Decolonising Development Studies should not be understood as a call for inclusion alone. (...) Rather, it is about transforming the field’s core assumptions and confronting the power relations that underpin them. ✍️ Our latest blog by @devikadutt.bsky.social www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2509

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"The WHO doesn’t need to chase bigger budgets or private-sector funding as long as it focuses more tightly on some key functions," Professor Suerie Moon co-director of @gvagrad-ghc.bsky.social at the Geneva Graduate Institute weighs in @politico.eu www.politico.eu/article/dona...

DSA-EADI Working Group Webinar Series 2026: Talk by @radleyben.bsky.social about the dynamics of green imperialism in the Congo. 📅 26 February 2026 @eadi.bsky.social Find out more and sign up here: buff.ly/Yyy13jm

🎙️ Uma Kothari from @globaldevinst.bsky.social explores the role of stories and storytelling in research and research impact in this quick soundbite. 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/bY94Id0

"Decolonizing expertise in international organizations demands more than just diversifying expert pools; it requires dismantling the epistemic hierarchies that sustain the status quo" From our "Share your decolonising story" blog series www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2265

💡What were the key highlights of the 2nd #WSSD? → UNRISD experts reflect on why the summit sent a hopeful signal despite global polarization — from the adoption of the Doha Declaration to debates on AI, youth, poverty, social protection, and climate. 🔗 ow.ly/15uS50YeenI

“We all know languages are not simply instrumental means to convey an idea: they shape who we are, how we think, how we sense the world around us” ✍🏻 From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1881

Decolonising Development Studies "involves interrogating the categories, theories, and assumptions that have become taken for granted, as well as recognising that knowledge production is never neutral" www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2509

Join us for a book launch with Guy Standing, as he explores how education has been reshaped by market logics and what it would take to revive it for the common good 🗓17 Feb 🕕6pm 📍SOAS BGLT @soaseconomics.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @possibilist.bsky.social

🆕 in @theconversation.com How local initiatives sustain humanitarian relief amid escalating violence in Colombia’s borderland with Venezuela ✍️ Silke Oldenburg, Anna Leander and Nora Doukkali @gvagrad.bsky.social #Colombia #Venezuela #humanitarian #violence shorturl.at/Dpkpz

📣 Our newsletter just went out! Featuring @tninstitute.bsky.social's flagship report, this year on #fascism, picks on economic development and more news and opportunities from our member community mailchi.mp/eadi/nl1febr...

#Podcast This episode features a conversation between Rosie McGee and authors @johngav.bsky.social and Gabe Schwartzman about their new book, Power and Just Transitions: Struggles for a Post Coal Future in an Appalachian Valley. Listen: www.ids.ac.uk/news/podcast... @illinoispress.bsky.social

DSA webinar: Large grant-funded research centres Do LGRCs deliver the transformative research they promise? Or are there unintended outcomes of this concentration of research funding? Join our webinar on 5 March to explore, discuss and debate. Register: buff.ly/PZjXDMj

📄 𝗡𝗼𝘂𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶 ! "Les Caisses de dépôt : un levier clé pour financer le développement en Afrique", une note brève par Florian Léon et Djeneba Dramé 👉 𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 : ferdi.fr/publications...

Decolonising Development Studies must necessarily be an anti-imperialist endeavour, argues @devikadutt.bsky.social ( @kings-sga.bsky.social) in our latest blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2509

"The implications of the dissertations findings cannot be overstated. They suggest nothing less than radically rethinking how societies are organised ecologically, politically, economically, and technologically. ✍️ From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2473

A new green hierarchy is forming. China leads in high-value manufacturing (...); Southeast Asia is becoming a major centre for processing and assembly; Africa is still largely supplying (...), often under conditions that resemble older resource-extracting models. www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2499

🎥 Watch the discussion with Sara Kermanian (@sussex.ac.uk), Zakiyeh Yazdanshenas (University of Tehran) and #GIGA researchers Diba Mirzaei and Hamid Talebian here: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/gi... #Israel #ForeignPolicy

#MakingTaxDataWork in Uganda! 🗂️ Administrative tax data from the Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) shed light on Uganda’s 2012–2013 income tax reform — higher taxes for the top 1%, relief for low- and middle-income earners. Read here 👉 go.unu.edu/uK1bf

🎙️#SSEEssentials Podcast Spotlight: “Cooperatives and Mutuals”, with Chiyoge Sifa. In this episode, we explore how SSE and cooperatives respond to inequality and conflict, strengthen social cohesion & advance the SDGs amid global uncertainty. 🔗https://ow.ly/fmWq50YcJ3v

Check out this blog post about my recent article in EJDR, based on our recent book, Decolonising Economics with @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social, and @ingridhk.bsky.social

. @jasonhickel.bsky.social calculated that the amount of silver transferred from Latin America until the early 19th century was so huge that, would it have to be paid back with the historical average of 5% interest, it would exceed the global GDP. 🔎 Interview www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2376

IGDC Member Judith Krauss has co-written a blog with Valentina Fiasco and the CONVIVA Collective about the five dimensions of analysis for more convivial human-predator interactions. Read the blog in full here: blogs.york.ac.uk/igdc/2026/02...

