International Development Economics Associates

Pluralist network of progressive economists engaged in research, teaching, and dissemination of critical analyses of economic policy and development.

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

🥀In memory of Anwar Shaikh. He passed away this month, on October 6, leaving behind an intellectual legacy that will endure for generations, and a boundless enthusiasm for ideas that touched everyone who got to know him or took his classes.
Read obituary by Martin Abeles, IDEAs: https://t.co/1xup3qARrA

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

@WaldenBello of the @focussouth spoke at the IDEAs panel "Why Thailand Should be Suing, Not Hosting the IMF." Link: https://t.co/9tKZwqa5SK

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

Since 2025, @WorldBankGroup has classified Costa Rica as a high-income economy, and since 2023 it has recorded one of the highest GDP growth rates among @OECD member countries.

However, behind this confident image and strong economic performance lies a series of deep fractures that threaten many of the very features that have made Costa Rica so exceptional. These fault lines are the product of decades of uneven growth under a development model promoted by the Global North under the banner of export diversification.

Read commentary by Valeria Jiménez of @TrinityCollege: https://t.co/1WKdmcZBYQ

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

IMF surcharges help fund the IMF by covering lending, intermediation costs, accumulating financial reserves and managing risk. Austerity in the Global South should not fuel the institutional functioning of @IMFNews.

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

On 25 October 2026, 🇧🇷Brazil will decide which model of economic and social development it wishes to follow over the next four years. On the one hand, candidate @LulaOficial is seeking a fourth presidential term with the aim of consolidating and extending his developmentalist policies. In contrast, @FlavioBolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, is striving to become president for the first time, seeking to revive and deepen his father’s conservative agenda.

Read news analysis by Julia Leal of PEPI-@ufrj: https://t.co/LI3MnYnqWZ

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

❓What is the relation between private debt, dollarisation and climate change?
See blog by @cpc01 and @farwasial: https://t.co/5KUWEbO6wY

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

📌Event via Zoom: IDEAs Political Economy Reading Circle
📚Topic: "Celso Furtado: Underdevelopment, ecological limits, and power in Latin America’s radical economic and social transformation"
🎓Guided by: Monika Meireles
🗓Schedule: 6, 13 & 20 November at 6-8pm, UTC -3
🗣Main language: Spanish, with AI-generated translated text for other languages
🔔Register by 4 November: https://t.co/MrPlaKMXAs

The IDEAs Political Economy Reading Circle (PERC) is a new online initiative that brings together Latin American and Caribbean students and researchers for collective reading, discussion, and critical exchange on key thinkers in political economy. Next month, Monika Meireles of @Economicas_UNAM will guide a three-session workshop on the author Celso Furtado, with participants expected to read selected materials in advance and to engage in the discussions.

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

🌎Countries do not have to be a part of the IMF programme to be impacted by IMF policy prescription. See evidence from IDEAs Latin America monitor: https://t.co/k84tgZkRia

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

@pablobarrri This was a live event, unfortunately.

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

📌 Event: IDEAs Political Economy Reading Circle (PERC)
📚 Topic: "Raúl Prebisch: The genesis of underdevelopment theory"
🎓 Guided by: Esteban Pérez Caldentey
🗓 Schedule: 2, 9 & 16 Sep at 10:00-12:00, UTC -3
🔗 Scan QR or visit link to register: https://t.co/DT2ZMrRiey
💻 Participation mode: Online via Zoom
🗣 Main language: Spanish w/ AI-generated translated text for other language

PERC is a new online initiative that brings together Latin American & Caribbean students & researchers for collective reading, discussion & critical exchange on key thinkers in political economy. In September, Esteban Perez Caldentey will guide a 3-session workshop on author Raúl Prebisch, w/ participants expected to read selected materials in advance & to engage in discussions.

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

📌IDEAs independent panel on the IMF in Asia and Latin America: debt distress is a reality in more than half of the 68 low-income countries eligible for the International Monetary Fund’s Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust, but the very concept of low-income countries is linear.

More about the panel: https://t.co/2UbfN8KJo1

[Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social @nssylla]

This new @DevEconNetwork working paper by @redgenkosi shows the limitations of the dominant approach to “domestic resource mobilization” (collecting more taxes in domestic currency) and suggests an alternative paradigm for financing #Africa’s #development
https://t.co/zrl0UHqxsn

[Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social @nssylla]

This new @DevEconNetwork paper by Shakirudeen Taiwo surveys #African cross-border #payment landscape, shows the various facets of the continent’s “payment dependency” and suggests ways towards a functional Pan-African payments ecosystem.
https://t.co/ZJSlD7wWNh

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

"Debt swaps should not be promoted as debt restructuring instruments. They are a fundamentally different approach to the dilemma of sovereign debt in the Global South. Debt swaps are transactional debt conversion instruments that are often complex and involve significant amount of public subsidy and constraints on policy space without necessarily corresponding gains in fiscal headroom in developing countries. The current lure of debt swaps for Global South countries as enablers of debt relief is a misrepresentation of what these instruments actually do."

