European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

"Between 2001 and 2021, received more international development assistance than almost any country in modern history. Nevertheless, the Afghan state fell apart within days creating social chaos and causing the country to hit rock-bottom socially, economically and politically like never before in its history." ✍ Our latest blog analyses the failure of the development approach in the country

The Limits of Exporting Development: Lessons from Afghanistan By Abdullah Qayomi Between 2001 and 2021, Afghanistan received more international development assistance than almost any country in modern history. Nevertheless, the Afghan state fell apart within …

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"Exnovation can be considered innovation’s counterpart, and it represents the deliberate and planned process of phasing out unsustainable technologies, business models, laws or entire socio-economic systems." Our latest blog post explores what's needed for food enterprises to thrive

Beyond Innovation: Exnovation as a Catalyst for Post-Growth Transitions By Sabrina Chakori Post-growth entrepreneurship: the need for non-extractivist models There is growing recognition that responding to the socio-ecological crisis requires more than technological fi…

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🎧 New "Innovating Methods" podcast out on Reflexive Economics and the Use of Mixed Methods! 🎙️We are joined by Vijayendra Rao, development economist at the research department in the World Bank. He talks about reflexive economics, the use of mixed methods in economics, and how to maintain reflexivity at a time when technology allows for analysing qualitative data at scale. He shares insights about the rise of mixed methods research in economics, thoughts about the increasing importance of large language models, and a call to move beyond the quantitative and qualitative data distinction.
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Ep. 06 - Reflexive Economics and The Use of Mixed Methods, with Biju Rao Innovating methods in international development research · Episode

"Yet there is a concern held by civil society observers in the region that moratorium positions represent more of a ‘wait and see’ attitude from regional governments, as opposed to a firm stance against the industry. While academics and commentators have long foretold the onset of deep sea mining globally and in the Pacific Islands region, there is a growing sense that intensifying US-China geopolitics combined with industry promotion by some Pacific Islands Countries might drive deep sea mining exploration to commercial exploitation before the decade is out." Our latest blog

The Shifting Geopolitics of Deep-Sea Mining in the Pacific Islands Region: an Industry Poised to Emerge? By Ben Radley and Imogen Eagles The ocean’s seabed contains vast deposits of minerals deemed critical for green transition technologies, military defence systems and AI hardware, among other uses. …

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❓Is "Development" becoming a dirty word? ✍️ Many blogs from events read like school essays, this one doesn't! 🔎Heiner Janus and Michael Roll from the German Institute of Development and Sustainability IDOS discuss the main arguments around the future of development made at a recent Global Development Institute conference in . As it becomes clear when reading the post, the city is a good example for creating and coping with change

What to Play Next: Development after the End of Development By Heiner Janus and Michael Roll Manchester embodies reinvention like few other places. It built the world’s first industrial economy, watched it rust, and recast itself as the capital of Eng…

✍ In our latest blog post, Ryan Briggs and Andy Sumner summarise the findings of their latest reflection paper on the disciplinary roots of disagreement in Development Studies and come to three main conclusions: 💡 1. Discipline trumps location, 💡 2. Problem-solving and positivism arrive as a bundle, 💡 3. The scope debate is a different kind of argument

The Disciplinary Roots of Disagreement in Development Studies: Findings from a Global Survey of Scholars By Ryan Briggs and Andy Sumner Development Studies is institutionally well established. The QS rankings identify over 150 universities with postgraduate Development Studies programmes across approx…

📹️ Yesterday's Dudley Seers lecture with Joyeeta Gupta is now ready for rewatch!💡Given the severity and urgency of our current ecological crises and rising levels of inequality, she argues that a new global constitution is a good way forward 🎤 Facilitation: David Van Reybrouck

Dudley Seers Lecture - Sharing our Earth: Contributing to the Writing of a Global Constitution Our economy and society depend on the ability of the Earth to susta...