📢 New Policy Brief: How to make aid work in fragile states Aid in fragile contexts needs more than technical fixes. The brief calls for long-term, flexible support rooted in local legitimacy. 📄: go.unu.edu/pTvBB #FragileAid @apvjustino.bsky.social @rgisselquist.bsky.social @anvaccaro.bsky.social‬

Check out our new research by @anvaccaro.bsky.social on the relationship between #inequality and support for #redistributive fiscal policies, leveraging the World Income Inequality Database #WIID, and broadening the lens to include #GlobalSouth. 👉 go.unu.edu/suwd1...

Chairing two panels at this year's Italian Political Science Association Conference (4-6 Sept 2025, Naples): 1.7 – Inequalities and political regimes 10.5 – Measurement in political research Deadline for abstract submissions is today 25 May! www.sisp.it/en/conference-2025/call-for-papers-2025

New #OpenAccess book out now! How States Respond to Crisis reveals how state capacity, authority & legitimacy influenced outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic with 7 in-depth case studies from the Global South. Read the full book 👉 go.unu.edu/DhF08 @rgisselquist.bsky.social @anvaccaro.bsky.social

Aid saves lives www.ggd.world/p/aid-saves-...

Shifting aid £ to defense £ is a false economy. The UK's security requires military power AND the ability to tackle threats like pandemics, climate, and their follow-on consequences, all of which are magnified by under-development. Strategically myopic www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...