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🔎 Read our very first newsletter of the year!
Featuring @unrisd.org's Feminist Foreign and Development Policies and more news from us and our community
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Featuring @unrisd.org's Feminist Foreign and Development Policies and more news from us and our community
mailchi.mp/eadi/nl1janu...
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No 1 from our top-five blog posts in 2025 was this:
"The relationship between the Global North and the Global South remains central to understanding our world, and Development Studies focuses on the causes of these differences and their persistence."
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2102
"The relationship between the Global North and the Global South remains central to understanding our world, and Development Studies focuses on the causes of these differences and their persistence."
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2102
In Defence of Development Studies: Why “Global Development” Falls Short
By Alfredo Saad-Filho There is a growing debate in academic circles about the merits of shifting from traditional Development Studies to a broader concept of “Global Development”. While proponents …
www.developmentresearch.eu
January 15, 2026 at 10:51 AM
No 1 from our top-five blog posts in 2025 was this:
"The relationship between the Global North and the Global South remains central to understanding our world, and Development Studies focuses on the causes of these differences and their persistence."
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2102
"The relationship between the Global North and the Global South remains central to understanding our world, and Development Studies focuses on the causes of these differences and their persistence."
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2102
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📢 Open opportunities with UNU-WIDER!
🔹 Data Scientist (Pretoria, South Africa) for the SA-TIED programme
🔹 Call for Papers: 2026 Jobs & Development Conference (Hong Kong, 9–10 Oct)
🔗 go.unu.edu/0pG8J
🔹 Data Scientist (Pretoria, South Africa) for the SA-TIED programme
🔹 Call for Papers: 2026 Jobs & Development Conference (Hong Kong, 9–10 Oct)
🔗 go.unu.edu/0pG8J
January 25, 2026 at 11:50 AM
📢 Open opportunities with UNU-WIDER!
🔹 Data Scientist (Pretoria, South Africa) for the SA-TIED programme
🔹 Call for Papers: 2026 Jobs & Development Conference (Hong Kong, 9–10 Oct)
🔗 go.unu.edu/0pG8J
🔹 Data Scientist (Pretoria, South Africa) for the SA-TIED programme
🔹 Call for Papers: 2026 Jobs & Development Conference (Hong Kong, 9–10 Oct)
🔗 go.unu.edu/0pG8J
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"Development Studies...often neglects both the past and the future, and its technocratic orientation inhibits exploration of alternatives to, e.g. the global capitalist world order."
✍️From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2387
✍️From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2387
How Social Science Fiction Could Transform Development Research: Extending our Methodological Horizons
By Laura Camfield In an era of increasing complexity and uncertainty, conventional methodological approaches to pressing development concerns such as extreme income inequality often fall short. In …
www.developmentresearch.eu
January 20, 2026 at 9:10 AM
"Development Studies...often neglects both the past and the future, and its technocratic orientation inhibits exploration of alternatives to, e.g. the global capitalist world order."
✍️From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2387
✍️From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2387
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“In a context of geopolitical turbulence, it is critical to develop a compelling narrative for increased global development cooperation”
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2391
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2391
Finding Hope amidst the Ruins – Building a new Narrative for Development Cooperation
By Peter Taylor The re-election of President Trump in January 2025 led to an immediate freeze on all international development funding from USAID, the largest international aid donor. As highlighte…
www.developmentresearch.eu
January 19, 2026 at 12:10 PM
“In a context of geopolitical turbulence, it is critical to develop a compelling narrative for increased global development cooperation”
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2391
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2391
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On today's #EducationDay, we're highlighting women's education in Mozambique 🎓♀️
New @InclusiveMoz research shows: education matters, but alone is not enough to break intergenerational poverty cycles. Solutions lie in quality education and inclusive policy.
📽️ Watch the video to learn more.
New @InclusiveMoz research shows: education matters, but alone is not enough to break intergenerational poverty cycles. Solutions lie in quality education and inclusive policy.
📽️ Watch the video to learn more.
January 24, 2026 at 1:21 PM
On today's #EducationDay, we're highlighting women's education in Mozambique 🎓♀️
New @InclusiveMoz research shows: education matters, but alone is not enough to break intergenerational poverty cycles. Solutions lie in quality education and inclusive policy.
📽️ Watch the video to learn more.
New @InclusiveMoz research shows: education matters, but alone is not enough to break intergenerational poverty cycles. Solutions lie in quality education and inclusive policy.
📽️ Watch the video to learn more.
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"In Zambia, villagers have been presented with their own excrements to shame them away from open defecation, even if there are no alternatives. In the US, the practice of ‘lunch shaming’ involves schools throwing children’s food in the trash.."
