International Development Economics Associates

International Development Economics Associates Pluralist network of progressive economists engaged in research, teaching, and dissemination of critical analyses of economic policy and development.

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ฉ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐“๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฉโ€™๐ฌ ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐ž๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐๐ž ๐๐ž๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ข...
02/10/2026

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ฉ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐“๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฉโ€™๐ฌ ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐ž๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐๐ž ๐๐ž๐Ÿ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š ๐ฐ๐ž๐š๐ค๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐”๐’๐€. ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐จ๐›๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š ๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐Ÿ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ž๐ง ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฑ๐ž๐.

Read the full commentary on President Donald J. Trump's imposed tariff by C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh, originally published in The Hindu Business Line: https://go.networkideas.org/4AHoOm0

01/10/2026

๐Ÿ“Œ Political Economy Exchange and Research (PEER) Forum on in Latin America and the Caribbean
๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 9 October at 5:00-6:45 pm (GMT-3)
โœ๏ธ https://go.networkideas.org/4AogozT
๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Spanish, Portuguese or English with AI-generated live interpretation available

The IDEAs LAC PEER Forum is a space for academic exchange, collaboration, and debate that brings together students and other individuals taking their first steps in research in and the Caribbean.

โ›๏ธContinued patterns of extractivism and ecological harm across the Global South are not accidental byproducts of flawed...
01/10/2026

โ›๏ธContinued patterns of extractivism and ecological harm across the Global South are not accidental byproducts of flawed policy or technical inefficiency, but reflect deeper systemic logics embedded in the architecture of the international monetary and financial system (IMFS).

๐ŸฆThe IMFS helps reproduce a hierarchical world economy in which financial, productive, and ecological asymmetries reinforce one another. In this sense, ecologically unequal exchange should be understood not simply as a pattern of uneven trade in materials and environmental burdens, but as a process that is sustained and reproduced through monetary and financial institutions.

๐Ÿ“„Read the full working paper โ€œDegradation by design: Money, finance and the structural drive towards environmental crisisโ€ by Jeffrey Althouse of Universitรฉ Sorbonne Paris Nord.

โฌLink to download: https://go.networkideas.org/3TPI7ca

01/10/2026

๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿญ๐Ÿ‘ท๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ Workers across ASEAN, especially women, continue to face insecurity due to unpaid work, informal and feminized employment, and inadequate labour and social protections.

๐Ÿ“บ In this video, Hoang Phuong Thao, Country Representative of ActionAid Vietnam, shares her thoughts on the topic. The video was recorded during the conference "Towards a new multilateralism: Cooperation for development in a world without hegemons", held in Beijing in August, in partnership with Tsinghua University's School of Marxism. More info: https://go.networkideas.org/4bY2cTD

โ“ What are the contrasts and similarities in indebtedness in Asia and Latin America, and how have International Monetary...
30/09/2026

โ“ What are the contrasts and similarities in indebtedness in Asia and Latin America, and how have International Monetary Fund policies transformed in both regions over the years?

๐Ÿ“Œ Learn more by attending our independent panel event: โ€œIMF in Asia and Latin America: Historical and contemporary reckoningโ€, happening during the week of the Civil Society Policy Forum. Read more: https://go.networkideas.org/4ADKvDk

๐Ÿ—“ Schedule: 14 October, 9:30-13:15 (Bangkok time)
โœ‹๐Ÿผ Participation mode: Hybrid
* https://forms.gle/NjK2it47UMBJSjSu6 - RSVP via the link to attend in person at Crowne Plaza Bangkok Lumpini Park, or
* https://go.networkideas.org/4h8hEhM - Bookmark this link for the live Zoom session

๐Ÿ—“ October 2026 marks a year and a half since President Donald J. Trumpโ€™s declaration of April 2, 2025 as โ€œLiberation Day...
30/09/2026

๐Ÿ—“ October 2026 marks a year and a half since President Donald J. Trumpโ€™s declaration of April 2, 2025 as โ€œLiberation Dayโ€. Liberation, presumably, would be from an unkept promise by the United States that it would signal with its own trade openness, a commitment to the ideology of free trade. Trumpโ€™s justification for โ€˜renegingโ€™ on that false promise was a claim that the main trading partners of the US had resorted to unfair means to invade Americaโ€™s market and protect their own, leading to the bilateral trade deficits that were, actually, the outcome of a loss of trade competitiveness.

Read the full commentary by C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh, originally published in The Hindu Business Line: https://go.networkideas.org/4AHoOm0

29/09/2026

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œIf you look at the budgets of Latin American or African countries, you are going to see that the highest amount we spend is on external debt. This must change because we are not improving people's lives. And that's a problem.โ€ -- Alicia Girรณn, director of Programa Universitario de Estudios sobre Asia, รfrica y Oceanรญa UNAM at UNAM Universidad Nacional Autรณnoma de Mรฉxico.

๐Ÿ“น This video was taken during the conference "Towards a new multilateralism: Cooperation for development in a world without hegemons", held last month in Beijing, China, in partnership with Tsinghua University's School of Marxism. More info: go.networkideas.org/4bY2cTD

๐Ÿ“„Working paper: Degradation by design: Money, finance and the structural drive towards environmental crisisโฌ‡๏ธLink: https...
28/09/2026

๐Ÿ“„Working paper: Degradation by design: Money, finance and the structural drive towards environmental crisis
โฌ‡๏ธLink: https://go.networkideas.org/3TPI7ca
โœ๏ธAuthor: Jeffrey Althouse of Universitรฉ Sorbonne Paris Nord

This paper advances what can be called a โ€œpolitical ecology of money and financeโ€. While economists often consider money to be a neutral medium of exchange, this approach insists that monetary and financial arrangements are more than mere economic tools. Instead, money and finance should be understood as socio-ecological institutions: they organize relationships between people and environments; define what counts as value; and structure who bears the costs and who reaps the benefits of production and consumption.

From this perspective, continuous and unprecedented ecological degradation lies partly in the design of monetary and financial systems themselves. The institutions that govern the creation and circulation of money influence which activities are profitable, which forms of production are financed, and which countries and social groups face the greatest economic pressures. In doing so, they help organize the geography of extraction and the distribution of energy, materials, and environmental space. Importantly, because monetary systems emerge from within unequal social structures, they also tend to privilege the interests and lifestyles of some groups at the expense of others.

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