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[EADI @EADI]

🔎BLog: Jiayi Wang and Ragdad C. Miranti (@GlobalDevInst) explore which types of energy subsidies make sense from ecological as well as social perspectives:

📝 "Governments should not jump directly from cheap energy for everyone to no support at all"
https://t.co/f9YRvyMHcu

[EADI @EADI]

🎥 Missed our latest #VirtualDialogues webinar?

Explore how societies navigate uncertainty and overlapping crises, and what this means for global governance and international cooperation.

🎬 Watch the recording: https://t.co/EOhhiCemMg

#EADI #GlobalCooperation

[Development Studies Association @devcomms]

Should average indicators alone define development status?

Writing for @EADI’s blog, Albertino Francisco argues that climate risks, disaster exposure, and economic shocks must be factored into decisions on international support:
https://t.co/ZSestl2sZw

[Sonwa Denis Jean @SonwaDenis]

From Ideas to Impact: The Missing Links in Financing for Development

understanding how changing ideas, political incentives & institutional arrangements interact to determine where finance goes, how it is used& what impact it ultimately has.
https://t.co/rea0BF9krr via @EADI

[SOAS Development Studies @SOASDevelopment]

Join us for the 2026 Keynote Lecture of the seminar series Histories of Capitalism and Race, delivered by Professor Noura Erakat (@4noura), @RutgersU.

In her lecture, "Exit, Exception, and the Future of Sovereignty", Noura will explore questions of sovereignty, power, and the political possibilities of the present and future.

📍 KLT, @SOAS
📅 16 November 2026, at 5pm
Register here: https://t.co/1iA0wxXIhf

@WRCHR_SOAS @Tilley101 @SOASDevelopment @SOASHistory @SarahElKazaz @mattinbiglari @samiakhatun

[SOAS Development Studies @SOASDevelopment]

📢 Upcoming Seminar : The Political Economy of Central Asia: Social Reproduction and Ecology

How are everyday lives and livelihoods sustained and transformed across Central Asia?

Join us for a seminar exploring the changing relationships between labour, gender, care, and access to resources, and how these shape social reproduction and ecological relations across the region.
Featuring speakers Binazir Yusupova and Madina G.

The event is co-hosted by @SOASDevelopment, @SOASpolitics (Political Economy Cluster), and the @SOAS Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus.

📅 Date: 12 November 2026
🕛 Time: 12pm

🔗 Join the seminar: via Microsoft Teams link: https://t.co/RXghYt0GxA

We warmly invite researchers, students, and everyone interested in the political economy of Central Asia to join us for this discussion.
@floretta_voice

[EADI @EADI]

🔎In our latest blog post, @zohourgharaibeh discusses how development projects could better meet the real needs of people:

"The difficulty arises when the requirements of a project proposal begin to determine which needs can be recognised and addressed"
https://t.co/oFSIJdgCA5

[EADI @EADI]

🚨 Don't miss your chance to join the conversation!

How can global cooperation navigate an increasingly uncertain and fragmented world?

📅 11 November | 16:00 CET 💻 Online

🔗 Register now: https://t.co/Ir6W6Q7N8p

#EADI #GlobalCooperation

[EADI @EADI]

📢 Save the date:

Global Cooperation in Times of Crisis: Navigating an Epoch of Crisis (3)

📅 11 November 2026
⏰ 16:00 CET
💻 Online

🎙️Speakers:
@ptaylor_ottawa (@IDS_UK), @SylvainMae (@GVAGrad), @ricardosefes (@uohiggins) et al.

🔗Register https://t.co/yipDZwZP7B

[EADI @EADI]

🎥 How can cultural heritage and better building design support sustainable cities?

Explore insights from our latest #VirtualDialogues session on localizing the SDGs across Jordan and Tunisia.

🎬 Watch the recording: https://t.co/L2l0oFZEBW

#EADI #GlobalDevelopment

[EADI @EADI]

📢 Explore the EJDR Early Career Researcher Initiative and the support available to early-career authors!

