Are you an African economist living in Africa? One week left to submit your paper for funding application for the academic CSAE Conference 2026 Oxford UK, and the CSAE Workshop 2025, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Apply by deadline of 03 August 2025 to be considered. www.csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-confere...

Join CSAE Director Stefan Dercon for a webinar on CSAE scholarships available to African nationals applying to study on the MPhil and DPhil in Economics programmes at the Dept of Economics, University of Oxford in 2026. 🗓️ Mon 28 July, 2 pm WAT, 4 pm EAT shorturl.at/zVEfb

📣Call for papers OPEN for #OxCSAE2026 The CSAE Conference brings together researchers from across the development economics community to discuss Africa. 🎂A special event for us as we celebrate the CSAE's 40th birthday in 2026! Deadline: 14 Sept (funding 03 Aug) www.csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-confere...

Some thoughts on how to have more impact from research. (And an afterthought: I need a new microphone.)

I would rarely do this, but I happen to know Derrick, and even wrote in his support for his applications. So, if you so inclined, this humble, ambitious, widely read, smart young budding African economist will work extremely hard not to disappoint. shorturl.at/RgOVn

I would rarely do this, but I happen to know Derrick, and even wrote in his support for his applications. So, if you so inclined, this humble, ambitious, widely read, smart young budding African economist will work extremely hard not to disappoint. shorturl.at/RgOVn

How can the CSAE Visiting Fellowship scheme help you with your research? We asked Nompumelelo Mohohlwane, Researcher at the Department for Basic Education in South Africa, to tell us about how her time as a CSAE Fellow helped with her work for the Ministry. Watch👇

just apply... plenty of info on the web.

📣4 days left to apply to be a CSAE Visiting Fellow in 2026! Not sure if you want to apply? Listen to interviews with former fellows to hear about their experiences. Bezawit Bahru (Postdoctoral Researcher @unihohenheim.bsky.social) talks about her time at the CSAE.👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5E4...

just apply. more info including Q&A podcast on it on the web.

Worth connecting if you want to join us in Oxford as CSAE Visiting Fellow!

¿Por qué hay países que prosperan mientras otros quedan atrapados en caminos que no conducen al desarrollo?: 'Apostar por el desarrollo. Por qué unos países ganan y otros pierden', de Stefan Dercon @gamblingondev.bsky.social. #Novedad buff.ly/Ex0Clky

Important insight from Stefan Dercon (@gamblingondev.bsky.social): "design interventions that maximise the policy makers’ objective function given their constraints". Economics meets Political Science.

¿Por qué hay países que prosperan mientras otros quedan atrapados en caminos que no conducen al desarrollo?: 'Apostar por el desarrollo. Por qué unos países ganan y otros pierden', de Stefan Dercon @gamblingondev.bsky.social. #Novedad #PróximamenteEnTuLibrería buff.ly/Ex0Clky

🆕 Best buys meet political realities: The political economy of education research Stefan Dercon (@gamblingondev.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @oxfordcsae.bsky.social) explores why policymakers choose education reforms that aren’t supported by evidence: voxdev.org/topic/educat...

Excited to announce the Spanish translation of Gambling on Development Apostar por el desarrollo out with Catarata 28 April 2025 for example see: librerialorcacuenca.com/es/libro/apo...

¿Por qué hay países prosperan mientras otros quedan atrapados en caminos que no conducen al desarrollo?: 'Apostar por el desarrollo. Por qué unos países ganan y otros pierden', de Stefan Dercon @gamblingondev.bsky.social. #Novedad #PróximamenteEnTuLibrería buff.ly/Ex0Clky

¿Por qué hay países prosperan mientras otros quedan atrapados en caminos que no conducen al desarrollo?: 'Apostar por el desarrollo. Por qué unos países ganan y otros pierden', de Stefan Dercon @gamblingondev.bsky.social. #Novedad #PróximamenteEnTuLibrería buff.ly/Ex0Clky

Excellent book, good to have it in Spanish.

Excited to announce the Spanish translation of Gambling on Development Apostar por el desarrollo out with Catarata 28 April 2025 for example see: librerialorcacuenca.com/es/libro/apo...

