Development blossoming

Resources, research, & consulting in Development sector. Curating opportunities 🥳

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[Development blossoming @devblossoming]

Hi.
This is @MsChimezie writing. As I earlier tweeted, there are a number of development-focused Stiftungs and orgs in Germany that are interested in funding ur studies. I researched some of them and I hope you advance the research too. Here they are: 1/

[J-PAL @JPAL]

AI is already reshaping education, health systems, governments, and labor markets.

The question is no longer whether it can be used for social good, but how.

In J-PAL's AI for Social Good series, we explore what we're learning about using AI to improve lives, and the evidence needed to shape its impact.

https://t.co/4gf3bVcODE

[@Mschimezie on Bluesky @MsChimezie]

One of my articles was cited in a 2026 textbook, “Public Debt and Economic resilience in Africa”, published by Springer Nature.

[@Mschimezie on Bluesky @MsChimezie]

You can read our latest journal article on Extended family system and Welfare care in post-COVID Nigeria: a case study of Warri.

We conducted a household survey. Interesting insights

https://t.co/onYsxYuAqQ (open access)

[@Mschimezie on Bluesky @MsChimezie]

Did I tell you guys?

Two of my abstracts have been accepted. A book chapter in an upcoming edited book by Taylor and Francis, and the second is a journal article on Springer Nature.

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

A large temporary cash incentive rapidly enrolled millions of informal workers into Thailand's voluntary social insurance programme, demonstrating that enrolment barriers can be overcome when incentives are strong enough. https://t.co/ZfUWSejOKF

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

Policies that allocate scarce resources often embed hidden values. Researchers develop a method to recover the value judgments implicit in allocation rules and apply it to Mexico’s flagship cash transfer programme, PROGRESA.

[Development blossoming @devblossoming]

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[Development blossoming @devblossoming]

PhD opportunity alert! Max Planck PhD opportunity in social sciences.
Deadline: 15 Feb 2026. Apply now! #developmentblossoming

https://t.co/7EozxCAnSx

[Development blossoming @devblossoming]

Conference paper alert: Submit your paper for the 2026
Jobs and Development Conference, holding in Hong Kong.

Deadline: 20 March 2026

https://t.co/fsjkv6xyWT

[LSE Inequalities @LSEInequalities]

🚨 Applications now open for the Opportunity Mobility and Inherited Inequalities visiting PhD grant!

This supports research students from other universities to spend one academic term at the International Inequalities Institute.

Apply by 30 January ⬇️
https://t.co/5t6kr4RuBu

[Kris Cao @kroscoo]

I'm recruiting at Cohere for someone to work on pretraining model evaluations! If you're interested in really understanding how to evaluate base models, please apply at the following link (and DM me as well so I know to look for your application).

https://t.co/waggFaXYlr

[CRASSH, Cambridge @CRASSHlive]

CRASSH is inviting scholars from the Global South to apply for funded Visiting Fellowships in Cambridge in Spring 2027

The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives'

⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026
https://t.co/JWA85sf5yj

[Arian Hosseini @ ICML 🇰🇷 @arianTBD]

Our team at GDM is hiring a Student Researcher (SR) next year 🧠

If you’re a PhD student working on LLMs please apply. I’d love to hear from you.

Please fill out this form: https://t.co/BVBVb5kXhA

[Imade. @ImadeIyamu]

Imperial College London's Global Development Fellowship - for PhD study for students from Low & Middle Income Countries

Scholarship includes:

- A monthly stipend of £1900
- Return economy class travel
- Payment for the standard visa application
- Financial support for travel to the visa application centres

Deadline: November 28 https://t.co/hIqgwOkm8r

[Ken Opalo @kopalo]

Transformative national development (as opposed to nano-developmentalist nibbling at the margins) is the only way out of this. The sooner everyone is on the same page the better.

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

📈 Where have export take-offs transformed economies?

🚀 Check out the Export Boom Atlas from @GrowthTeams - an interactive map showing how countries from Vietnam to Morocco to Costa Rica achieved rapid sector-level growth that created jobs & prosperity: https://t.co/gOyFyQrn3J

[Youth for Tax Justice Network @Youth_TJN]

As we closed the week at #INC3, Day 5 wrapped up with big energy🙌🏽

Here are the Key Highlights:
👉🏽Article 11 – Capacity Building: Countries explored tailored support to strengthen tax administrations with the tools, skills, and infrastructure needed for their unique priorities.

👉🏽Discussions slso highlighted opportunities and challenges in digitalizing tax systems for a globalized economy.

👉🏽Reflections were made on how to ensure long-term, sustainable support for capacity-building efforts.

Watch out for week 2! 🥳

Read more here ➡️: https://t.co/COnRH3jCg1

📸| All Photos by IISD/ENB | Danny Skilton (Cc. @IISD_ENB 👌🏾)

[Cevat Giray Aksoy @cevatgirayaksoy]

📢Call for papers!

We are organising 7th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration on 28-29 May 2026, in Rome!

Keynotes: Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University) and Vicky Fouka (Stanford University).

Submit your papers before January 23, 2026: https://t.co/CRBWfPTo4p

[EAYE @EAYEconomists]

📢 Call for papers!

The EAYE Annual Meeting welcomes submissions of full papers or extended abstracts (4-8K characters) in all fields of economics

👉 18–20 May '26, University of the Basque Country

⏲️ Submission deadline extended to 28 December 2025!

[Oliver Hanney @oliverhanney]

🆕 AI & development economics.

I have added a bunch of new resources to this reading list on @vox_dev: https://t.co/ePI6ggSFmw

While we are a long way from good answers to the important questions on AI's economic impacts, there is a lot of interesting reading on this topic ⤵️