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Bringing people and ideas together to tackle difficult development challenges.
📌 We are proud to announce Dr Yannis Dafermos as the new Head of the Department of Economics at @soasuni.bsky.social ‼️
🌍 In challenging times, strong leadership is more important than ever to guide education and research, and to inspire the next generation of #SOAS economists.
🎥 New on the @soasuni.bsky.social #DLD YouTube Channel!
♻️ High-Value Agriculture for Structural Transformation 🚜
🎤 Prof. Chris Cramer with Salma Seetaroo (Cashew Coast) and Piero Ghezzi (HacePeru) discussing structural economic transformation ♻️
👉 full video 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QDk...
🚀 ⚠️ Last day to apply for the next @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Future Leaders Programme co-hosted with krinstitute.org
💡 New Development Strategies for ASEAN in a “New” World 🌎
📅 Date: 23–27 November 2025
📍 Kuala Lumpur
📌 Deadline: 28 September 2025
🔗 info and application:
tinyurl.com/hwhuwz3y
🚀 ⚠️ Last days to apply for the next @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Future Leaders Programme co-hosted with krinstitute.org
💡 New Development Strategies for ASEAN in a “New” World 🌎
📅 Date: 23–27 November 2025
📍 Kuala Lumpur
📌 Deadline: 26 September 2025
🔗 info and application:
tinyurl.com/hwhuwz3y
📌 Our @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics Professor Ha-Joon Chang gave this year's Alice Amsden Lecture at APORDE Alumni Network last week outside Johannesburg - on a 'New New International Order in a 'New World' 🌍
🔗 You can listen to it here 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvvv...
🚀 Yesterday we kicked off Day 1 of @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Future Leaders Programme 10:
🌱✨ High-Value Agriculture as a Path to Structural Transformation – Hopes, Fears, Realities
💡 A great start to four days of dialogue on how agriculture can drive structural transformation! 🌍📊
🚀 @soasuni.bsky.social DLD welcomes applications for the next Future Leaders Programme co-hosted with krinstitute.org
💡 New Development Strategies for ASEAN in a “New” World 🌎
📅 Date: 23–27 November 2025
📍 Kuala Lumpur
📌 Deadline: 26 September 2025
🔗 info and application ⬇️
tinyurl.com/hwhuwz3y
🎤 🌍 Our @soasuni.bsky.social #DLD Co-Director Prof. Ha-Joon Chang was interviewed by CNBC.com on challenging the traditions around economics and free market policy.♻️
🎥 bit.ly/4fPu4tQ
🚀 @soasuni.bsky.social DLD is delighted to announce the next Future Leaders Programme co-hosted with krinstitute.org
💡 New Development Strategies for ASEAN in a “New” World 🌎
📅 Date: 23–27 November 2025
📍 Kuala Lumpur
📌 Deadline: 26 September 2025
🔗 info and application:
tinyurl.com/hwhuwz3y
📌 Today on @financialtimes.com our @soasuni.bsky.social #DLD Director Ha-Joon Chang on:
📊 Economics teaching has become the Aeroflot of ideas 💡
⚠️ The discipline is failing students by ignoring the biggest social, political and ecological challenges 🌍
🔗 www.ft.com/content/9aab...
🚀 Last day to apply for @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Future Leaders Programme!