James Robinson (Nobel Prize winner 2024) & Stefan Dercon (CSAE Director) in conversation at the CSAE Conference about 'Wealth in People'. @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @gamblingondev.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social 📺Watch via the CSAE YouTube channel 👇

Making cup cakes and vanilla coffees great again. 2nd top tariff (47%) on Madagascar ( extreme poverty 80%) to punish them for selling vanilla (production 3000 tons, top export to US). instead of hockey mums buying from US producers (production 0.2 tons).

We have just opened the 2026 CSAE Fellowship scheme. We host and support rising African scholars for 3 months at Oxford. This year we had five scholars visiting. See the application process here www.csae.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel....

We have just opened the 2026 CSAE Fellowship scheme. We host and support rising African scholars for 3 months at Oxford. This year we had five scholars visiting. See the application process here www.csae.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel....

final session at our ⁦‪@Oxford_CSAE‬⁩ conference. 500+ participants. Hundreds of papers. Record representation of rising African scholars. #OxCSAEConference

Less aid is a reality. What's left can be used better. Last few chapters suggesting how.

My op-ed on the aid cuts in the US, the UK and Europe in The Independent: Foreign aid is how countries show their national character to the world www.independent.co.uk/voices/musk-...

"Aid is likely to become more transactional." Professor Stefan Dercon comments on the future of aid in this latest piece in @financialtimes.com 👇 www.ft.com/content/b366... #GlobalAid #Trump #USAID @gamblingondev.bsky.social

Scholarships for African Students - deadline coming up - see below. Note that GRE test at a good level is required. Competitive students who can only take it in coming weeks can submit application by the deadline, and add GRE later. They better let me know by DM!!!!

I had to sign this letter to the UK PM on the aid cuts. National Security is a public good: people rightly expect the state to provide it. How to fund it is a key public finance decision. Sensible public financial management is all about trade-offs. This was the wrong one.

Was glad to contribute to this important letter.

csae.ox.ac.uk/scholarships final application date CSAE scholarships for African economics graduate students at Oxford is 4 March

Centre for the Study of African Economies at University of Oxford will automatically consider all applicants from Africa for full funding for the MPhil in Economics - we have new scholarships for eligible students. How? Just apply asap: deadline 4th March (extended deadline): see below

Aspiring economists from Africa: Extended deadline 4 March Oxford's CSAE offers full scholarships >3 year for African students How? Apply for grad studies in Econ = 2 yr Master's course w/ progress to PhD We automatically consider all applicants www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

🆕 Development Dialogues w/ @yaleegc.bsky.social: The future of evidence-based policymaking & international development 🔊 Stefan Dercon @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @gamblingondev.bsky.social, Trudi Makhaya & Rory Stewart discuss how to ensure that evidence still matters: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

“Don’t try to give the perfect technocratic solution. Think about what’s the best I can do that’s as evidence-based as possible, given the political reality.” @gamblingondev.bsky.social

🔊 PODCAST: The future of evidence-based policymaking & international development A #DevelopmentDialogue collab w/ @voxdev.bsky.social Guests @gamblingondev.bsky.social (@blavatnikschool.bsky.social) Trudi Makhaya & @rory-stewart.bsky.social (@yale.edu) LISTEN: egc.yale.edu/news/250224/... #EconSky

In an age of populism, how can we ensure that facts & evidence still matter in policymaking & international development? CSAE Director @gamblingondev.bsky.social joins Trudi Makhaya & @rory-stewart.bsky.social to discuss this in @voxdev.bsky.social's Development Dialogues voxdev.org/topic/instit...

A new paper, just to provoke - on the political economy of economic policy advice - just out in Journal of African Economies. tinyurl.com/2sx7tda3

70% off audiobook… www.audiobooks.co.uk/promotions/p...

We are growing, we are hiring - 6 new positions in development economics One Ass. Professor Three Post-Docs One Pre-doc One Research Manager www.csae.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

let's start with some publicity: the audio version of my book is now 70% off £8.29 in the UK. www.audiobooks.co.uk/promotions/p...

Only 3 weeks left to register for the ESRA & CSAE public lecture by CSAE Director Stefan Dercon on 'South Africa’s Gamble on Economic Development and Inclusion, Then & Now'. 📆04 Dec, 6 PM (GMT+2), 4 PM (GMT) 🏢University of Pretoria & Online Register: econrsa.org/events/publi...

I had to move...