Lorena Lombardozzi

Dispatch from Seville | Daniela Gabor Fracturing multilateralism at the UN Financing for Development conference

The UN Financing for Development FfD4 conference starts tomorrow!
In the first Dispatches from Seville, I show how FfD4 has put 'development outcomes' makeup over Billions to Trillions 'investible development' model (aka Wall Street Consensus)

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The Ecomodernist Dilemma - Pluto Press

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China is reshaping central Asia’s energy sector as Russian influence fades China is developing closer ties with countries in central Asia.

🔍Check out @lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social 's brilliant piece in the Conversation @theconversation.com "China is reshaping central Asia’s energy sector as Russian influence fades"
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China is reshaping central Asia’s energy sector as Russian influence fades China is developing closer ties with countries in central Asia.

"By becoming a major investor in the region’s energy sector, China is hoping to reduce its dependence on countries such as Russia."

Dr @lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social writes for @theconversation.com on how China is reshaping Central Asia's energy sector.

theconversation.com/china-is-res...

China is reshaping central Asia’s energy sector as Russian influence fades China is developing closer ties with countries in central Asia.

I wrote something on gas and China in Central Asia theconversation.com/china-is-res...

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In Defence of Development Studies: Why “Global Development” Falls Short By Alfredo Saad-Filho There is a growing debate in academic circles about the merits of shifting from traditional Development Studies to a broader concept of “Global Development”. While proponents …

The relationship between the Global North and the Global South remains central to understanding our world, and Development Studies focuses on the causes of these differences and their persistence"

✍️ from our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2102

just an incredible episode. Make time for it.

The Age of Neofascism and Its Distinctive Features - Historical Materialism With each passing day and at an accelerating pace in recent years, it becomes increasingly obvious that we are witnessing a new era of rise of the far right on a global scale, similar to the era of th...

The features of neofascism www.historicalmaterialism.org/the-age-of-n...

📢 Join us for a talk by Shiping Tang, Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai, chaired by Elisa Van Waeyenberge!

📍SOAS, KLT & Zoom
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The science behind winning a Nobel Prize? Being a man from a wealthy family | Torsten Bell A lot of talent is wasted in a world where more than half of laureates come from households in the richest 5%

Class matters, always.

Interesting new paper from @cornelban.bsky.social and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social in New Political Economy. Happy to see more work on indicative planning and to see the planning research agenda develop in general. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Nine out of the top ten countries leading the energy transition to renewables have a publicly owned renewable energy company that drives the process.

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What is the role of the BRI in promoting structural transformation in low- and middle-income countries? @lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social and @lindacalab.bsky.social have put together this fantastic SI, which will be launched on Wed 11 Dec 2025 at 12.30pm. Join us!👇

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The Belt and Road Initiative and Dynamics of Structural Transformation Innovation, Knowledge, Development (IKD) Seminar Series

Please join us for a great IKD Roundtable on: The Belt and Road Initiative and Dynamics of Structural Transformation (launch of the special issue on EJDR @eadi.bsky.social)
🗓️Wed 11th December
⌚️12.30-14.00

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Reflections on Development in Development Studies By Henning Melber There is a history to Developmentalism long before the US-American President Truman’s interpretation in his inaugural address of 1949. He then advocated development as an integral…

"We deal with Development in the shadow of centuries of a Eurocentric fabric, which managed to obtain global influence pretending to be a universal framework taken for granted."

🔎 From our blog

www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1608

Hydrogen Wildcatters Are Betting Big on Kansas to Strike It Rich A growing number of startups are searching for geologic hydrogen from the US Midwest to Australia and hoping for a “Spindletop moment.”

White hydrogen (Natural deposits of hydrogen): Finding it in large quantities could be a game changer in the energy transition. But there's real possibility of failure and the added risk of diverting limited climate capital for proven emission reducing technologies:
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