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What is Development Studies?:

Development Studies is an established area of scholarly enquiry, which implies some consensus over what the study of development entails. Does such a consensus exist? Andy Sumner of King’s College London explores this question further in a new discussion paper and blog post for EADI.

Lecturer in International Development Education (AEP): The successful applicant will be  an outstanding early career social scientist whose research is interdisciplinary and directly relevant to development in middle-income (emerging) economies.

Fixed-term for one year

Salary: £38,826 to £45,649 per annum

Deadline: 16-Aug-2022. Follow the link for full details.

The Global Inequality Boomerang: Andy Sumner and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez have co-authored an updated version of the working paper, The Global Inequality Boomerang for Center for Global Development (May 2022).  They have also co-authored the blog post, The global inequality boomerang with VoxEU (Centre for Economic Policy Research) (May 2022) and they participated in the United Nations DESA (UNDESA) Virtual Expert Group meeting on Creating full and productive employment and decent work for all.

Within-country poverty convergence: evidence from Mexico:  Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez (May 2022), Empirical Economics, Volume 62, issue 5.