaugural address of 1949. He then advocated development as an integral part of Western…

Water, accumulation, and the space in-between

Basile Boulay - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Droughts, floods, shrinking water tables and growing competition to access what is becoming the new gold bring water governance at the centre of the global discourse. While evidently crucial, the…

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Advanced Introduction to Critical Global Development

Uma Kothari, Elise Klein - Global Development Institute (GDI)
This is one of the rare cases where we highlight a non-open access book here, as its critical engagement with dominant, modernist and ahistorical narratives of development sits at the core of our…

Towards peace, decent work, and greater equality. Research evidence for transforming economies, states, and societies

UNU -WIDER - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
UNU-WIDER culminates a 5-year research programme on ransforming economies, states, and societies. The synthesis of the most salient research contributions made is organized in this report by three…

Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-building and Development in Africa

Edited by Sam Hickey - Global Development Institute (GDI)
Why do certain parts of the state in Africa work so effectively despite operating in difficult governance contexts? How do 'pockets of bureaucratic effectiveness' emerge and become sustained over…

Digital Citizenship in Africa. Technologies of Agency and Repression

Tony Roberts, Tanja Bosch (eds.) - P Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
Since the so-called Arab Spring, citizens of African countries have continued to use digital tools in creative ways to ensure that marginalised voices are heard, and to demand for the rights they are…

Decolonizing Research Collaborations. Web-overview of perspectives and initiatives

KFPE - Swiss Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE)
Various obstacles rooted in colonial legacies continue to hinder fair, equitable and effective global research collaborations. Demands to decolonize relationships, practices and knowledge have…

World Income Inequality Database (WIID) Explorer

United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
The World Income Inequality Database (WIID), hosted and maintained by UNU-WIDER for more than 20 years, is now accessible via a new explorer. The WIID Explorer is a powerful tool for accessing and…

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PhD Scholarship Opportunity Enhancing Sustainability of the Irish Agri-Food Sector

Centre for Global Development, University College, Cork (UCC) UCC-CGD
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Senior Program Manager in Global Development

ETH Zürich, Centre for Development and Cooperation (NADEL)
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Visiting PhD Fellowship

United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
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Postdoctoral Researcher Gendered Mobilities

P Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR)
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Doctoral fellow

P Ghent Centre for Global Studies (GCGS - UGent)
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Calls

Request for Proposal - Nexus study - a research project on HDP Nexus

Deadline: 24 September 2023
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Global Development Awards Competition 2023: ‘Nexus of Education, Development and Human Security’

Deadline: 28 September 2023
Global Development Network -
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Call for Papers - Workshop Political Violence in Democracies

Deadline: 29 September 2023
P Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR)
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Call for papers​: Political Economy and Decmocracy, Lisbon, 25-27 January 2024

Deadline: 29 September 2023
P Centre for African and Development Studies CESA-ISEG
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Call for papers 2023 - La integración centroamericana avanzando hacia el desarrollo sostenible, resiliente, innovador e inclusivo

Deadline: 30 September 2023
Fundación ETEA para el Desarrollo y la Cooperación (Fundación ETEA)
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Publications

Financing the UN Development System. Choices in Uncertain Times

Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, United Nations Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office - Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (DHF)
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Participation For, With, and By Girls: Evidencing Impact

Tessa Lewin, Mariah Cannon, Vicky Johnson, Raisa Anna Philip, Priya Raghavan - P Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
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University peers and career prospects: The impact of university ties on early labor market outcomes

Economics of Education Review
Virág Ilyés & Anna Sebők - Centre for Economic and Regional Studies CERS
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Investing and innovating? Spain and the European Defence Fund

Daniel Fiott - Real Instituto Elcano
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Coup d’Etat in Niger: Implications for Security in the Sahel and West Africa

Clement Awanfe Ngueto - Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO)
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