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13/09/2024
🎉 We are thrilled to welcome Daniela Gabor as new Professor of at SOAS University of London!
Her expertise in shadow banking and her critical macro-finance perspectives to social and climate justice will make a great contribution to our teaching and research.
Welcome aboard Daniela! 🚀
06/09/2024
📌 Join us TODAY at for a lecture with Former Governor of Bangladesh Bank Dr Atiur Rahman!
More info about the event ⬇️
https://tinyurl.com/ypk4zny5
Bank is one of the first central banks that incorporated climate considerations into its operations.
Join us TOMORROW at SOAS University of London for a lecture with Former Governor of Bangladesh Bank Dr Atiur Rahman.
More info about the event ⬇️
https://tinyurl.com/ypk4zny5
05/09/2024
Bank is one of the first central banks that incorporated climate considerations into its operations.
Join us TOMORROW at SOAS University of London for a lecture with Former Governor of Bangladesh Bank Dr Atiur Rahman.
More info about the event ⬇️
https://tinyurl.com/ypk4zny5
12/08/2024
📌 SOAS Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation held its first bi-annual conference:
“Powering Production: A Developmental Energy Transition for Africa.” 🌍
Read the blog ⬇️
https://tinyurl.com/2p7kc6n3
11/08/2024
📌 The rise of ride-hailing apps in has absorbed informal labour into the gig economy.
Kafi Prasetya explores the labour conditions to assess their impact on the social welfare of the workers.
Read the blog ⬇️
https://tinyurl.com/mr3fyuw8
06/08/2024
📌 SOAS Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation held its first bi-annual conference:
“Powering Production: A Developmental Energy Transition for Africa.” 🌍
Read the blog ⬇️
https://tinyurl.com/2p7kc6n3
06/08/2024
Bangladesh Bank has been one of the first central banks around the world that incorporated climate considerations into its operations.
Join us on 6 September at SOAS for a lecture with Former Governor of Bangladesh Bank Dr. Atiur Rahman about the innovative initiatives that Bangladesh Bank took under his leadership in 2009-2016 to mainstream environmental and social concerns in central banking.
More info about the event ⬇️
https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/central-banking-and-climate-change-case-bangladesh
26/07/2024
⚠️ Check out the last working paper of our SOAS University of London Reader Yannis Dafermos
He argues that the current climate actions and plans are inconsistent with the realities of the climate 🌍
📜 Read the working paper ⬇️
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/42250/
22/07/2024
📌 Mobile banking has played a critical role in driving financial inclusion in 🌍
Yaerin Yoon and Dr Thereza Balliester Reis explore shifting the focus from access to enhancing financial stability and resilience.
Read the blog ⬇️
https://tinyurl.com/3szy25u9
19/07/2024
📌 Mobile banking has played a critical role in driving financial inclusion in 🌍
Yaerin Yoon and Dr Thereza Balliester Reis explore shifting the focus from access to enhancing financial stability and resilience.
Read the blog ⬇️
https://tinyurl.com/3szy25u9
11/07/2024
📌 Great discussion yesterday about the future of the Bretton Woods Institutions with our outstanding speakers: Prof Naila Kabeer, EmmaBurgisser, Farwa Sial & SOAS University of London Professor Ulrich Volz
We are grateful to Bretton Woods Project and Centre for Sustainable Finance for organising this great event!
08/07/2024
📌 Unveiling a hidden crisis: The global scale of social exclusion.
SOAS University of London Economist Dr Niño-Zarazúa explores its causes, regional disparities, and the need for targeted policies.
Read the blog ⬇️
https://tinyurl.com/4c72whky
08/07/2024
📌 Join us with Bretton Woods Project and the SOAS Centre for Sustainable Finance on Wed 10/07 for the event:
The Bretton Woods Institutions at 80: Where do we go from here❓
Info event and registration ⬇️
https://tinyurl.com/39zbuzup
04/07/2024
📌 Why clientelistic politics matter for development prospects.
SOAS University of London Economist Dr Miguel Niño-Zarazúa explores the complex effects of clientelism on economic development, state capacity, and governance in the context of rising populism and autocracies.
Read the blog ⬇️
https://tinyurl.com/554cdp8d
02/07/2024
📌 The Centre for Sustainable Structural Transformation presents at SOAS University of London its first bi-annual conference!
Powering production: a developmental energy transition for 🌍
Info and registration ⬇️ https://tinyurl.com/5dwfthmb
01/07/2024
SOAS University of London was delighted to be able to host the 2024 Development Studies Association annual conference last week.
Hosting a conference is an enormous privilege, allowing us to develop the theme around which the presentations, lectures and discussions revolve.
Thank you to everyone involved in making hashtag an amazing conference.
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28/06/2024
📌 “Recognising that many 'development' policies and initiatives have been on the wrong side of history is a starting point to recognising development as a social justice issue.