📅 2 Dec | ⏰ 16:00 CET | 💻 Online

🎙️ Talia Vela-Eiden · Tewodaj Mogues · Keetie Roelen

🔗 Register: https://t.co/DmFZIV5yxX

#EADI #EJDR #EarlyCareerResearchers

[EADI @EADI]

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🔎 Latest reads and opportunities from us
🔎 Publication picks, calls, vacancies, opinion and
🎙️ podcasts from our member community
🔎 News from international partners
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[REEDES @infoREEDES]

🔝¡Abierta la IX edición del Premio al Mejor TFM!
Puede optar cualquier persona estudiante que haya estado matriculada en un máster de una entidad socia de REEDES, y que haya defendido con éxito su TFM (enmarcado en el campo de los Estudios del Desarrollo) en el curso 2025/2026.

[EADI @EADI]

🌍 Want to be part of EADI?

Join our Development Studies community through webinars, blogs, working groups, events and conferences. Let’s exchange ideas and shape the future of Development Studies together!

🔗https://t.co/BPvVWeSiXV

#EADI #DevelopmentStudies #GlobalDevelopment

[EADI @EADI]

⏰ Just 2 days to go!

Join EADI's next Virtual Dialogue: “Living Heritage: Safeguarding the Past, Designing the Future”.

📅 5 November | 15:00 CET
💻 Online | English

🔗 Register: https://t.co/tRNPoYXd9y

#EADIVirtualDialogues #SDGLocalization

[EADI @EADI]

📌 Have you registered yet?

Join EADI's Virtual Dialogue: “Living Heritage: Safeguarding the Past, Designing the Future”.

📅 5 Nov | ⏰ 15:00 CET | 💻 Online

🔗 Register: https://t.co/tRNPoYXd9y

#EADI #SDGs #CulturalHeritage

[EADI @EADI]

🔎In our latest blog post, @zohourgharaibeh discusses how development projects could better meet the real needs of people:

"The difficulty arises when the requirements of a project proposal begin to determine which needs can be recognised and addressed"
https://t.co/oFSIJdgCA5

[Development Studies Association @devcomms]

Why does the arithmetic we use to measure development matter so much for small states?

For @EADI’s blog, Albertino Francisco shows how statistical averages mask vulnerability, using São Tomé & Príncipe’s LDC graduation as a case in point:
https://t.co/Kap9jmKXaj

[EADI @EADI]

🌍 How can societies navigate uncertainty, fragmentation and overlapping crises?

Explore this question and more at EADI's next Virtual Dialogue, “Navigating an Epoch of Crisis.”

📅 11 Nov 2026 | 16:00 CET | Online
🔗 Register: https://t.co/Ir6W6Q8kXX

#EADI #GlobalCooperation

[EADI @EADI]

📢 Save the date:

Global Cooperation in Times of Crisis: Navigating an Epoch of Crisis (3)

📅 11 November 2026
⏰ 16:00 CET
💻 Online

🎙️Speakers:
@ptaylor_ottawa (@IDS_UK), @SylvainMae (@GVAGrad), @ricardosefes (@uohiggins) et al.

🔗Register https://t.co/yipDZwZP7B

[EADI @EADI]

📅Mark your calendars for The Spread and Reverberation of Crisis Moods (4)!
🔁Series: Global Cooperation in Times of Crisis: Grasping the Changing Mood of the World

📅3 December 2026 ⏰16:00 CET 💻Online
https://t.co/gf1Ol60fiQ

🎙️@bartoszewicz_mg @St_Klingebiel & Reider Staupe

[EADI @EADI]

📊 What are the metrics that define a Least Developed Country ? What is measured and how? How are the different categories weighted?

🔎 Our latest blog post argues on the example of São Tomé and Príncipe that averages don't capture what really matters.
https://t.co/bsuYv318x3

[African Cities Research Consortium @AfricanCities_]

NEW | Building a national framework for informal settlements upgrading in Malawi

Malawi is one of the world’s fastest urbanising countries, with more than 70% of its urban population living in informal settlements.