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🌍 The Abidjan–Lagos Corridor will link the economic capitals of five countries with a 1,000 km, six-lane highway, through a region that accounts for about 75% of West Africa's trade. Its biggest obstacles are policy ones. Read the brief 👉 ecdpm.org/work/how-abi...

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Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative @ophioxford.bsky.social · 14h

Nearly one in twelve children in developing countries – 71 million – are first generation learners, or 'pioneer children’: they have completed six years of schooling where no adult in their household has done so yet. Read more in our new report: bit.ly/OPHIchildreport

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"Exnovation (...) represents the deliberate and planned process of phasing out unsustainable technologies, business models, laws or entire socio-economic systems" ✍️ @sabrinachakori.bsky.social explores what's needed for #postgrowth food enterprises to thrive www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2641

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Beyond Innovation: Exnovation as a Catalyst for Post-Growth Transitions

By Sabrina Chakori Post-growth entrepreneurship: the need for non-extractivist models There is growing recognition that responding to the socio-ecological crisis requires more than technological fi…

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UNU-WIDER @unu-wider.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🌍 Can natural resources lift countries out of poverty in a warming world? Tony Addison dives into the tough choices facing resource-rich nations in the Global South. Discover how they can achieve growth while protecting the environment! 🔗 Read more: go.unu.edu/FoMZj

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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nominations are now open for the 2027 Bina Agarwal Prize for Young Scholars in Ecological Economics. This biennial award recognizes outstanding research contributions that contribute to human well-being, environmental sustainability, and social justice. Deadline: 15 Nov 2026 bit.ly/4xVUGAP

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ECDPM 🌍 @ecdpm.org · 29/09/2026

🇪🇺 Estonia's X-Road, Italy's PagoPA and Denmark's MitID are digital public infrastructure, but not funded as such. These systems stay national, leaving the shared layers above them to non-European providers. 👉 ecdpm.org/work/digital...

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DSA Ireland @dsaireland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What is AI doing to development, livelihoods and everyday life across Africa? Join DSAI online on 12 October for Beyond AI for Development: Power, Livelihoods and African Futures. 13:00–14:00 Irish time | Free Details & registration: www.dsaireland.org/updates/even...

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UNU-WIDER @unu-wider.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Where is income inequality highest today? The updated WIID Explorer lets users compare country-level Gini estimates and examine how inequality varies across regions and development contexts. Explore the 2026 WIID update: go.unu.edu/RPwbc

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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is a shared sustainability agenda #Beyond2030 wishful thinking or a strategic imperative? 🌐 Read Axel Berger & @jleininger.bsky.social on “The Geopolitics of a Global Sustainability Framework Beyond 2030” in our new flagship report: doi.org/10.23661/r4....

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Switzerland plans to focus its development aid on 21 priority countries from 2029, down from the current 34. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) intends to withdraw from several middle-income countries, the foreign ministry confirmed on Sunday. buff.ly/fbOtF0E

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African Studies Centre Leiden @ascleiden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📢 Just 2 days left to submit your thesis for the Africa Thesis Award 2026! Did you write a master’s thesis on Africa? 🏆 €500 prize 📚 Publication by Brill 🎓 Open to theses from universities in the Netherlands or Africa 📅 Deadline: 30 September ℹ️ buff.ly/UOANokZ

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

⌛Don't miss our second webinar on time and moods of crisis! 🔎How is it is experienced, mediated, and challenged? 📆 15 Oct. 🕓16.00 CEST 💻Online 📎Register: www.eadi.org/news-2/virtu...

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

⚠️ We've got quite a few webinars coming up next month. 💡Stay tuned in and check our event calendar: www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

✍️ In this post from our blog, Portia Roelofs explores whether large grant-funded research centres might unintentionally reinforce ‘the North’s Monopoly on theory’ www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2672

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Unintended Effects of Research Funding Should be Europe-wide Conversation

Do Big Research Grants Lead to the ‘Faux-Popularisation’ of Principle Investigators’s Flagship Concepts?

