The UN Financing for Development FfD4 conference starts tomorrow! In the first Dispatches from Seville, I show how FfD4 has put 'development outcomes' makeup over Billions to Trillions 'investible development' model (aka Wall Street Consensus) www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/dis...

🔍Check out @lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social 's brilliant piece in the Conversation @theconversation.com "China is reshaping central Asia’s energy sector as Russian influence fades" Read full article here 👉: rb.gy/jszwli @naomihossain.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social

"By becoming a major investor in the region’s energy sector, China is hoping to reduce its dependence on countries such as Russia." Dr @lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social writes for @theconversation.com on how China is reshaping Central Asia's energy sector. theconversation.com/china-is-res...

I wrote something on gas and China in Central Asia theconversation.com/china-is-res...

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The relationship between the Global North and the Global South remains central to understanding our world, and Development Studies focuses on the causes of these differences and their persistence" ✍️ from our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2102

just an incredible episode. Make time for it.

The features of neofascism www.historicalmaterialism.org/the-age-of-n...

📢 Join us for a talk by Shiping Tang, Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai, chaired by Elisa Van Waeyenberge! 📍SOAS, KLT & Zoom 📅 Jan 22 @ 5pm GMT Register➡️: shorturl.at/qQJCD @soasuni.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social

📣 This Wednesday, register now!

Class matters, always.

Interesting new paper from @cornelban.bsky.social and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social in New Political Economy. Happy to see more work on indicative planning and to see the planning research agenda develop in general. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nine out of the top ten countries leading the energy transition to renewables have a publicly owned renewable energy company that drives the process. ℹ️ www.tni.org/en/publicati...

What is the role of the BRI in promoting structural transformation in low- and middle-income countries? @lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social and @lindacalab.bsky.social have put together this fantastic SI, which will be launched on Wed 11 Dec 2025 at 12.30pm. Join us!👇

Please join us for a great IKD Roundtable on: The Belt and Road Initiative and Dynamics of Structural Transformation (launch of the special issue on EJDR @eadi.bsky.social) 🗓️Wed 11th December ⌚️12.30-14.00 Register now here bit.ly/3V6OKUQ

"We deal with Development in the shadow of centuries of a Eurocentric fabric, which managed to obtain global influence pretending to be a universal framework taken for granted." 🔎 From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1608

White hydrogen (Natural deposits of hydrogen): Finding it in large quantities could be a game changer in the energy transition. But there's real possibility of failure and the added risk of diverting limited climate capital for proven emission reducing technologies: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...