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Anna Minasyan
@annamina.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Economics @UniversityOfGroningen. Political Economy of Development (foreign aid, gender, conflict, culture, trust). 🌴🪷
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Do development aid programs improve women's rights? @annamina.bsky.social examines 30 years of gender-specific development aid data & shows how targeted funding promotes reforms & boosts women's employment. More in our economics talk.
📅 24 June | 13:30 CET | Hybrid
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June 23, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Step 1. Announce arbitrary tariffs for each country
Step 2. When markets crash, pause those tariffs and say they're just leverage for deals
Step 3. Promise deals
Step 4. Fail to make deals
Step 5. Announce arbitrary tariffs for each country

...and yes, I find it hard to keep my cool, sometimes.
May 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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This by @dylanmatt.bsky.social a great piece on where we are in the fog of USAID dismantling.

www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Foreign aid is in danger of extinction. Can anything save it?
The brutal debate over how to rescue foreign aid.
www.vox.com
March 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Dealing with a Double Whammy: The Trump Administration's Directives on Gender and Development
www.cgdev.org/blog/dealing...
Dealing with a Double Whammy: The Trump Administration's Directives on Gender and Development
The Trump administration’s directives to freeze most of US foreign assistance and dismantle USAID have hit the international development ecosystem hard. For people working on issues related to gender ...
www.cgdev.org
February 19, 2025 at 7:47 PM