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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 1d

PEDL 15th Anniversary Conference @cepr.org

Bringing together researchers studying the behaviour of firms in low-income countries & focusing on the market forces that drive efficiency in these countries.

📅26 - 28 Mar 2026
📍Oxford, UK

⏰Submission deadline: 20 Oct
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PEDL 15th Anniversary Conference

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 1d

About the film Khartoum (2025)

5 people navigate the dangerous landscape of war-torn Sudan, their stories intertwine as they pursue dreams, face political turmoil, and overcome obstacles. They struggle for freedom and survival in a chaotic country

Watch the film trailer
youtu.be/5C1bOPkvdZI?...

KHARTOUM trailer | BFI London Film Festival 2025 – 8-19 October

YouTube video by BFI

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 1d

🎦Film Screening & Directors Q&A

Join @odid-qeh.bsky.social for a film screening of 'Khartoum' (2025) followed by a Q&A with the directors.

5 people navigate the dangerous landscape of war-torn Sudan.

📅13 Oct, 5 pm BST
Free tickets, register here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/odid-prese...

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 2d

📽️AND WE'RE LIVE

CSAE Director @gamblingondev.bsky.social hosts a webinar on CSAE Scholarships. @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social

Join here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: CSAE Scholarship Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

The CSAE offers scholarships every year to support candidates from Africa applying for the MPhil and/or DPhil in Economics programme at the University of Oxford. Hosted by CSAE Director Stefan Derco...

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 2d

North East Universities Development Consortium 2025 Conference

📅8-9 November 2025
📍Tufts University

⏰Registration is open until October 17th
neudc2025.com

NEUDC 2025

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 2d

📅📣Happening today at 2 pm WAT / 4 pm EAT.

Join us to find out about CSAE Scholarships & how to make a strong application. Link in previous post 👇

CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 12d

Want advice on how to make a strong application to the MPhil in #Economics course at the University of Oxford?

Join us for a webinar on CSAE Scholarships offered to African nationals applying to study @oxfordecondept.bsky.social.

📆06 Oct, 2-3 WAT/4-5 EAT
💻Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CSAE scholarships webinar graphic with Radcliffe camera photo in the background, CSAE, Economics, Jesus College and Queen's College logos.

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Oxford Martin School @oxmartinschool.bsky.social · 5d

We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher to explore the social, economic & environmental dimensions of food system transitions.

Interested in how diets, food waste, and climate intersect? Join a dynamic, global research team.

More details below ⬇️

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Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social · 6d

🧐 Are you a researcher or DPhil student @ox.ac.uk? Unsure about your first steps in the policy world? Want to hear from academics who've successfully had policy impact?

Join us for our first learning & development session of the new academic year on on 7 October!

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 6d

⭐We're excited to welcome Kenechkwu Nwagbo to the CSAE as a Political Economy Specialist for the Open Political Economy Analysis Programme @blavatnikschool.bsky.social.

Kene specialises in basic education reforms in resource-constrained countries.

Kenechukwu Nwagbo

Kenechukwu is the Political Economy Specialist for the Open Political Economy Analysis Programme. In this role, she helps decision-makers (and other changemakers) navigate the political barriers to…

www.csae.ox.ac.uk

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 6d

⏰4 Days to go until our CSAE Scholarships webinar.

Join us for advice on how to make a strong application to the MPhil in #Economics programme @oxfordecondept.bsky.social with tips from current MPhil scholarship holders.

📅Monday 06 Oct, 2-3 WAT/4-5 EAT
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Blavatnik School of Government @blavatnikschool.bsky.social · 8d

Blavatnik School’s Dr Stephen Paduano, with Brad Setser, analyses why Javier Milei’s reliance on US and IMF bailouts could spell trouble for Argentina’s future. 👇
https://ow.ly/6xve50X4gVs

Other people’s money, and the problem with Mileism

The US Treasury needs to get Argentina on a better policy path before it blows through the Exchange Stabilization Fund

ow.ly

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 7d

⭐ We're pleased to welcome to Cameron Thibos to the CSAE as the Programme Manager for the Open Political Economy Analysis Programme @blavatnikschool.bsky.social

Cameron was awarded a DPhil in International Development from @politicsoxford.bsky.social

Cameron Thibos

Cameron Thibos is Programme Manager of the Open Political Economy Analysis Programme, a joint initiative of the Centre for the Study of African Economies and the Blavatnik School of Government at the…

csae.web.ox.ac.uk

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 7d

🫶Thank you to all our delegates who joined us for the Oxford Development Economics Workshop this year. We had a lovely two days at St Catherine's College listening to a variety of development economics papers.