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492
Why We Need Empathy to Tackle Poverty
By Keetie Roelen“You need a new vacuum cleaner? Can you prove that your current one is really broken?” This was the response Hanny received from the welfare office in the Dutch city of Tilburg when…
www.developmentresearch.eu
January 19, 2026 at 11:15 AM
"In Zambia, villagers have been presented with their own excrements to shame them away from open defecation, even if there are no alternatives. In the US, the practice of ‘lunch shaming’ involves schools throwing children’s food in the trash.."
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492
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(1/2) 🆕 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭! 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 '𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞'𝐬 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦' 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐚-𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬. buff.ly/MkBR1ke
Michael Glover's book is a rare and unique history of how colonialism in Southern Africa impacted cattle's subjective historical experiences. 👇
Michael Glover's book is a rare and unique history of how colonialism in Southern Africa impacted cattle's subjective historical experiences. 👇
Cattle's Experiences of Colonialism. An Animal History of Southern Africa | African Studies Centre Leiden
This book is a rare and unique history of how colonialism in southern Africa impacted cattle's subjective historical experiences. It positions cattle as sentient, feeling beings in the narrative…
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January 22, 2026 at 12:33 PM
(1/2) 🆕 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭! 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 '𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞'𝐬 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦' 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐚-𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐦 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬. buff.ly/MkBR1ke
Michael Glover's book is a rare and unique history of how colonialism in Southern Africa impacted cattle's subjective historical experiences. 👇
Michael Glover's book is a rare and unique history of how colonialism in Southern Africa impacted cattle's subjective historical experiences. 👇
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🕊️ The role of research in peacebuilding
✨ @developmentuea.bsky.social explores how research with communities in Colombia led to grassroots peacebuilding that continues to grow.
Read the full story: buff.ly/CAAi1TM
✨ @developmentuea.bsky.social explores how research with communities in Colombia led to grassroots peacebuilding that continues to grow.
Read the full story: buff.ly/CAAi1TM
January 23, 2026 at 4:05 PM
🕊️ The role of research in peacebuilding
✨ @developmentuea.bsky.social explores how research with communities in Colombia led to grassroots peacebuilding that continues to grow.
Read the full story: buff.ly/CAAi1TM
✨ @developmentuea.bsky.social explores how research with communities in Colombia led to grassroots peacebuilding that continues to grow.
Read the full story: buff.ly/CAAi1TM
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🧵with our Top 5 blog Posts last Year ⬇️
2025 was a busy year for our blog, with 47 posts published, 10 "Decolonising Stories" and 10 in the "Trump and Development" series
➡️ Here are our top 5 from 2025!
www.developmentresearch.eu?cat=152
➡️ Here are our top 5 from 2025!
www.developmentresearch.eu?cat=152
January 12, 2026 at 1:36 PM
🧵with our Top 5 blog Posts last Year ⬇️
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Read also: "Democracy promotion in times of autocratization: a conceptual note"
📄 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📄 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Democracy promotion in times of autocratization: a conceptual note
Following the third wave of democratization, democracy and its proponents have recently experienced a shift towards autocratization. To date, however, little is known about the impact of this trend...
www.tandfonline.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Read also: "Democracy promotion in times of autocratization: a conceptual note"
📄 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📄 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Interview with Merna Aboul-Ezz on her #PhDResearch into European Court of #HumanRights veil rulings and the role Western feminist and secular discourses play in shaping legal exclusions of veiled #MuslimWomen.
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www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
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www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
January 23, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Interview with Merna Aboul-Ezz on her #PhDResearch into European Court of #HumanRights veil rulings and the role Western feminist and secular discourses play in shaping legal exclusions of veiled #MuslimWomen.
👇
www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
👇
www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...
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What happens to tax collection when violence spreads? Our new research shows rising insecurity in Burkina Faso leads to lower corporate tax payments as firms close or scale back. Supporting businesses & restoring security is vital for rebuilding fiscal capacity.
Read more: go.unu.edu/XZ0xm
Read more: go.unu.edu/XZ0xm
January 23, 2026 at 2:05 PM
What happens to tax collection when violence spreads? Our new research shows rising insecurity in Burkina Faso leads to lower corporate tax payments as firms close or scale back. Supporting businesses & restoring security is vital for rebuilding fiscal capacity.
Read more: go.unu.edu/XZ0xm
Read more: go.unu.edu/XZ0xm
"While poverty rates and the contexts in which they play out are different across country contexts, there is one common denominator in the existence of poverty and the stagnating fight against it: a lack of empathy."
