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Below you find the most recent blogposts, linking you directly to the EADI Debating Development Research Blog where you can also subscribe to get notified whenever a new post is published. This happens around two to five times a month. Enjoy the read!

Recent Blogposts

From Development Policy to International Cooperation? Europe’s Evolving agenda in a Geopolitical Era

Pauline Veron, Andrew Sherriff - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The idea that the normative foundations of European development policy would be somewhat immune from geopolitics and national political shifts was always wishful thinking. As policy priorities are being rethought and rewritten, a more openly transactional and self-interested approach to foreign policy and economic relations is gaining momentum. Development policy (and ODA spending) in Europe is increasingly being presented as part of a wider approach to international cooperation rather than something distinct.
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From Content Production to Meaningful Engagement: A Collective Reflection on Communicating Development Research Online

Lize Swartz - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The communications landscape around us is changing — seemingly at breakneck speed. Since our last meeting as EADI Research Communications Working Group more than five years ago, especially the online communications environment has all but been transformed.
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The Crisis of Development and Development Studies and Possibilities for Transformation

ebeka Richard Plaatjie - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Development requires human persons to exist. On this basis it is reasonable to suggest that human life or the preservation thereof, is the foremost condition for development to declare and to recognize itself. Basic physiological needs for the survival of human beings such as food, water, clothing, and health care as suggested by Maslow must therefore be met.
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