People enter the Mary Sunley Building by a brick wall at St Catherine's College.

Swans and ducks on the canal at St Catherine's College

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Blavatnik School of Government @blavatnikschool.bsky.social · 13d

🤔 When urgent challenges demand action but strong evidence takes time, how should policymakers respond?

A new teaching case explores Rwanda’s education reforms – from @wwhglobaled.bsky.social, The Case Centre and Prof Clare Leaver 👇
ow.ly/Pcmg50X0Gqr

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 8d

⭐We're delighted to welcome Lara Collart (@laracollart.bsky.social @iobua.bsky.social) to the CSAE this term as a visiting PhD student @oxfordecondept.bsky.social.

Lara's work focuses on conservation, conflict, natural resources & clean cooking in Eastern DRC.
www.csae.ox.ac.uk/people/lara-...

Lara Collart

www.csae.ox.ac.uk

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 9d

🌞The sun is out & the Oxford Development Economics Workshop 2025 is in full swing. Welcome to all of our delegates.

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 9d

Calling all African nationals thinking of applying for the MPhil in #Economics course at the University of Oxford.

Join us for a webinar on CSAE Scholarships to get advice on how to make a strong application.

📆06 Oct, 2-3 WAT/4-5 EAT
💻Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#GraduateApplications

CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 12d

⭐We're delighted to welcome Teferi Mergo to the CSAE as a visitor. @oxfordecondept.bsky.social

Teferi is an Associate Professor of Economics at the @uwaterloo.ca

We look forward to working with you.

Teferi Mergo

Teferi Mergo is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Waterloo (UW), with appointments at United College and the Economics department. He is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London…

www.csae.ox.ac.uk

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 12d

Want advice on how to make a strong application to the MPhil in #Economics course at the University of Oxford?

Join us for a webinar on CSAE Scholarships offered to African nationals applying to study @oxfordecondept.bsky.social.

📆06 Oct, 2-3 WAT/4-5 EAT
💻Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 13d

Can research skills be integrated into operational implementation?

@noamangrist.bsky.social discusses scaling-up & embedding evidence directly into the implementation process at the India Scale-Up Summit 👇

@wwhglobaled.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/QZ_UqVs...

India Scale-Up Summit 2025: An ASPIRE Convening

YouTube video by J-PAL

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 13d

Leveraging $100M in VNP investments & 1600 new enterprises, this project assesses impacts on both conservation & rural development.

🔍@gamblingondev.bsky.social, Ashley Pople, Sébastien Desbureaux, Richard-Gilbert Nikiema, Gracieux Mutaka Shashi

@blavatnikschool.bsky.social

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 13d

🌍Examining the trade-off between conservation & livelihoods:

This CSAE study in Virunga National Park (DRC) tests whether expanding access to non-agricultural employment reduces demand for farmland & supports biodiversity protection.

@inrae-france.bsky.social
www.csae.ox.ac.uk/from-farms-t...

PROMOTING JOB CREATION TO SAVE WILDLIFE: AN EXPERIMENT IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

www.csae.ox.ac.uk

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 14d

🌊Every year millions of people are uprooted by flooding. These days forecasts have allowed support to come before the crisis: anticipatory action.

Ashley Pople discusses results from a @wfp.org pilot delivering cash to households before severe floods in Bangladesh.👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOxS...

CSAE Key Research Takeaways — Anticipatory Cash Transfers

YouTube video by Centre for the Study of African Economies

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Stefan Dercon @gamblingondev.bsky.social · 15d

An aspiring scholarly economist from Africa? We have scholarships to study economics at graduate level at Oxford. See below!!!

CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · Sep 8

📣⭐NEW EVENT: Join us for our 2nd CSAE Scholarships Webinar.

With @gamblingondev.bsky.social, @eggerdennis.bsky.social & Karim Boudlal @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social @queenscollegeox.bsky.social #EconSky

📆06 Oct, 2-3 WAT/4-5 EAT
💻Zoom, register here zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CSAE Scholarships webinar graphic with Radcliffe Camera photo in background.

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 15d

Today, the CSAE's @noamangrist.bsky.social joins the India Scale-Up Summit in Delhi to explore pathways for scaling evidence-based programmes.

Hosted by ASPIRE & @j-pal.bsky.social South Asia.

@wwhglobaled.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social
www.povertyactionlab.org/event/india-...

India Scale-Up Summit 2025: An ASPIRE Convening

The India Scale-Up Summit 2025: An ASPIRE Convening brings together some of the finest minds in India to chart the next phase of scaling up evidence-based programs in India.

www.povertyactionlab.org

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