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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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Common Challenges for All?

Jörg Wiegratz, Pritish Behuria, Christina Laskaridis, Lebohang Liepollo Pheko, Ben Radley, Sara Stevano - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Traditionally, Development Studies has been centred around a demarcation between the global North (Europe and North America) and the global South (Asia, Africa, and Latin America). In recent years,…

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…

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The green economy as plantation ecology: When dehumanization and ecological simplification go 'green'

Vijay Kolinjivadi, Jean-François Bissonnette, Daniel Leguizamon Alejo , Laura Valencia, Gert Van Hecken - Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp (IOB)
This paper describes the transformation of the biophysical landscape of the planet into replicable blueprints of the plantation plot. The plantation as a colonial-era organizational template is an…

Time for Global Public Investment. Leaders and experts rethink sustainable development finance

Global Public Investment Network - P German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
In this comprehensive report, experts around the world reimagine sustainable development finance. Global Public Investment (GPI) is seen as a new and shared vision for a universal and lasting…

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…

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Postdoctoral Researcher Gendered Mobilities

P Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR)
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Oxford Department of International Development, Queen Elizabeth House (ODID)
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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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Call for Papers: Leibniz Environment and Development Symposium (LEADS) 2023

Deadline: 30 September 2023.
German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
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Request for research proposals: Enterprise development for job creation, public revenue mobilization structural transformation and inequality

Deadline: 10 October 2023
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
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Publications

Fuel subsidy protests in Nigeria: The promise and mirage of empowerment

Elsevier The Extractive Industries and Society
John Agbonifo - P Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
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Landscapes of (In)justice: Reflecting on Voices, Spaces, and Alliances for Just Transition

Peter Newell, Roz Price Roz Price, Freddie Daley - P Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
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Global Development Governance 2.0: Fractured accountabilities in a divided governance complex

Global Policy
Sebastian Haug, Jack Taggart - P German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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China’s International Investment Agreement Policy From Rule-Taker to Rule-Maker?

In: China and the WTO
Axel Berger - P German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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Reforming the WTO through inclusive and development-friendly approaches: how to make plurilateral initiatives work for all

Sait M. Akman, Bozkurt Aran, Axel Berger - P German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
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