Verena Wiedemann

Many people are aware of the demographic collapse in countries like Korea and Italy.

But demographic collapse is coming *now* to middle-income countries.

Over the next 20 years, without immigration, the number of workers per elderly will collapse by about *half* in Mexico, Vietnam, Brazil, China.

Stark!

NEW | Ember launched a new open dataset tracking monthly installments of wind and solar power.

Why? Analysts need immediate information on the deployment of the two fastest growing energy sources in history.

View and bookmark the page here: ember-energy.org/lat...

The 2025 #WEFIDEV RFS @cepr.org Conference kicks off with Chhavi Rastogi presenting on investment along the supply chain in #India 🇮🇳

Graphic for CSAE Visiting fellowships scheme with photo of previous fellows and CSAE logo

📣🎉Applications are open for the CSAE Visiting Fellowships Scheme 2026.

The scheme supports African scholars pursuing a career in economics (with a doctorate). Candidates must apply online by 31 May 2025 to be considered.

💻 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel...
📃 www.csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-visitin...

Thanks a lot @priyamanwaring.bsky.social for the summary!

In 2004, it took the world a year to add one gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day.

Fantastic conference! Had very inspirational conversations and discussions at last year's iteration. Paper submissions until April, 30 👇

📢 Call for Papers! 📢
The 6th Women in International Economics Conference will be held at Yale University on Oct 16-17, 2025. Keynote speaker: Penny Goldberg. We invite submissions from junior women in international economics.
📅 Deadline: April 30, 2025
📩 Submit here: forms.gle/ucoE6ZcjqwQ1...

Klimaschutz, wachsende Ungleichheit und fehlende Chancengleichheit.

Can't recommend The Continent's accessible, high quality reporting enough. Weekly issues available through WhatsApp and Signal. @thecontinent.org

The eastern DRC war could reshape the region Even as the conflict escalates, regional powers look to seize an economic opportunity.

Events beyond the eastern DRC war frontline could reshape the region.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

PLEASE RT :)

Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics

Deadline Jan 30 (soon!)

Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford

Thank you!

@raphaelb.bsky.social

Working on private sector development? Trade? Net zero transition? Food security? Come join us! Our IFC Economic and Market Research Department is hiring - we are looking for job market candidates in any of the (sub-)fields listed in the advert.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Estimating local markets from card spending data - ESCoE A new ESCoE discussion paper offers an alternative approach to estimating local markets, using consumer card spending data.

Interested in how we can use consumer card spending data to estimate local retail markets for the UK?

A short blog on the website of the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence about this joint CMA-ONS project:

www.escoe.ac.uk/estimating-l...

Data freely available to all on the CMA website!

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I am hiring a predoctoral fellow to work on projects in urban transportation, spatial and development, using a mix of quantitative and experimental tools.
Please share and/or apply!
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13401

I've made a starter pack for the Economics of Networks! 🕸️ This includes economic and social networks and wide range of methods: applied/econometrics and theory. I'm sure I have missed a lot. Please DM/reply with others, including self-nominations.
go.bsky.app/4yrQJsw

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Our IFC econ research unit is hiring a postdoc working on topics like firms, climate, trade, finance, innovation, networks etc. (more areas listed in job post) to join our fantastic team in Paris for a year: worldbankgroup.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Interested in a position as development economist, outside the US?
Consider applying to Oxford:
https://econjobmarket.org/positions/11116

Position without tutorial teaching.
Both fresh graduates and lateral applications encouraged!
Application deadline: Nov 29

@OxfordEconDept

Bridging the gap: How does Kenya’s domestic firm network link to international supply chains? | Industrial Analytics Platform Novel data provides insights into how Kenya’s domestic firm network links with international markets.

Bridging the gap: How does Kenya’s domestic firm network link to international supply chains? @bkirui.bsky.social, Peter Chacha and myself wrote up a blog post for UNIDO: iap.unido.org/articles/bri...

We have a revamped page on Life Expectancy on
Our World In Data!

• Life expectancy has increased at all ages
• Wide differences in life expectancy remain globally
• Women live longer than men, but this gap isn't constant

+ many new charts! Check it out:
ourworldindata.org/life-expecta...

Down to the wire: The ship fixing our internet Africa’s connection to the World Wide Web depends on cords of hair-thin fibres that rope along the ocean floor. Sometimes they break.

Sometimes those cables break. When they do, there is no quick fix. A decades-old ship, packed with high-tech equipment, must chug along around the continent to make physical repairs. This week, The Continent travels aboard that ship.

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A🧵on Ihsaan Bassier's #JMP. Ihsaan is a post-doc at LSE working on labor & development, and on the market this year. He's doing amazing research on labor market institutions, monopsony, inequality.

His JMP is very timely: collective bargaining's spillover on non-union sector.
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Our econ research unit @ IFC is hiring on the job market. We conduct policy relevant research on anything firms and private sector development related - ranging from finance, climate, and technology adoption to trade and spatial econ. Happy to answer any questions.
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Last weekend, more than 130 development economists presented new research about more than 40 countries on myriad topics. Here’s a micro-summary of every study presented at the North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference. www.cgdev.org/blog/whats-l... by Almedina Music and me