Cambridge Society for Social Economic Development

CAMSED (Cambridge Society for Social and Economic Development) is an initiative of postgraduate students of the Centre of Development Studies at Cambridge.

[Cambridge Society for Social Economic Development @TheCAMSED]

New episode out! Listen to the first part of our conversation about financing development with @GADymski, a Professor of Applied Economics at the @UniversityLeeds. Part 2 is coming out next week! Listen now at https://t.co/hZvb9lfRVi

[Cambridge Society for Social Economic Development @TheCAMSED]

CAMSED Presents: The Political Economy in the movie Parasite with Prof. Ha-Joon Chang
Please bring your negative Covid proof. And remember to wear a mask throughout the event.
Please sign up via the link below:
https://t.co/3X0sH6VfZI

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2021 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”

[CamEcon @CamEcon]

The UK Economics Applicant Mentoring Programme (AMP) aims to help applicants from underrepresented backgrounds prepare their applications to competitive Economics PhD programmes by matching them with mentors from Cambridge, LSE, Oxford, UCL, and Warwick.
https://t.co/hFDwRPSUeU

[Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism @CSEPEcon]

Lecture from the Archives | Dr Shailaja Fennell (@shailajafennell) and Dr Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel)

How Does Colonialism Shape Today's Development Challenges?

https://t.co/IieScQfwFb

@DivDecEcon @cacrisalves @CdsCambridge @TheCAMSED @rethinkecon

[Carlos Lopes @LopesInsights]

You shouldn't miss this @UNCTAD webinar that I will be pleased to moderate with @DrArkebe @rodrikdani @MeneWamkele @ksjomo and prominent SA scholars. Next Thursday.

[Politics and International Studies Cambridge @Dept_of_POLIS]

Congratulations to Professor Duncan Bell on being elected a Fellow of the British Academy. https://t.co/1Uq430RiQK

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Most people in the global North see the ecological crisis as primarily a question of technology, while social movements across the global South recognize that it is primarily a question of justice.

[Politics and International Studies Cambridge @Dept_of_POLIS]

COVID19 has worsened Italy's economic crisis, pushing Italexit closer—but it has created opportunities for reform of the eurozone. Can reform be achieved? How radical will it have to be?

Join @luciobaccaro and @cjbickerton Wed 9 June at 5:30pm

Register> https://t.co/DPm7sgBz2G

[Carlos Lopes @LopesInsights]

Africa continues to watch the gap between what is said and what is happening when it comes to vaccines solidarity. Next we shall witness a significant repurposing of ODA and development finance towards purchasing expensive vaccines that could have been manufactured in the South.

[Bennett Institute for Public Policy @BennettInst]

Cambridge's economy is overheated with so many tech companies thriving in the science parks & the arrival of Astra Zeneca from the North West. But the city is the most unequal in the UK. If this is '#levellingup', then for whom is it for? – @AtheneDonald
https://t.co/7hEfjDav0V

[CambridgeGender @ bsky.social @CambridgeGender]

Take part in the next Race & Technology Reading Group session on 'Data, marginalisation, algorithmic injustice' at 11.00am GMT, Tuesday 8 June: https://t.co/aTbuj6vnDU

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

Why inequality matters? https://t.co/4P2PmKnXdw

[Bennett Institute for Public Policy @BennettInst]

How might we select the most significant indicators for policymakers to better understand the different levels of well-being across the UK? @MatthewAgarwala, @MarkFabian_Cam & @DeborahHardoon discuss useful ways to value lifestyle & its policy implications https://t.co/b4wMU1ci11

[Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm]

Posted earlier today:

FYI, via the @FT, my thoughts on how/why central banks and markets face tricky pivots to avoid damage from a policy mistake.

https://t.co/PRd6xjCIQE

@ft #markets #centralbanks @federalreserve #fed #investing #investors #stocks #bonds

[Politics and International Studies Cambridge @Dept_of_POLIS]

What implications does our right to peaceful assemblies online have for large platforms and digital service providers when it comes to content moderation?

Discussion tomorrow with @CGHR_Cambridge - Thursday 26 May at 5 pm.

Register here> - https://t.co/CEWLXneS9J

[CambridgeGender @ bsky.social @CambridgeGender]

Monday's panel discussion on 'Gender justice and internationalism, past and present' with Dr Lucy Delap and Catherine Arnold is now available on @CamGeopolitics YouTube channel: https://t.co/8YKAMuzwjZ

[CambridgeGender @ bsky.social @CambridgeGender]

A reminder of tomorrow's ‘Race Talks’ seminar with Mansi Hitesh @Mansi_Hitesh Alumna of the MPhil in Multi-disciplinary Gender Studies at UCCGS on 'Race Talks: Diaspora and Transnationalism' at 12.15pm GMT, register online at: https://t.co/fzvyrqdAH5

[Pascual González @pascuagon]

A new @TheCAMSED podcast episode it out! This time around, Prof. Gary Dymski and I sit down to talk about financing the SDGs, climate change adaptation/mitigation, the COVID-19 global recovery, and more facets of development.

[Cambridge Society for Social Economic Development @TheCAMSED]

CAMSED is delighted to host prominent post-Keynesian economist Jan Kregel for a seminar on the impact of stability on inequality in the design of the international financial system. Professor Kregel is the director of research at the @LevyEcon. Join us tomorrow at 3:30pm UK time.