This year marks the 10th year anniversary of UNU-WIDER's SOUTHMOD!
Looking back on a decade of tax-benefit microsimulation modelling, a key question emerges: what has kept the models relevant and useful over time? The answer is research.
Read more: go.unu.edu/rBm0w
🎙️ DSA Council member Laura Camfield & @keetieroelen.bsky.social, @oucsgd.bsky.social Deputy Director talk with Shakil Ahmed, Ridiculous Futures in the @eadi.bsky.social podcast on future studies and what it offers global development.
🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/7N9TKqF
A new publication by GDI's Salauddin Tauseef and co-authors considers how mobile phones help overcome social and economic disparity among women in South Asia, where female labour force participation is low.
Read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1/5: As we look ahead to the G20 in the USA, how is global policy shaped? We're sharing 3 crucial research papers that unpack the mechanics of G20 consensus, tax justice, and the power of the Global South. 🧵👇
The call behind these papers🔗: tinyurl.com/297v7zcy
How do African actors, especially bureaucrats, shape Chinese-financed digital projects? What happens when political leadership changes? And what are the implications for Digital Global Gateway? 💡
A new @megatrends-afrika.de #PolicyBrief by IDOS expert Hangwei Li explores this question.
"In sum, the likely outcome of oil shock is a more fragmented, transactional and geographically selective dev. coop. system, where sustained support increasingly flows not to the countries with the greatest needs, but to those deemed geopolitically strategic."
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2603
"These are not separate crises. They are symptoms of an economic model that has reached the end of the road. Poverty and inequality are not accidents; they are predictable outcomes of policy choices"
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“We argue that the role of traditional belief systems needs to be considered along with environmental knowledge systems and different social-ecological systems for long-term sustainability”
https:/www.developmentresearch.eu/?p=2592
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Find the Solutions Paper here:
📲 www.iddri.org/sites/defaul...