Read commentary by Celine Tan, @farwasial and Arınç Onat Kılıç on debt swaps and the fiction of debt relief: https://t.co/JwAruNWzYP

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

**TODAY AT 9:30 (BANGKOK TIME)**
📌 Panel event: “@IMFNews in Asia & Latin America: Historical & contemporary reckoning”. Read: https://t.co/2UbfN8KJo1
🗓 Schedule: 14 Oct, 9:30-13:15 (Bangkok time)
✋🏼 Participation mode: Hybrid
* https://t.co/GT1XEZWOXv - join via Zoom, or
* https://t.co/w840JInwu9 - RSVP to attend in person at Crowne Plaza Bangkok Lumpini Park #IMFMeetings #WBGMeetings

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

❓What are contrasts & similarities in indebtedness in Asia & Latin America, and how IMF policies transformed in both regions over years?
📌Learn more by attending our independent panel event: “IMF in Asia & Latin America: Historical & contemporary reckoning”, happening during week of Civil Society Policy Forum. Read: https://t.co/2UbfN8KJo1
🗓 Sched: 14 Oct, 9:30-13:15 (Bangkok time)
✋🏼Participation mode: Hybrid
* https://t.co/w840JInwu9 - RSVP via link to attend in person at Crowne Plaza Bangkok Lumpini Park
* https://t.co/GT1XEZWOXv - Bookmark this link for Zoom session

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

From today's panel "The IMF & imperialism: New developments in Asia" at the People's Assembly, with IDEAs, @cfa_ind & @focussouth.
🙏Thanks to @AsianPeoplesMvt for hosting.
@IMFNews #IMFMeetings #WBGmeetings

[Centre for Financial Accountability @cfa_ind]

CP Chandrasekhar (IDEAs), Anusha Lall (Focus on the Global South), Anirban Bhattacharya (CFA) spoke in a round table discussing the changing contours of IMF's roles and its footprint in the session titled The IMF and Imperialism: New Developments in Asia organised by IDEAs and moderated by Farwa Sial (IDEAs).

@cpc01 @BanOrAnir @focussouth @farwasial

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

Rising debt & pervasive conditionality continue to shape International Monetary Fund’s role across Global South.

Join us at IDEAs event “The IMF in Asia & Latin America: Historical & Contemporary Reckoning” to discuss these & other key findings from IDEAs’ research on the Fund’s evolving role.

🔴Bangkok | October 14 | Hybrid event
https://t.co/qPN3Xyfo1i

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

💬For decades, a remarkably resilient narrative has structured policy discourse within @UN system, @IMFNews, @WorldBankGroup & finance ministries across Global South: the assertion that “there is no money”. The presumption of fiscal scarcity constitutes conceptual foundation of what has come to be known, in the language of development policy technocracy, as domestic resource mobilisation.

Read @redgenkosi's blog on why “mobilising” domestic resources does not finance development & what to do instead: https://t.co/XPsSVdAWXZ

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

**TOMORROW MORNING AT 9:30 (BANGKOK TIME)**
📌 Panel event: “@IMFNews in Asia & Latin America: Historical & contemporary reckoning”. More: https://t.co/2UbfN8KJo1
🗓 Sched: 14 Oct, 9:30-13:15 (Bangkok time)
✋🏼 Participation mode: Hybrid
* https://t.co/w840JInwu9 - RSVP via link to attend in person at Crowne Plaza Bangkok Lumpini Park, or
* https://t.co/GT1XEZWOXv - Bookmark link for Zoom session
#IMFMeetings #WBGMeetings

[International Development Economics Associates @DevEconNetwork]

📌Participate in our independent panel event: “IMF in Asia & Latin America: Historical & contemporary reckoning”, happening during week of Civil Society Policy Forum. Read: https://t.co/2UbfN8KJo1
🗓 Sched: 14 Oct, 9:30-13:15 (Bangkok time)
✋🏼Participation mode: Hybrid
* https://t.co/w840JInwu9 - RSVP via link to attend in person at Crowne Plaza Bangkok Lumpini Park
* https://t.co/GT1XEZWOXv - Bookmark this link for Zoom session #CSPF