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📢 The Call for Panels for #DSA2027 is now open! 📍 Join us at @sussex.ac.uk, co-hosted by @ids.ac.uk 💻 The conference will be hybrid, so you can also attend online 🌍 Read more: buff.ly/DFKBmrz

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Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The UN’s authorization of the Board of Peace for Gaza raises a fundamental question: is the UN engaging in meaningful co-regulation or ineffectively outsourcing its responsibilities? Read Senior Research Fellow, Janelle Diller's piece in The Global: www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

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African Studies Centre Leiden @ascleiden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📢 Just 3 days left to submit your thesis for the Africa Thesis Award 2026! Did you write a master’s thesis on Africa? 🏆 €500 prize 📚 Publication by Brill 🎓 Open to theses from universities in the Netherlands or Africa 📅 Deadline: 30 September ℹ️ buff.ly/UOANokZ

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last chance to join our Virtual Dialogue on the gap between net-zero commitments and green livelihoods for young Africans! 📅 1 Oct ⏰ 17:00 CEST 💻 Online 🎙️ Serwah Prempeh · Abbi Kedir · Babette Never · Joscha Betke 🎤 Moderator: Phemelo Tamasiga 🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

⚠️ Don't miss our upcoming webinar on Thursday!

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Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg @abi-freiburg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📝Read Anas Ansar's take on the debate about #secularism in #Bangladesh. In his opinion piece, he argues that lived #pluralism should be seen as a form of #resistance. www.arnold-bergstraesser.de/en/news/anas...

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German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) @giga-hamburg.de · 28/09/2026

In response to #US export controls on #AI chips and related #technologies, #China is pursuing strategies to achieve greater technological self-reliance. ➡️Join, 8 October, for a talk with Guangyu Qiao-Franco who examines China’s response to US technology controls www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/co...

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"A more fruitful approach would be to (...) engage with the wealth of anti-Eurocentric critiques of political economy (...) and to connect these to the material realities of the universities themselves and broader struggles in society." ✍️ @ingridhk.bsky.social www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2660

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Inverted Eurocentrism: The Consumption of Decolonization in the Global North

By Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven At a moment when the United States has recently kidnapped the Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, assassinated the Iranian supreme leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei, is plotti…

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UNU-WIDER @unu-wider.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last moments to apply for our visiting programmes! Applications are closing soon for our popular Visiting PhD Fellowship and Visiting Scholar programmes. Join our vibrant research community in Helsinki! Apply by Sept 30👉 go.unu.edu/x5AD

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School of Politics and Economics @kcl-spe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A new mini-series of essays on large, grant-funded research centres for @eadi.bsky.social begins with our academic, Dr Portia Roelofs ✍️ Read it here 👇 www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2672

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Unintended Effects of Research Funding Should be Europe-wide Conversation

Do Big Research Grants Lead to the ‘Faux-Popularisation’ of Principle Investigators’s Flagship Concepts?

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Belgium's public development aid records its steepest decline since 2001. buff.ly/lDyTuGd

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

📣 Join us for this webinar in Spanish language with Translation! "Matrimonios Infantiles y Uniones Tempranas en América Latina" One in four young women in Latin America and the Caribbean enters a union with a partner before adulthood! 📆 13 October 🕕 18.00 CET www.eadi.org/news-2/virtu...

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you happen to be in Dublin end of October, don't miss our joint Development Dialogue with @dsaireland.bsky.social! 🚩 @tcddublin.bsky.social 📆 29 October 2026 🕑 14.00 local time www.dsaireland.org/updates/even...

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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just 6 days left to apply for this opportunity at GDI!

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African Studies Centre Leiden @ascleiden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

➡️ Carlien Donkor made a visit to Nzulezo #Ghana, documenting the Indigenous craft of stilt construction unique to the community of Nzulezo, that live on the water. ✍️ Read her blog: buff.ly/0FBci1P ✍️ Register for her workshop on Saturday 26/9 during the Day of Languages & Cultures: buff.ly/c0BSe7S

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📰 Our newsletter just went out, featuring @idos-research.bsky.social's flagship book "Sustainable Futures at Stake", picks on #energy, our upcoming webinar, an call from our journal, and open student survey and more picks and opportunities from us and our members mailchi.mp/eadi/nl2sept...

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Two new #CitiesBeyondGrowth publications: an Educational Handbook for those wanting to replicate our urban post-growth training programme, and a Policy Primer with concrete recommendations for transforming cities. Both freely available. www.tni.org/en/publicati... www.tni.org/en/publicati...

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Cities Beyond Growth | Transnational Institute

As cities worldwide face deepening social inequality alongside unfolding ecological breakdown, it is time to chart a different course.Cities are where change is most needed and can have the greatest i...