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492
Why We Need Empathy to Tackle Poverty
By Keetie Roelen“You need a new vacuum cleaner? Can you prove that your current one is really broken?” This was the response Hanny received from the welfare office in the Dutch city of Tilburg when…
www.developmentresearch.eu
January 23, 2026 at 11:19 AM
"While poverty rates and the contexts in which they play out are different across country contexts, there is one common denominator in the existence of poverty and the stagnating fight against it: a lack of empathy."
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2492
"Even today there is a massive transfer of resources from the global South to the North in the form of debt service, unequal exchange and profit repatriation by Transn. Corporations. Development cooperation is entirely unable to compensate this even if it wanted to"
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2376
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2376
Transforming the International Development Cooperation System – Mission Impossible?
Interview with Aram Ziai, Chair of Development and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kassel, Germany / part of our “Share your Decolonising Story” project Professor Aram Ziai is an academic who h…
www.developmentresearch.eu
January 23, 2026 at 11:18 AM
"Even today there is a massive transfer of resources from the global South to the North in the form of debt service, unequal exchange and profit repatriation by Transn. Corporations. Development cooperation is entirely unable to compensate this even if it wanted to"
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2376
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2376
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Why should the EU–Mercosur Agreement be regarded as a starting point for the creation of an integrated and dynamic bi-regional economic area?
✍️ Antoni Estevadeordal & Ernesto Talvi
✍️ Antoni Estevadeordal & Ernesto Talvi
The EU-Mercosur agreement: historic and foundational
The signing of the EU-Mercosur agreement establishes a key alliance in a world of geopolitical competition between major blocs.
www.realinstitutoelcano.org
January 23, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Why should the EU–Mercosur Agreement be regarded as a starting point for the creation of an integrated and dynamic bi-regional economic area?
✍️ Antoni Estevadeordal & Ernesto Talvi
✍️ Antoni Estevadeordal & Ernesto Talvi
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This post from our blog, although now two years old, is still one of our most-read pieces:
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1742
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1742
You don’t like the SDGs? Look what else is on offer
By Lauchlan T. Munro My friends on the left generally don’t like the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). I am told the SDGs are neoliberal, incoherent, (neo-)colonial; the SDGs omit too many impo…
www.developmentresearch.eu
January 19, 2026 at 11:20 AM
This post from our blog, although now two years old, is still one of our most-read pieces:
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1742
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1742
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We are excited to bring you a new mini-pod series from our Research for Transformation Lab 🎧
In this episode, GDI's Uma Kothari explores the role of stories and storytelling in research and research impact.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2017560/epis...
In this episode, GDI's Uma Kothari explores the role of stories and storytelling in research and research impact.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2017560/epis...
January 22, 2026 at 2:56 PM
We are excited to bring you a new mini-pod series from our Research for Transformation Lab 🎧
In this episode, GDI's Uma Kothari explores the role of stories and storytelling in research and research impact.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2017560/epis...
In this episode, GDI's Uma Kothari explores the role of stories and storytelling in research and research impact.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2017560/epis...
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When we address poverty in its multiple dimensions, we address multiple challenges simultaneously.
At the OPHI Summer School, learn how to compute & analyse MPIs - key tools for tackling interconnected sustainable development challenges.
Apply before 20 March: ophi.org.uk/event/ophi-s...
At the OPHI Summer School, learn how to compute & analyse MPIs - key tools for tackling interconnected sustainable development challenges.
Apply before 20 March: ophi.org.uk/event/ophi-s...
January 22, 2026 at 4:45 PM
When we address poverty in its multiple dimensions, we address multiple challenges simultaneously.
At the OPHI Summer School, learn how to compute & analyse MPIs - key tools for tackling interconnected sustainable development challenges.
Apply before 20 March: ophi.org.uk/event/ophi-s...
At the OPHI Summer School, learn how to compute & analyse MPIs - key tools for tackling interconnected sustainable development challenges.
Apply before 20 March: ophi.org.uk/event/ophi-s...
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Based on his dissertation, Will LaFleur calls for rethinking the fundamentals of food production in line with degrowth
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2473
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2473
What Would it Take to Build a Post-Extractivist Agriculture?
By Will LaFleur What is the relationship between extractivism, agriculture, and a sustainable future? As I started the fieldwork for my doctoral studies, this question sat at the heart of my inquir…
www.developmentresearch.eu
January 16, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Based on his dissertation, Will LaFleur calls for rethinking the fundamentals of food production in line with degrowth
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2473
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2473
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💥New ÖFSE Policy Note!
"From human development to human capital development?
Critical reflections on the EU education and skills policies in Africa with a focus on the Global Gateway", by Margarita Langthaler and Esther Tiefengraber.
Download 👉 tinyurl.com/5ep9te3p
"From human development to human capital development?
Critical reflections on the EU education and skills policies in Africa with a focus on the Global Gateway", by Margarita Langthaler and Esther Tiefengraber.
