📢 We are retiring our DevTraC account! Thank you all for your support! For the updates on SOAS development events, publications, and outputs, please follow us on: 🔹 @SOASDevelopment 🔹 @SOASEconomics See you there!

🚨Call for applications! 🚨 Young scholars, don’t miss the #INET-#YSI workshop at organised by @SOAS students: "Big Problems, New Solutions: Reimagining Economic Policy" With stellar line-up of experts: 🔹 @Jayati1609 (UMass Amherst) 🔹 Boitumelo Molete(Trade Unionist, South Africa) 🔹 @JoseA_Ocampo (Columbia University) 🔹 @DanielaGabor (SOAS Development Studies Department) 🔹 Luiz Vieira (Bretton Woods Project) 🗓️ Registration deadline: 22 September 2024 📲 Scan the QR code for details!

📌 ‘New and additional’: why funding climate finance from aid budgets is a problem. Mike Jennings @mikejennings101 argues that donors have failed to provide the promised new and additional funding, which risks undermining action on climate and poverty. Read the full blog here⬇️ rb.gy/36eujv #ClimateFinance #PovertyAction #ClimateChange #DevelopmentStudies #AidFunding #GlobalDevelopment #SustainableFuture #SOAS

📢 Exciting News! Sara Stevano's latest publication on the devaluation of essential work is now available! Don’t miss out on this excellent contribution to the ongoing discussion. Check it out⤵️ @SOASEconomics @SOAS #socialreproduction @ilo

Interested in the future of energy in #Africa? Check out this insightful blog! It explores energy transition from a developmental and production-oriented perspective. #energytranstion #development #GreenEnergy

Read this fantastic article featuring our colleague @TobiasFranz_ ! ⬇️@SOAS @SOASEconomics @tommytanner @nomhossain @YannisDafermos

📌 Check out Peter Mollinga and Andrea Rizzi’s recent research paper “Blooming activism in a drying land: Water justice movements along river Tigris in Iraq” Read full paper here⬇️ shorturl.at/pRD8d #WaterJustice #Water #GrassrootsMovements #Iraq #Kurdistan

Check out excellent articles on the new special issue: “Social Reproduction of Agrarian Change: Feminist Political Economy and Rural Transformations in the Global South” Read all articles here⬇️ @SOAS @estariade @nomhossain @hannahbargawi @FeministOnMarx @SaraStevano @DzodziTsikata

🎥Listen to our colleague @nomhossain expressing concerns regarding the reprisal attacks in the wake of the PM’s resignation: Bangladesh “cannot afford” to repeat authoritarian rule! @SOAS @SOAS_SAI @estariade @lhammondsoas @FeministOnMarx @sndeall @PoMoGandhi @tommytanner

"Pick your weapon: Reflections on the radical black woman and the black liberation struggle" Excellent blog by @SOAS Student @megaamorgan, selected as one of the top entries in the Feminist Political Economy of Development course👉soas.ac.uk/study/find-course… Read⬇️ @DzodziTsikata

Bangladesh is seeing the deadliest crackdown by the government against protesters in the country. Sign the petition demanding the government of Bangladesh to end this repression now: amnesty.org/en/petition/bang… amnesty.org/en/petition/bang…

ICYMI - Watch @SOASDevelopment's @nomhossain sharing her perspective on 🇧🇩's ongoing crisis, with the @BBCNews ! 🎥 link⬇️

Read @valenfrassa_'s feminist political economy analysis of 'Poor Things': "revolutionary in its fearless portrayal of unapologetic feminine sexual desire" even if it fails to challenge social norms, "personally and intellectually liberating" soas.ac.uk/about/blog/what-y…

📣 @SOASDevelopment & @SOASEconomics conceived the theme for #DSA2024 and within that overall theme, the conference had three strands, incl. reproduction and production – highlighted by @Jimiadesina Read more here ⤵️ buff.ly/4bSn5g7

📌 @SOAS Economist Dr Miguel Niño-Zarazúa explores the complex effects of clientelism on economic development, State capacity, and governance in the context of rising populism and autocracies. Read the blog ⬇️ tinyurl.com/554cdp8d

Call for Kigali workshop papers - "Intergenerational Justice in Africa" - hosted by @UR_CASS @SOASPolitics & funded by @LeverhulmeTrust. 3 themes: conflict, care & climate. Hybrid workshop, 5-6 Sept 2024. Applications by 19 July. Some funding available. soas.ac.uk/about/news/call-w…

Congrats @DzodziTsikata and collaborators on @FemAfrica’s latest issue: 📌“Africa’s 21st Century Feminist Struggles: Terrains, Formations and Politics” Read full journal⬇️ shorturl.at/BIpI2 @SOAS @FeministOnMarx @SaraStevano @estariade @nomhossain @ShirinMRai @SOASDevTraC

🌍Althea Rivas joins fellow colleagues @SOASDevelopment Angela Haynes & @HelinaShebeshe to co-convene panel PE04 today from 11:00-12:30 in Room B305. Don't miss this insightful discussion!

Day 3 of #DSA2024 starts off w/ @CramerChristoph introducing Jimi Adesina, keynote speaker. And an amazing lineup of @SOAS speakers: Althea-Maria Rivas, Helina Shebeshe, Angela Haynes, @FeministOnMarx @nomhossain Fathimah Fildzah Izzati, Hannah Bennet @RAxelby @_Emma_Crewe!

Highlights from Thursday at #DSA2024 🌟 🇧🇩 Lively captivating talk by @nomhossain - captured in poetry by @koleDey! 💻 Delegates engaging from Brazil to Manchester! 📚 Sessions publishing in journals @OUPEconomics book series 📖 Book launch by @BrisUniPress on Myanmar.