GDI news, November 2025
Call for papers
Daniela Gabor, Lee Jones, Len Ishmael and Ken Opalo are some of the speakers at the GDI conference themed on: What is the future for global development? The conference is in-person only and currently has a call for papers that specifically address the questions in three specified themes. 1.The new geopolitics of global d/Development. 2) The global development architecture in polycrisis: adapting or dead? 3) Thinking from a global development perspective: potential and pitfalls. More information can be found here.
Podcast
Navigating development careers in a tough jobs market: Alumni Discussion: Navigating Development Careers in the Twenty-First Century.
Publications
- Tekle Weldemichel published ‘Famine in Tigray: Hunger and Humiliation’, a paper for the World Peace Foundation, as well as an accompanying blog.
- Zhiqiang Zheng published ‘How does transport infrastructure development impact rural livelihoods in the Global South? A systematic review of the English language academic literature’ in Environmental Science & Policy.
- Tanja Müller published ‘Belonging in Exile, in Diaspora “at Home”: Findings From Eritrean Migrants in Addis Ababa’ in Africa Spectrum.
- Arash Beidollahkhani published ‘Visual resistance, digital counterpublics, and feminist agency in Iran’s digital protests from 2018 to 2023’ in Discourse and Communication.
- Antonio Savoia has published a new UNU-WIDER working paper: ‘Curse or Blessing? The Effect of Inequality on Financial Development’, WIDER Working Paper 2025/59 Helsinki: UNU-WIDER, 2025.
- Charis Enns, Nashipai Karinten, and co-authors published ‘Weaving knowledges to support wildlife health surveillance in Kenya’s pastoral rangelands’ in Conservation Biology.
- Richard Heeks and Yujia He published “Analysing the US-China ‘AI Cold War’ Narrative” in St. Antony’s International Review.
- Pritish Behuria published ‘The Deceptive Allure of Luxury Tourism: The Political Economy of Tourism Strategies in Mauritius, Botswana, and Rwanda’ in African Studies Review.
- Oliver Bakewell published ‘Diaspora Formations in the Horn of Africa’ in Africa Spectrum.