Download 👉 tinyurl.com/5ep9te3p
January 22, 2026 at 2:12 PM
💥New ÖFSE Policy Note!
"From human development to human capital development?
Critical reflections on the EU education and skills policies in Africa with a focus on the Global Gateway", by Margarita Langthaler and Esther Tiefengraber.
Download 👉 tinyurl.com/5ep9te3p
"From human development to human capital development?
Critical reflections on the EU education and skills policies in Africa with a focus on the Global Gateway", by Margarita Langthaler and Esther Tiefengraber.
Download 👉 tinyurl.com/5ep9te3p
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Venezuela’s oil sector has experienced a profound decline in production and a deterioration of its infrastructure over recent decades. We analyse the possible scenarios for its recovery.
✍️ Gonzalo Escribano
www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/analyses/...
✍️ Gonzalo Escribano
www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/analyses/...
Venezuela’s oil: evolution, scenarios and international repercussions
A full recovery to the production of Venezuela's oil sector after Chavismo and the US sanctions could take years and will require the convergence of many factors.
www.realinstitutoelcano.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Venezuela’s oil sector has experienced a profound decline in production and a deterioration of its infrastructure over recent decades. We analyse the possible scenarios for its recovery.
✍️ Gonzalo Escribano
www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/analyses/...
✍️ Gonzalo Escribano
www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/analyses/...
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📢 Call for papers: Envisioning Labour-Led Urban Development by @globaldevinst.bsky.social
📍 @manchester.ac.uk / hybrid
📆 23-24th April 2026
⏰ Abstracts by 31st January
Find out more: buff.ly/r3tlxKt
📍 @manchester.ac.uk / hybrid
📆 23-24th April 2026
⏰ Abstracts by 31st January
Find out more: buff.ly/r3tlxKt
January 22, 2026 at 2:59 PM
📢 Call for papers: Envisioning Labour-Led Urban Development by @globaldevinst.bsky.social
📍 @manchester.ac.uk / hybrid
📆 23-24th April 2026
⏰ Abstracts by 31st January
Find out more: buff.ly/r3tlxKt
📍 @manchester.ac.uk / hybrid
📆 23-24th April 2026
⏰ Abstracts by 31st January
Find out more: buff.ly/r3tlxKt
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📢 Registration is now open for the GDI conference on the future of global development.
Join us in Manchester 13-14 April 2026 for two days of discussions around the conference's themes, which you can learn more about in this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Ly...
Register for free: bit.ly/4pVymmK
Join us in Manchester 13-14 April 2026 for two days of discussions around the conference's themes, which you can learn more about in this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Ly...
Register for free: bit.ly/4pVymmK
GDI Conference: What is the future for global development?
YouTube video by Global Development Institute
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2026 at 3:57 PM
📢 Registration is now open for the GDI conference on the future of global development.
Join us in Manchester 13-14 April 2026 for two days of discussions around the conference's themes, which you can learn more about in this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Ly...
Register for free: bit.ly/4pVymmK
Join us in Manchester 13-14 April 2026 for two days of discussions around the conference's themes, which you can learn more about in this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Ly...
Register for free: bit.ly/4pVymmK
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@policycenterns.bsky.social hosted a seminar titled “Crisis or Opportunity? #Multilateralism in a Polycentric World" with contributions from Len Ishmael, @andypsumner.bsky.social &
@stephanklingebiel.bsky.social.
Watch the full session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iQI...
@stephanklingebiel.bsky.social.
Watch the full session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iQI...
Crisis or Opportunity? Multilateralism in a Polycentric World
YouTube video by Policy Center for the New South
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:59 PM
@policycenterns.bsky.social hosted a seminar titled “Crisis or Opportunity? #Multilateralism in a Polycentric World" with contributions from Len Ishmael, @andypsumner.bsky.social &
@stephanklingebiel.bsky.social.
Watch the full session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iQI...
@stephanklingebiel.bsky.social.
Watch the full session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iQI...
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"By examining the intertwined relationships between finance, extraction, and transitions, researchers can gain insights into the power dynamics, contradictions, and alternatives shaping the future of energy production and consumption"
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1874
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1874
Unravelling the Geographies of the Green Transition: Understanding the Finance-Extraction-Transitions Nexus
By Tobias Franz and Angus McNelly The transition from fossil fuels to green energy in the 21st century – driven by the urgent need to address anthropogenic climate change – represents a monumental …
www.developmentresearch.eu
January 19, 2026 at 11:17 AM
"By examining the intertwined relationships between finance, extraction, and transitions, researchers can gain insights into the power dynamics, contradictions, and alternatives shaping the future of energy production and consumption"
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1874
✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1874