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Why We Need Empathy to Tackle Poverty By Keetie Roelen“You need a new vacuum cleaner? Can you prove that your current one is really broken?” This was the response Hanny received from the welfare office in the Dutch city of Tilburg when…

"Instead of offering supportive and compassionate pathways towards improved livelihoods, (these policies) have become a means for policing and punishing the poor

🔎 Read our related blog post by @keetieroelen.bsky.social (@oucsgd.bsky.social) here: www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492

Unravelling the Geographies of the Green Transition: Understanding the Finance-Extraction-Transitions Nexus By Tobias Franz and Angus McNelly The transition from fossil fuels to green energy in the 21st century – driven by the urgent need to address anthropogenic climate change – represents a monumental …

"By examining the intertwined relationships between finance, extraction, and transitions, researchers can gain insights into the power dynamics, contradictions, and alternatives shaping the future of energy production and consumption"

✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1874

Picture of a computer screen with a presentation slide on the VAT gap in South Africa as the title. On the right side of the screen, picture of Mamiky Leolo as a speaker.

A valueable exchange this week at a virtual seminar on VAT & CIT gap research for 🇿🇦. Researchers & policymakers engaged on compliance risks & how tax gap insights can inform audits, monitoring & analytical approaches. Co-organised by the South African Revenue Service & #SATIED

go.unu.edu/TPpGl

Join us for this online panel on how major providers are implementing cuts to their #ForeignAid spending.

Together with @cgdev.org on 11 February.
Register here: link.cgdev.org/l/683263/202...

@ianmitchell1.bsky.social @heinerjanus.bsky.social
@rglenner.bsky.social

🌍 UNRISD at #CSocD64 | On 4 Feb 2026, we convened “Beyond Normative Commitments: Care & Support Systems in LAC” with partners, incl. Gov of Chile, IDRC, GRADE, CLACSO, ELA, and the Global Alliance for Care.
📹: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqNo...

Why We Need Empathy to Tackle Poverty By Keetie Roelen“You need a new vacuum cleaner? Can you prove that your current one is really broken?” This was the response Hanny received from the welfare office in the Dutch city of Tilburg when…

"Across the world, many welfare and anti-poverty policies are premised on distrust and suspicion. Instead of offering supportive and compassionate pathways towards improved lives and livelihoods, they have become a means for policing and punishing the poor."
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492

YouTube video by Fondation FERDI Publication of tax expenditure reports: operational scope and future outlook

Replay | MRIP webinar on tax expenditure reports.
Thanks to the experts who shared their experiences in publishing tax expenditure reports, helping to deepen understanding of the practical challenges involved in implementation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2SH...

COP30 and Just Transition in the South: Who Will Pay the Social Price? By Jiayi Wang and Mengjie Xu When COP30 ended in the Amazonian city of Belém, much of the global media focus stayed locked on a familiar question: would the final agreement clearly call for the “ph…

This leaves a difficult question unanswered by COP30: can South–South cooperation truly be “just” if it repeats old patterns of unequal value sharing?
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2499

Religion and the Dynamics of Farmer–Pastoralist Conflict in Nigeria Religion is crucial to understanding the violent clashes occurring between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers over land and water in Nigeria. Neglecting this dimension prevents a holistic unde...

🌍 This #GIGAFocus provides crucial insights into one of #Africa’s deadliest conflicts. While #farmer–pastoralist violence in #Nigeria is often framed as a climate‑driven resource struggle, this study shows that religious identity shapes how communities perceive, experience, and mitigate conflict.

Our heartfelt congratulations!

Washington has lost its way Arrogance characterises the relationship between the US and China, in their self-conviction of supremacy.

Just back from Washington, Miguel Otero reflects on MAGA stances regarding China’s place in the global trading order and their ideas on how to reshape it.
✍️ @miotei.bsky.social
www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/commentar...

@ids.ac.uk @idos-research.bsky.social @zefbonn.bsky.social @deval-institute.bsky.social @globaldevinst.bsky.social @cerdi.bsky.social @fondationferdi.bsky.social @reedes.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social @oefse.at @globalresearch.scnat.ch

Transformative Skills: Reframing Competence Development in Higher Education. Workshop (Online) 10 June 2026, 14:00 CET Application deadline: 15 March 2026. oint Workshop with the International Centre for Sustainable Development (IZNE) at Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg - University of Applied Sciences

📣 Join us and IZNE (@h-brs.bsky.social)
for an online workshop on transformative skills!

⏰ Apply by 15 March!

www.eadi.org/news-2/trans...

#MakingTaxDataWork in Uganda!

Established in 2022, the Uganda Revenue Authority secure data lab was the second of its kind on the continent. The lab has informed policy on tax system design ⚖️, revenue planning 📈, and compliance 🧾

👉 go.unu.edu/LrlV3

Decolonial Journey: #RhodesMustFall and ‘Decolonising Development Studies’ in Ghana and Nigeria By Luqman Muraina / part of our “Share your Decolonising Story” project I completed my B.Sc. Sociology in Nigeria with little or no knowledge about alternative epistemologies, coloniality, and poli…

"I consider my story as reflecting a scholarly transition from an empirical, positivist and Eurocentric framework to an advocacy for alternative knowledges, pluriversality, and decoloniality"

Experiences from Nigeria and Ghana, from our decoloinising stories:

www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2480

📆 The Abidjan-Lagos corridor connects one of the world's most rapidly urbanising regions. With demand for staple foods like cassava rising in turn, but trade significantly underdeveloped, the corridor is the key to food security in the region.

