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Recent Blogposts

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Decolonizing Policy Advice: The Oxymoronic Nature of Danish Researchers Advising a Danish Ministry on a Danish Plan for Africa

Adam Moe Fejerskov, Mikkel Funder, Nauja Kleist - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Denmark has a new strategy for engaging with Africa. In this blog follow some reflections on how we at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) collaborated with colleagues in African research institutions to turn the usual North-driven ”Policy Brief” on its head. Because who gets to influence development policy in European capitals? Who should influence development policy in European capitals? And should European capitals at all be making strategies and plans for Africa?
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What is the Salience of Arthur Lewis’ Ideas for Understanding Global Inequality Today?

Andy Sumner - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
Seventy years ago, Arthur Lewis wrote a seminal paper on economic development in the Global South. At a workshop at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, convened by the EADI Working Group on the Politics and Political Economy of Economic Transformation, co-convenor Pritish Behuria and GDI’s Adam Aboobaker, it was clear Lewis’ relevance is as significant today as ever. This blog reflects on Lewis’ contributions to the study of global inequality.
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Thinking Beyond the Colonial Ecosystem

Touseef Mir - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)
The concept of development has been significant in shaping the current texture of the world and society around us. Not only was development an important tool of the European colonial enterprise, but the notion of development also resonates with similar power hierarchies. However, there is increasing realisation, especially within academia, about not only the colonial beginnings of development but its continued and significant (neo)colonial hues, be it in theory, policy or praxis of development.
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