💡High-Value Agriculture as a Path to Structural Transformation – hopes, fears, realities🌎
📅 Date: 15 – 18 September 2025
📍 London
📌 Deadline: 18 July 2025
🔗apply here⬇️
tinyurl.com/yc3az3c8
🚀 Last 2 days to apply for the next @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Future Leaders Programme !!!⚠️
💡High-Value Agriculture as a Path to Structural Transformation – hopes, fears, realities🌎
📅 Date: 15 – 18 September 2025
📍 London
📌 Deadline: 18 July 2025
🔗apply here⬇️
tinyurl.com/yc3az3c8
🚀 @soasuni.bsky.social DLD welcomes applications for the upcoming Future Leaders Programme:
💡High-Value Agriculture as a Path to Structural Transformation – hopes, fears, realities🌎
📅 Date: 15 – 18 September 2025
📍 London
📌 Deadline: 18 July 2025
🔗apply here⬇️
tinyurl.com/yc3az3c8
🚨⚠️ WE ARE HIRING!!! ⚠️🚨
🌍 @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Institute is looking for a Research and Communications Fellow📌
✨Join our vibrant academic community at SOAS! 🌏
🔗Apply here ⬇️
vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/729237
📌 Concluding panel – How to expand policy space and how to use it 🌟📊
🎤 With Ha-Joon Chang, Rob Davies, Yemi Dipeolu, Duncan Green 💬🌍
🚀 Upcoming panel: Issues in Policy Space – Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), Dispute Settlements and Procurement ⚖️📚
🌍 with Rob Davies, Rachel Thrasher, Isabel Estevez 💬📊
🚀 Kicking off Day 3 of @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Future Leaders Programme 9: 🌍✨
🎤 First panel “Issues in Policy Space – Tariffs, Subsidies, and FDI regulations (TRIMS)” 🏭🏦
with Ha-Joon Chang, Muhammad Irfan, Yemi Dipeolu 💬📊
🚀 From day 2 of @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Future Leaders Programme 9: 🌍✨
🎤 Third panel “Geopolitical Re-alignments and Policy Space” 🗺️♻️
with Richard Kozul-Wright, José Miguel Ahumada, Jostein Hauge, Rob Davies 💬📊
🚀 From day 2 of @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Future Leaders Programme 9: 🌍✨
🎤 Second panel “Ecological Crisis and Policy Space” ♻️
with Antonio Andreoni, Jostein Hauge (University of Cambridge), Isabel Estevez (Roosevelt Institute) 💬📊
🚀 From day 2 of @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Future Leaders Programme 9: 🌍✨
🎤 First panel “Negotiating Policy Space – Practitioners’ views”
with Yemi Dipeolu, Muhammad Irfan (trade negotiator, Pakistan), Duncan Green (LSE; formerly Oxfam), Liz May (DLD) 💬🌟📊
🚀 Upcoming panel: The Emerging Industrial Policy Landscape and Policy Space 🏭♻️
🌍 with Ha-Joon Chang, Antonio Andreoni (CSST, @soasuni.bsky.social), Rachel Thrasher (Boston University), José Miguel Ahumada (University of Chile; former deputy foreign minister for trade negotiations, Chile)
🚀 Upcoming panel: “The Current Policy Space for Industrial Policy (WTO, EPA, FTAs, BITs, AfCFTA)” 💬📊
🌍 with Rob Davies (former Minister of Trade and Industry, South Africa), Richard Kozul-Wright, Yemi Dipeolu (former economic advisor to the President, Nigeria), Liz May (DLD)
🚀 Let’s continue with “History of policy space – the last 500 years” 💬📊
🌍 Featuring @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Director Professor Ha-Joon Chang & Professor Richard Kozul-Wright (Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation, SOAS; former chief economist, UNCTAD)
🚀 Kicking off the welcome panel of @soasuni.bsky.social DLD Future Leaders Programme 9:
🌍✨ "Policy space for developing countries in the new industrial policy landscape"💬🌟📊
🚀 @soasuni.bsky.social DLD is delighted to announce the next Future Leaders Programme:
💡 High-Value Agriculture as a Path to Structural Transformation – hopes, fears, realities 🌎
📅 Date: 15 – 18 September 2025
📍 London
📌 Deadline: 18 July 2025
🔗 application ⬇️
tinyurl.com/yc3az3c8
🔊 Join us at #London Climate Action Week!
🌍 Reversing the vicious cycle of debt, underdevelopment and environmental change
📅 25 June 2025 | 3:00-4:30 PM
📍 SALT, @soasuni.bsky.social
📌get your tickets 🎫 tinyurl.com/4ychyvc5
🔊 Join us at #London Climate Action Week! @london_climate @CSF_SOAS @FixedInstitute
🌍 Scaling climate resilience through debt markets
📅 24 June 2025 | 5:00-7:00 PM
📍 Senate House Alumni Lecture Theatre (SALT), @SOAS_DLD
📌get your tickets 🎫 tinyurl.com/ye223emx
🔊 Join us TODAY at #London Climate Action Week!
🌍 Strengthening the Public Development Banking Ecosystem to Drive Climate Action
📅 23 June 2025
📍 SALT, @soasuni.bsky.social
📌get your tickets 🎫 tinyurl.com/9u76p6pu
🌍 A Green and Just Planet: G20 to COP30 Visions, with COP30 President
📅 23 June 2025
📍 @soasuni.bsky.social
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/5ba5wv47
👉 info event: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
🚀 @soasuni.bsky.social DLD is delighted to announce the next Future Leaders Programme:
💡 High-Value Agriculture as a Path to Structural Transformation – hopes, fears, realities 🌎
📅 Date: 15 – 18 September 2025
📍 London
📌 Deadline: 18 July 2025
🔗 Further info and application:
tinyurl.com/yc3az3c8
