Picture of a small child holding a bouquet of balloons in a field. Over the image, a text that reads "WIDERAngle Blog: Moving away from traditional aid-or are we moving back?"
Are we moving away from traditional aid or circling back to it? 🤔 Patterns of tied aid and inflated figures are resurfacing.
This blog unpacks what 'traditional aid' means, why it changed, and why current trends might feel more like backtracking.
👉 go.unu.edu/Q09zl
25.11.2025 13:38 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Climate change and inequality are connected – policies need to reflect this
Reducing inequality should be a guiding principle to decisions on climate change.
With Rawane Yasser we’ve just published a piece in @africa.theconversation.com on a question we keep coming back to in our work: what happens when climate action ignores inequality?
If you’re interested in how climate and inequality intersect in practice ⬇️
theconversation.com/climate-chan...
21.11.2025 19:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just in case you needed an additional nudge to support Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
18.10.2025 16:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I was going to tweet this last year but somehow I was impeded…
“When [economic] growth does, and does not, reduce poverty”
www.bii.co.uk/en/news-insi...
— A great literature review by a team including @paddycarter.bsky.social and @paulsegal.bsky.social
11.09.2025 16:58 — 👍 33 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
🌍⚡ #EventoCDMX | No te lo pierdas
📢 Este martes: hablamos de transición energética, desigualdad y movilidad social.
📅 3 de junio, 2025
🕘 09:00 hrs
📍 Tec de Monterrey, sede Mixcoac
📩 Confirma asistencia: presentacion@ceey.org.mx
¡Nos vemos ahí!
#TransiciónEnergética #Desigualdad
30.05.2025 15:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📢 Big news for inequality researchers & policy-makers!
@unu-wider.bsky.social has just released a major update to the World Income Inequality Database (WIID) — the most comprehensive source of global income inequality data.
www.wider.unu.edu/news/unu-wid...
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13.05.2025 15:21 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
a cat is sitting on a couch using a laptop with the word on it written on it
ALT: a cat is sitting on a couch using a laptop with the word on it written on it
📢 call for papers 📢
We’re organizing a conference at AFD (Paris, Oct 7–8) on tackling inequalities and making sustainability real.
Researchers working on just transitions, inequality & policy — this is for you :)
Details here: tinyurl.com/2nfzhs2p
#justtransition #callforpapers #inequality
22.04.2025 15:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Why are we not doing more to fight climate change? New study surveys 40k people in 20 countries to understand 1/ what drives support/opposition to important climate policies 2/ how much people know about climate change & 3/ how info can change perceptions socialeconomicslab.org/internationa...
02.04.2025 20:11 — 👍 37 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
Face au flot d’informations non-vérifiées lancées au sujet de nos activités, remettons les pendules à l’heure :
✅ L’AFD est d’abord une banque car 85 % de notre activité ce sont des prêts que nous accordons.
✅ L’AFD est une banque publique efficace et économe, avec un effet levier considérable : pour 1 euro de l’État français, c’est 12 euros qui sont investis !
Car pour 0,2% de budget de l’État (moins de 2 milliards), l’AFD multiplie par 6 les financements, à hauteur de plus de 12-13 milliards d’euros chaque année. Mais il faut aussi ajouter 12 milliards d’euros supplémentaires de co-financements, publics et privés. Au final, c’est 25 milliards d’euros chaque année de financement.
✅ Et surtout l’AFD est utile pour la France : en investissant sur la santé ou encore le climat à l’international nous investissons aussi pour les concitoyens, nous avons des intérêts mutuels à coopérer.
En plus nos financements créent de la valeur et de l’emploi en France ! Car plus de 50% des marchés financés par l’AFD ont été remportés par des entreprises françaises. Ce sont 3 milliards d’euros de retombées économiques pour les entreprises françaises.
Et c’est 40 000 emplois société civile, expertise et savoir-faire français dans 150 pays et sur le territoire national, en outre-mer et dans l’Hexagone.
Face au flot d’informations non-vérifiées lancées au sujet de nos activités, remettons les pendules à l’heure :
✅ L’AFD est d’abord une banque car 85 % de notre activité ce sont des prêts que nous accordons.
#Développement
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19.02.2025 14:44 — 👍 41 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 5
Afrique subsaharienne : les inégalités diminueront-elles d’ici à 2030 ?
Des inégalités multidimensionnelles persistent à l’échelle régionale et nationale en Afrique subsaharienne. Analyse de leurs causes et des possibles solutions en vue d’y mettre fin, ou au moins de les...
#AcademicSky : les inégalités persistent en Afrique subsaharienne, tant au niveau régional que national
Analyse d'@andadavid.bsky.social, Rawane Yasser, Murray Leibbrand & Vimal Ranchhod de ces disparités & leurs causes pour dessiner des voies de sortie➡️ bit.ly/4hVQ4mD
@france.theconversation.com
14.02.2025 10:36 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Evergreen: Edmund Burke's political insight in one cartoon.
10.02.2025 12:34 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Ramaphosa champions forward-thinking G20 agenda
While Donald Trump is at the head of the pack of global strongman leaders, President Cyril Ramaphosa has placed South Africa firmly in the camp of the diminishing progressive world.
Interesting analysis from ferialhaffajee.bsky.social
"While the Trump administration will drop inclusion and equity, Ramaphosa said: “In the world we inhabit today, the pursuit of equality and the practice of solidarity cannot be separated from sustainable development.”
tinyurl.com/46bayvfz
27.01.2025 06:11 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Pour les gens qui arrivent sur Bluesky en provenance de la communauté « économistes » pensez à suivre le fil bsky.app/profile/did:... et demandez éventuellement à @michaelzemmour.cpesr.fr de vous y ajouter (s’il est trop spamme je lui paierai un café la prochaine fois qu’on se croise)
25.01.2025 08:28 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Map titled "Which countries met the UN's target of giving 0.7% of national income to foreign aid in 2023?" showing countries in three categories: "No data" (white), "Below the UN target" (tan), and "Meeting the UN target" (blue). Only Sweden is shown in blue, meeting the UN's foreign aid target. Countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and various European nations appear in tan, indicating they fall below the target. The map notes that the UN’s 0.7% target is intended for developed countries and references data from the OECD (2024).
Five developed countries met the UN’s target for foreign aid in 2023
22.01.2025 17:55 — 👍 94 🔁 26 💬 4 📌 6
Join us tomorrow at 3 PM CET for the virtual launch event of our report on multidimensional inequalities across sub-Saharan Africa 🎉
Register here 👉 lnkd.in/dMZ-8Q3h
Full report in English: lnkd.in/ex4Dhh6D
Summary in Kiswahili: lnkd.in/ewxJaxjA
Summary in isiXhosa: lnkd.in/eeT3Q7hz
20.01.2025 19:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cannot agree more with @mkevane.com on this
12.01.2025 13:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As usual, Zapiro is brilliant at capturing the world we live in
09.01.2025 09:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy New Year, everyone! May it be full of joy and laughter ✨🎊
31.12.2024 22:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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