Stefan Dercon

Aspiring Economists from Africa:

Graduate scholarships at Oxford

Webinar to explain all - how to apply, what makes strong application, necessary steps to take...

see also csae.ox.ac.uk/scholarships

An aspiring scholarly economist from Africa? We have scholarships to study economics at graduate level at Oxford. See below!!!

CSAE Conference Funding CSAE Conference 2026 Funding Information

Are you an African economist living in Africa?

One week left to submit your paper for funding application for the academic CSAE Conference 2026 Oxford UK, and the CSAE Workshop 2025, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Apply by deadline of 03 August 2025 to be considered.
www.csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-confere...

Join CSAE Director Stefan Dercon for a webinar on CSAE scholarships available to African nationals applying to study on the MPhil and DPhil in Economics programmes at the Dept of Economics, University of Oxford in 2026.
🗓️ Mon 28 July, 2 pm WAT, 4 pm EAT
shorturl.at/zVEfb

CSAE Conference 2026 CSAE Conference 2026: Economic Development in Africa

📣Call for papers OPEN for #OxCSAE2026

The CSAE Conference brings together researchers from across the development economics community to discuss Africa.

🎂A special event for us as we celebrate the CSAE's 40th birthday in 2026!

Deadline: 14 Sept (funding 03 Aug)
www.csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-confere...

Some thoughts on how to have more impact from research.

(And an afterthought: I need a new microphone.)

Donate to Help Derrick Go to Paris school of Economics, organised by Clare Nakimpi My name is Derrick Ahabyona and I am deeply honored to have been accepted i… Clare Nakimpi needs your support for Help Derrick Go to Paris school of Economics

I would rarely do this, but I happen to know Derrick, and even wrote in his support for his applications. So, if you so inclined, this humble, ambitious, widely read, smart young budding African economist will work extremely hard not to disappoint.

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Donate to Help Derrick Go to Paris school of Economics, organised by Clare Nakimpi My name is Derrick Ahabyona and I am deeply honored to have been accepted i… Clare Nakimpi needs your support for Help Derrick Go to Paris school of Economics

I would rarely do this, but I happen to know Derrick, and even wrote in his support for his applications. So, if you so inclined, this humble, ambitious, widely read, smart young budding African economist will work extremely hard not to disappoint.

shorturl.at/RgOVn

Nompumelelo Nyathi-Mohohlwane (Researcher at the National Department of Basic Education in South Africa) was a CSAE Visiting Fellow in 2025. We talked to Nom... CSAE Visiting Fellows 2025 - Nompumelelo Nyathi-Mohohlwane

How can the CSAE Visiting Fellowship scheme help you with your research?

We asked Nompumelelo Mohohlwane, Researcher at the Department for Basic Education in South Africa, to tell us about how her time as a CSAE Fellow helped with her work for the Ministry.

Watch👇

just apply... plenty of info on the web.

YouTube video by Centre for the Study of African Economies CSAE Visiting Fellows 2025 - Bezawit Bahru

📣4 days left to apply to be a CSAE Visiting Fellow in 2026!

Not sure if you want to apply? Listen to interviews with former fellows to hear about their experiences.

Bezawit Bahru (Postdoctoral Researcher @unihohenheim.bsky.social) talks about her time at the CSAE.👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5E4...

just apply. more info including Q&A podcast on it on the web.

Worth connecting if you want to join us in Oxford as CSAE Visiting Fellow!

¿Por qué hay países que prosperan mientras otros quedan atrapados en caminos que no conducen al desarrollo?: 'Apostar por el desarrollo. Por qué unos países ganan y otros pierden', de Stefan Dercon @gamblingondev.bsky.social. #Novedad buff.ly/Ex0Clky

Important insight from Stefan Dercon (@gamblingondev.bsky.social): "design interventions that maximise the policy makers’ objective function given their constraints". Economics meets Political Science.

