Publications

• Klingler-Vidra, Robyn, Chalmers, Adam William and Wade, Robert H. (2025) Who’s governing the market? Bringing the individual back into the study of the developmental state. World Development, 191. ISSN 0305-750X
• Coast, Ernestina, Nandagiri, Rishita, Fry, Andra, de Almada, Midanna, Johnston, Heidi, Atay, Hazal, Ganatra, Bela, Lavelanet, Antonella, Alhassan, Nurudeen, Banke-Thomas, Aduragbemi and Berro Pizzarossa, Lucía (2025) Abortion and well-being: a narrative literature review. SSM – Qualitative Research in Health, 7. ISSN 2667-3215
• Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra and Green, Elliott (2025) Explaining ethno-regional favouritism in Sub-Saharan Africa. World Development, 188. ISSN 0305-750X
• Madon, Shirin and Masiero, Silvia (2025) Digital connectivity and the SDGs: conceptualising the link through an institutional resilience lens. Telecommunications Policy, 49 (1). ISSN 0308-5961
• Lewis, David (2025) Towards a ‘Development Humanities’: widening the multi-disciplinary field of development studies. Oxford Development Studies. ISSN 1360-0818

News

• On Tuesday 1 April, Professor Manfred Bienefeld and Professor Radhika Desai gave a guest lecture on the looming global financial crisis. The event was chaired by Professor Robert Wade. The event can be watched back on YouTube. 
• On Thursday 27 March, we celebrated the inaugural lecture of Professor Tiziana Leone – From menarche to menopause: How Reproductive Histories Shape Women’s health. Professor Ernestina Coast chaired the event. The event can be watched back on YouTube.
• On Tuesday 18 March, Professor Geoffrey West gave a guest lecture on the scaling laws of life and the potential for systemic collapse in a rapidly evolving world. The event was chaired by Professor Jean-Paul Faguet. Watch the event again here.
• We are delighted to share the new HID programme video. The video features HID staff, current students and alums.
• “He seeks to be the biggest gorilla in the jungle, but doesn’t understand that his policies undermine private firms’ capacity to plan investment. This will lead to higher inflation and fewer jobs in the US.” Professor Jean-Paul Faguet talked to BluRadio Colombia about Trump’s tariff proposal. Watch the interview (in Spanish).
• Dr Francesca Beausang-Hunter talked to Professor James Putzel and Bethel Tsegaye to discuss whether there are any lessons for Africa from the development experience of East Asia. You can read, watch and listen to the interview.
• Professor Naila Kabeer gave an opening keynote speech at the ILO celebrations for International Women’s Day and the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration. Watch the recording of the event here. Naila has also written a short essay reflects on how Reversed Realities’s discussions on the gendered division of unpaid labour, fertility rates and the struggle for reproductive rights resonates today, even after 30 years since it was first published.
• Professor Duncan Green’s new blog ‘Activism, Influence and Change‘ is now live. The blog is linked to the Activism, Influence and Change Programme (AICP) which will support greater understandings of, and better practice among, intentional change makers at all levels.

Event

• Speaker: Professor Michael Posner, Professor of Ethics and Finance at NYU’s Stern School of Business and Director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at the School
• Chair: Professor Duncan Green, Director of LSE’s new Activism, Change and Influence programme and Professor in Practice in the International Development Department