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African Studies Centre Leiden @ascleiden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📢 Call for Papers: Meat and Mining How can we rethink mining history by placing animals at the centre of analysis? 🐄🐟⛏️ 📍 Leiden, 1–4 Sept 2027 📝 Abstracts (max. 500 words) + short CV due 𝟭 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 🔗 More info: buff.ly/VQkS9hQ

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The budget of Germany's Economic Cooperation and Development Ministry is set to shrink for the fifth consecutive year. Aid organizations warn that the cuts will have severe consequences for millions of people. buff.ly/sIdEeVL

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Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative @ophioxford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Over three-quarters of school-aged children in Afghanistan live in multidimensional poverty, are out of school, or both. They face being left behind in basic education — and simultaneously experience multiple other disadvantages. More in our new report: bit.ly/OPHIchildreport

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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New #FlagshipReport "Sustainable Futures at Stake?" out now! Find today the contribution by @nielskeijzer.bsky.social & Mark Furness on “Europe’s International Cooperation as a Key Component of a Stable World Order”. Read more: 📲 lnkd.in/eDWj42-T #DisruptionAndReform

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Shape the "Urban Future" We are offering 10 PhD positions in our new DFG Research Training Group starting April 2027. Join us in studying urban transformations, water-health links, and sustainable cities. Deadline: Oct 19, 2026 🔗Apply: masterapplication.uni-bonn.de/movein/hoste... #PhD #ZEFBonn

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Bergen Global CMI/UiB @bergenglobal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Back to Bolsonaro or will Brazil 🇧🇷 have Lula for a fourth turn? Join us for lunch and a discussion about the upcoming election and troubles in the supreme court w/ @leivm.bsky.social @josezuritat.bsky.social @sofiarolim.bsky.social and @ykasahara.bsky.social ➡️ Tuesday 29 Sept ⏰ 12:30 📍 here/zoom

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Back to Bolsonaro? - Bergen Global

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

TNI's second director, Orlando Letelier, was assassinated in Washington DC on 21 September 1976. Fifty years later, the political significance of that crime remains undiminished. So too, perhaps more surprisingly, does the personal loss. www.tni.org/en/article/o...

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ZEF Bonn @zefbonn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can regenerative agriculture improve household nutrition for smallholders in Kenya? 🌱🥣 Our new study highlights how sustainable farming boosts dietary diversity through on-farm production and peer learning. 🔗 Read the open access paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... #RegenerativeAgriculture #Food

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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

African governments have adopted bold #NetZero strategies. Yet access to #GreenJobs, entrepreneurship opportunities, & sustainable livelihoods remains uneven and uncertain. Why does this gap persist, and what would it take to close it? Join this virtual dialogue, organised by @eadi.bsky.social ⤵️

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Join our Virtual Dialogue on the gap between net-zero commitments and green livelihoods for young Africans. 📅 1 Oct ⏰ 17:00 CEST 💻 Online 🎙️ Serwah Prempeh · Abbi Kedir · Babette Never · Joscha Betke 🎤 Moderator: Phemelo Tamasiga 🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) @giga-hamburg.de · 21/09/2026

#US export controls on #AI chips and related #technologies accelerated a transformation in China's AI strategy. ➡️Join, 8 October, for a talk with @guangyuqiao-franco.bsky.social on how #China achieves greater technological self-reliance. www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/co...

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Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut Freiburg @abi-freiburg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🤝Anas Ansar on the Mecca Defence Pact and its meaning for Bangladesh In The Daily Star, Anas Ansar examines #Bangladesh’s potential role in the #Mecca Defence Pact, highlighting the more fundamental question: what is Bangladesh’s national #security strategy? www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/g...

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IDOS_research @idos-research.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As #UNGA81 discusses the future of international cooperation, our flagship report "Sustainable Futures at Stake?" explores #UN reform and the future of multilateralism. Read Anna Novoselova & @ronpatz.bsky.social on “A Bold Post-UN80 Reform Agenda”. 📲 doi.org/10.23661/r4....

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

✍️ In our latest blog post, Portia Roelofs (@kings-sga.bsky.social) explores whether large grant-funded research centres might unintentionally reinforce ‘the North’s Monopoly on theory’ www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2672

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Unintended Effects of Research Funding Should be Europe-wide Conversation

Do Big Research Grants Lead to the ‘Faux-Popularisation’ of Principle Investigators’s Flagship Concepts?

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Bergen Global CMI/UiB @bergenglobal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

How does climate change affect agricultural livelihoods when mobility can become a form of adaptation? What is the role of research and data in understanding climate-related mobility and supporting more grounded adaptation responses ➡️ Tuesday 22 Sept ⏰ 08:30 📍 here/zoom

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Climate change adaptation and migration in the Global South - Bergen Global

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