In our latest #GIGAForum ONLINE, experts provided insights into #Iran's critical juncture, where significant social and political changes within the country intersect with external pressures in the aftermath of the “Twelve-Day War” between Iran and Israel in June 2025.

The Geneva Graduate Institute is recruiting a new Head of Applied Research Projects (ARPs). Applications are due 1 March for a 1 June start date. Find out more: lnkd.in/eG7wH_kp

Why has the EU–Mercosur Agreement been challenged? The grounds for the challenge and the timeline ahead. ✍️ Ernesto Talvi www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/commentar...

"It is widely believed that Marx did not systematically consider the role of #colonialism within the process of capital accumulation", however, some of his notebooks show he was interested in colonialism all his life" ✍🏻 From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1347

"European colonial policies and interventions in forestry, agriculture and mining in the so-called ‘tropics’ were geared to extractivism and profits. Their social consequences were often devastating, accompanied by slavery, racialised discrimination, violence..." www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2402

"While poverty rates and the contexts in which they play out are different across country contexts, there is one common denominator in the existence of poverty and the stagnating fight against it: a lack of empathy." ✍️ From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492

A new green hierarchy is forming. China leads in high-value manufacturing (...); Southeast Asia is becoming a major centre for processing and assembly; Africa is still largely supplying (...), often under conditions that resemble older resource-extracting models. www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2499

Social Science Fiction "helps us imagine alternative social orders and institutional change, proving particularly useful for hypothesis generation" ✍️ From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2387

📆 In one of the world's most rapidly urbanising regions, developing the cassava trade is vital for meeting food needs. We are running consultations across the corridor this week to turn intentions into bankable projects. Read about the project 👉 bit.ly/4rDs38T

#AGOA is back. While the political signal of the extension is positive and surprising, the expected economic impact is rather negligible given its already limited effectiveness before the US break with the rules-based trading system. New IDOS blog post: blogs.idos-research.de/2026/02/10/a...

Today, we are celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 💡 Watch experienced female researchers at the GIGA share their insights into scientific work and the importance of equality in the social sciences. 💻🔬 #GIGA #WomenInScience #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience

"we are witnessing the progressive end of an empire" "visa restrictions, anti-immigration policies and attacks on academic freedom are driving more students to universities in Europe, [...] However, Europe isn’t impermeable to the climate of fear" Director, Marie-Laure Salles. shorturl.at/wh7Q2

"Discursively, (decolonising Development Studies) calls for discarding any theoretical framework that considers as its starting point an idealized experience of endogenous capitalist development in the gl. North and that makes sense (...) only in relation to it" www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2509

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“In a context of geopolitical turbulence, it is critical to develop a compelling narrative for increased global development cooperation” ✍️ From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2391

📣 New Humanitarian MSc from International Institute of Social Studies Societies in Crisis trains future leaders to understand humanitarian crises as systems, not isolated events. 🔗 buff.ly/s1HaXvH

Registration is open for the 1st webinar on 26 February! "Green imperialism, sovereignty, and the quest for national development in the Congo", with @radleyben.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dsa-eadi-w...

🗞️ UN Press highlights UNRISD’s call for stronger, rights-based social protection and expanded fiscal space at the Commission for Social Development. Read full news: 🔗 press.un.org/en/2026/soc4...

Ahead of @munsecconf.bsky.social, check out this animation exploring how armed conflict affects social cohesion: ➡️ #SocialCohesion should play a key role when thinking about how to deal with the multi-faceted security crises the world is facing today. 📖 doi.org/10.1093/isr/...

How are cuts by the #US and other traditional donor countries reshaping #ODA? And how are non-traditional donors responding? IDOS cooperated with the @munsecconf.bsky.social to provide data on ODA from the five largest traditional and non-traditional donors over the period 2019–2024.

A new green hierarchy is forming. China leads in high-value manufacturing (...); Southeast Asia is becoming a major centre for processing and assembly; Africa is still largely supplying (...), often under conditions that resemble older resource-extracting models. www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2499

Decolonising Development Studies should not be understood as a call for inclusion alone. (...) Rather, it is about transforming the field’s core assumptions and confronting the power relations that underpin them. ✍️ Our latest blog by @devikadutt.bsky.social www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2509

Find the report here: securityconference.org/en/publicati...

This lecture, by Professor Marlene Laruelle of Luiss University, examines whether liberalism is simply in need of reform, it is being fundamentally reconfigured, or whether we are witnessing the emergence of a new ideological landscape altogether. 📅 2 March, Online & In person 👉 shorturl.at/0FINv

Resistance does not need ‘likes’ to matter. Ylkye urges us to work in the shadows, nurture relations, and build endurance. The next world belongs to those who choose presence over performance. This is how to fight fascism. www.tni.org/en/article/a...

Decolonising Development Studies must necessarily be an anti-imperialist endeavour, argues @devikadutt.bsky.social ( @kings-sga.bsky.social) in our latest blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2509