We are delighted to announce that Professor Xiaolan Fu has been invited to join the United Nations High-level Advisory Board on Economic and Social Affairs for its third term, commencing in Spring 2025. Find out more

The Technology and Industrialisation for Development Centre (TIDE) launched the Oxford-Mexico industrial policy Co-Lab, a collaborative initiative with FuturoLab. This aims to promote applied research and the international exchange of best practices in industrial policies aligned with the challenges and opportunities in the Mexican context and other Latin American countries. Find out more

Edited by Masooda Bano, The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islamprovides a comprehensive overview of a timely topic that encompasses the fields of Islamic feminist scholarship, anthropology, history, and sociology.

OPHI announced the addition of three distinguished leaders to the MPI Ambassadors and Champions Programme, a group of global leaders who have made a significant difference in the lives of many experiencing poverty and who have inspired countless others in the process. Luis Guillermo Solís, former President of Costa Rica (2014–2018), and Isabel de Saint Malo, former Vice President of Panama (2014–2019), have joined as MPI Ambassadors, and Gonzalo Hernández-Licona has been welcomed as the Inaugural MPI Champion. Find out more

John Gledhill has written for The Conversation on how and why discourse around peace settlements has rapidly changed from discussion of peace ‘agreements’ to talk of peace ‘deals’, and why that’s a problem.

Xiaolan Fu (with Shamika Sirimanne, Senior Advisor to the Secretary-General of UN Trade and Development) has written an article for Project Syndicate asking ‘Will AI Close or Widen the Development Gap?’. The social, economic, and political effects of AI will not naturally bend toward inclusion or equity across the global economy. To ensure that the technology serves all of humanity, not just a few large corporations, governments and civil society must intervene to change the incentives driving its development.

In the latest ODID blog, Sabina Alkire (OPHI Director) highlights some less well-known implications of the recent cuts to USAID, focusing on the flagship Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program, a global public good upon which key analyses of poverty depend.

Helidah Ogude-Chambert has a new Refugee History blog on Cruel Colonial Imaginings.

Adeel Malik has written a blog for Broadstreet (with Dr Rinchan Mirza, Kent University, and Dr Faiz Rehman, IBA, Karachi): Why are frontiers more conflict-prone—and what is the relevance of historical political economy for answering this?.

Jocelyn Alexander has a chapter on ‘The ‘Dissident’ in Fiction and Non-Fiction: History, Imagination, and the Intimate Violence of Nation-making’ in The Politics of the Past in Zimbabwe (eds, Astrid Rasch, Minna Johanna Niemi, and Amanda Hammar).

Adeel Malik has a new CSAE Working Paper on ‘Frontier rule and conflict’.

In a new article in the journal Antipode, alum and Clarendon scholar R.C. Sudheesh explores Adivasi land claims and state responses in Kerala, drawing on his DPhil research.

Muhammad Meki has a new article for Ideas for India based on research in Pakistan and Kenya: Finance for small-firm growth: Towards flexibility and innovation.

Marya Hillesland has a new working paper (with Cheryl R Doss, Serena Masino, Martina Querejeta, Aletheia Amalia Donald, Greg Seymour, and Clare Clingain) titled Deciding Not to Decide: When Is There Power in Not Deciding? (Policy Research Working Paper, World Bank Group).

The latest edition of Dimensions, the MPPN’s magazine on multidimensional poverty, is now available, with a spotlight on transformative perspectives and strategies for addressing multidimensional poverty across diverse contexts.

Nikita Sud features in a new episode of the Belt and Road podcast focusing on ‘Manufacturing the Clean Energy Transition’.