Read about the project 👉 bit.ly/4rDs38T

#Sand – the most used resource after water! Over a billion people live in coastal areas where sand acts as a natural barrier, connecting land & sea. 🌿

Curious about its role in #CoastalAdaptation? Check out the new 'Meet Our PhDs' episode w/ @dennis228.bsky.social.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdmw...

An upcoming online workshop invites paper submissions that advance empirical, theoretical, and policy‑relevant research on the developmental implications of servicisation in the Global South.

'Services and the Global South: Structural Transformation, Inequality and Development': bit.ly/3LU1LQv

𝗡𝗩𝗔𝗦 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲. 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 💦 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮
The Netherlands Association of African Studies (NVAS) & IHE Delft Institute for Water Education will organise a conference in Delft on 11 and 12 September. The organisers invite contributions! 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝟮𝟬 𝗙𝗲𝗯

COP30 and Just Transition in the South: Who Will Pay the Social Price? By Jiayi Wang and Mengjie Xu When COP30 ended in the Amazonian city of Belém, much of the global media focus stayed locked on a familiar question: would the final agreement clearly call for the “ph…

This leaves a difficult question unanswered by COP30: can South–South cooperation truly be “just” if it repeats old patterns of unequal value sharing? It speaks the language of solidarity, yet the green economy is starting to look like a new version of globalisation
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2499

The Challenges of Decolonising Sustainability and the Environment in Development Studies By Lyla Mehta The colonial roots of sustainability  Since the Brundtland Commission advanced the concept of sustainable development in 1987, a lively strand in Development Studies (DS) has eng…

"The social consequences of European colonial policies and interventions in forestry, agriculture and mining in the so-called ‘tropics’ were often devastating, accompanied by slavery, racialised discrimination, violence and the grabbing of land and livelihoods."
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www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2402

𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘇𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗶𝗻-𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲.

In a new WIDERAngle blog, our Director Designate Patricia Justino, argues that removing a leader while leaving coercive institutions intact does not guarantee stability and may deepen repression.

👉 go.unu.edu/yC4dI

How Social Science Fiction Could Transform Development Research: Extending our Methodological Horizons By Laura Camfield In an era of increasing complexity and uncertainty, conventional methodological approaches to pressing development concerns such as extreme income inequality often fall short. In …

Social Science Fiction "helps us imagine alternative social orders and institutional change, proving particularly useful for hypothesis generation"

✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2387

✨ What does inclusive research really look like in practice?
✨ New @oucsgd.bsky.social paper on (imperfectly) inclusive ways of knowing in international education & development 📜
✨ To be discussed at #DSA2026
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University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated - LSE Impact Despite being systematically underestimated university presses are a widespread and structurally significant part of the journal publishing landscape.

💥New | University journal publishers – global, messy and underestimated

✍️ Maryna Nazarovets @mikaellaakso.bsky.social & @zehrataskin.bsky.social

#AcademicPublishing #UniversityPresses #AcademicSky

Finding Hope amidst the Ruins – Building a new Narrative for Development Cooperation By Peter Taylor The re-election of President Trump in January 2025 led to an immediate freeze on all international development funding from USAID, the largest international aid donor. As highlighte…

“In a context of geopolitical turbulence, it is critical to develop a compelling narrative for increased global development cooperation”

✍️ From our blog

www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2391

COP30 and Just Transition in the South: Who Will Pay the Social Price? By Jiayi Wang and Mengjie Xu When COP30 ended in the Amazonian city of Belém, much of the global media focus stayed locked on a familiar question: would the final agreement clearly call for the “ph…

A new green hierarchy is forming. China leads in high-value manufacturing (...); Southeast Asia is becoming a major centre for processing and assembly; Africa is still largely supplying (...), often under conditions that resemble older resource-extracting models.
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2499

🌏 What is the youth vision for 2030?
UNRISD asked @gvagrad.bsky.social students to reimagine social development's future. Meet our #YouthVoices: 
🌟Brian Kelly Nyaga (Climate Action)
🌟Louise Alberti (Emotions as political tools)
🌟Shilpa Ann Thomas (Global South lens)
🔗https://ow.ly/2h6g50Y9aAl

📸 Representatives for the EU, OECD, partner countries and civil society convened in our Brussels office for frank discussions on the Global Gateway, organised under the @ettg.bsky.social with @concord-europe.bsky.social

Our work on the Global Gateway 👉 bit.ly/4rizjqZ

Why We Need Empathy to Tackle Poverty By Keetie Roelen“You need a new vacuum cleaner? Can you prove that your current one is really broken?” This was the response Hanny received from the welfare office in the Dutch city of Tilburg when…

"Instead of offering supportive and compassionate pathways towards improved livelihoods, (these policies) have become a means for policing and punishing the poor

🔎 Read our related blog post by @keetieroelen.bsky.social (@oucsgd.bsky.social) here: www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492