Centring social justice issues in our research can create important opportunities for real world, systemic change.”
- Prof. Navtej Kaur Purewal, SOAS University of London
With this, we mark the end of an immensely enriching Development Studies Association conference!
28/06/2024
📌 Dr Matteo Rizzo, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS University of London convened at the Development Studies Association Conference in the panel “Digital work, social justice and development”.
The panel interrogated the emergence of the gig economy and its impact on workers’ struggles for social justice.
28/06/2024
📌 Alessandra Mezzadri, Reader in Global Development & Political Economy at SOAS University of London, along with Nik Hammer, Naomi Hossein and Jean Jenkins convenes panel P05, which situates labour struggles in garment shopfloors navigating through politics and social justice in South Asian industries, among other contexts.
28/06/2024
28/06/2024
📌 Althea Rivas, Senior Lecturer in Global Development, Peace & Conflict at SOAS University of London joins Angela Haynes and Helina Shebeshe to co-convene panel PE04 today from 11:00-12:30 in Room B305:
"Studying and doing development while being Black”.
Don't miss this insightful discussion! 🎤
28/06/2024
📌Development Studies Association closes out with Althea-Maria Rivas, Helina Shebeshe, Naomi Hossain, Fathimah Fildzah Izzati, Alessandra Mezzadri, Hannah Bennet, Richard Axelby, Emma Crewe from SOAS University of London presenting their insights on ‘Social Justice and Development in a Polarising World’.
27/06/2024
📌 Dr Alessandra Mezzadri, Reader in Global Development & Political Economy at SOAS University of London, co-convenes with Naomi Hossain, Jean Jenkins and Nikolaus Hammer panel P05 on:
‘Manufacturing social justice and the politics of labour in and out the global garment shopfloor’, today and tomorrow.
27/06/2024
📌 Sara Stevano, Senior Lecturer in Economics at SOAS University of London is convening panel P08 at the Development Studies Association Conference today in Room G51:
“The colonial roots of commodity dependence”.
27/06/2024
📌 Naomi Hossain, Global Research Professor at SOAS University of London delivered the second keynote at Development Studies Association Conference chaired by Prof. Navtej Purewal titled:
‘On not being poor: bare life and Bangla-futurism in the aid lab’.
27/06/2024
📌 Check out the recent policy piece by our SOAS University of London Lecturer, Surbhi Kesar in
"Subcontracting linkages in India’s informal economy".
Read the policy piece ⬇️
https://tinyurl.com/23wn8b33
27/06/2024
📌 Giuseppina Siciliano, Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Development at SOAS University of London is convening panel P17 at the Development Studies Association Conference:
“Pluralising energy transitions: co-production of knowledge for a collaborative definition of energy solutions and alternatives.” 🔋
27/06/2024
📌 On 3 July, Dr Nicola Ranger will deliver an online seminar:
🚀 Powering-up public finance to drive economy-wide adaptation: Climate-nature fiscal risks, debt sustainability, and mobilising private investment.
For details and the registration link, visit ⬇️
https://tinyurl.com/b5uezm9t
27/06/2024
📌 Today, Development Studies Association features SOAS University of London very own researchers!
Yasmine Hafez, Naomi Hossain, Thomas Tanner, Sara Stevano, Giuseppina Siciliano, Alessandra Mezzadri, Subir Sinha, Susanne Jaspars, Iris Lim, Katherine Onursal, Zoe Marriage, Fathimah Fildzah Izzati, Fildzah Husna Amalina, Surbhi Kesar, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Elizabeth Hull
26/06/2024
📌 Shirin Rai addressed the as part of the event’s keynote, chaired by Alessandra Mezzadri.
Inspired by her book ‘Depletion: the Human Costs of Caring’, the talk ‘Social Reproduction, Depletion, and/in Crisis’ was a testament to SOAS University of London’ interdisciplinary approach. 🌍
The SOAS Department of Economics is a leading centre for economics research. We have a vibrant research culture driven by staff working on a plethora of issues, but we specialise in the study of developing and emerging economies and our work covers an unparalleled range of countries and regions. We offer a pluralist and applied approach to the study of economics to our students. To be sure, one of our goals is to ensure that all our students graduate with an excellent understanding of mainstream economic theory. However, we also encourage our students to develop a proper understanding of the limitations of mainstream theory. In so doing, we place great emphasis on introducing our students to the history of economics as a discipline and, importantly, to some of the alternative, 'heterodox' approaches to economic analysis, including Marxist, feminist, Keynesian, and Schumpeterian perspectives. At the same time, the work of the department is fundamentally concerned with the application of economics to real world issues and reflecting real policy concerns. As such, students are encouraged to develop a deep understanding of particular countries and issues, based on concrete analysis of history, institutions, and political economy. This reflects a shared view within the department that economics should be rigorous, reflective and, fundamentally, useful.
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