¿Por qué hay países que prosperan mientras otros quedan atrapados en caminos que no conducen al desarrollo?: 'Apostar por el desarrollo. Por qué unos países ganan y otros pierden', de Stefan Dercon @gamblingondev.bsky.social. #Novedad #PróximamenteEnTuLibrería buff.ly/Ex0Clky

Best buys meet political realities: The political economy of education research Why do policymakers choose education reforms that aren’t supported by evidence? And how can researchers work with them to implement interventions with better outcomes? These are thorny questions often...

🆕 Best buys meet political realities: The political economy of education research

Stefan Dercon (@gamblingondev.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @oxfordcsae.bsky.social) explores why policymakers choose education reforms that aren’t supported by evidence: voxdev.org/topic/educat...

Excited to announce

the Spanish translation of Gambling on Development

Apostar por el desarrollo

out with Catarata 28 April 2025

for example see:

librerialorcacuenca.com/es/libro/apo...

¿Por qué hay países prosperan mientras otros quedan atrapados en caminos que no conducen al desarrollo?: 'Apostar por el desarrollo. Por qué unos países ganan y otros pierden', de Stefan Dercon @gamblingondev.bsky.social. #Novedad #PróximamenteEnTuLibrería buff.ly/Ex0Clky

¿Por qué hay países prosperan mientras otros quedan atrapados en caminos que no conducen al desarrollo?: 'Apostar por el desarrollo. Por qué unos países ganan y otros pierden', de Stefan Dercon @gamblingondev.bsky.social. #Novedad #PróximamenteEnTuLibrería buff.ly/Ex0Clky

Excellent book, good to have it in Spanish.

Excited to announce

the Spanish translation of Gambling on Development

Apostar por el desarrollo

out with Catarata 28 April 2025

for example see:

librerialorcacuenca.com/es/libro/apo...

CSAE Director Stefan Dercon talks to James Robinson (Nobel Prize winner 2024) about the topic of his keynote speech at the CSAE Conference 2025, 'Wealth in P... James Robinson and Stefan Dercon in Conversation

James Robinson (Nobel Prize winner 2024) & Stefan Dercon (CSAE Director) in conversation at the CSAE Conference about 'Wealth in People'.

@blavatnikschool.bsky.social @gamblingondev.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social

📺Watch via the CSAE YouTube channel 👇

Making cup cakes and vanilla coffees great again.

2nd top tariff (47%) on Madagascar ( extreme poverty 80%)

to punish them for selling vanilla (production 3000 tons, top export to US).

instead of hockey mums buying from US producers (production 0.2 tons).

CSAE VISITING FELLOWSHIPS CSAE Visiting Fellowships

We have just opened the 2026 CSAE Fellowship scheme. We host and support rising African scholars for 3 months at Oxford. This year we had five scholars visiting. See the application process here www.csae.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel....

We have just opened the 2026 CSAE Fellowship scheme. We host and support rising African scholars for 3 months at Oxford. This year we had five scholars visiting. See the application process here www.csae.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel....

final session at our ⁦‪@Oxford_CSAE‬⁩ conference. 500+ participants. Hundreds of papers. Record representation of rising African scholars. #OxCSAEConference

Less aid is a reality. What's left can be used better. Last few chapters suggesting how.

Musk is wrong – foreign aid is how countries show their character to the world The evidence shows international aid – when spent correctly – can bring tremendous benefits and save millions of lives, writes expert and author Stefan Dercon. But if helping people cope with deprivat...

My op-ed on the aid cuts in the US, the UK and Europe in The Independent:

Foreign aid is how countries show their national character to the world

www.independent.co.uk/voices/musk-...

Can international aid survive in a crumbling world order? As western governments dramatically scale back budgets, remaining funding is likely to be a more obvious tool of geopolitical interests

"Aid is likely to become more transactional."

Professor Stefan Dercon comments on the future of aid in this latest piece in @financialtimes.com 👇
www.ft.com/content/b366...

#GlobalAid #Trump #USAID @gamblingondev.bsky.social