🆕 Understanding the global construction sector 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, Martina Kirchberger (@tcdeconomics.bsky.social) discusses the economics of infrastructure and the construction sector: voxdev.org/topic/infras...

💡 Key takeaways from #NorDev25:
🤝 Build alliances and coordinate efforts to tackle the existing challenges together
📢 Be more vocal – “invite ourselves to spaces we are not invited to”
✨ Left hopeful: “We must dare to invent the future.” @idos-research.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social

💼 Can we call it development if women are shut out of decent work? Our IDOS policy brief shows how to break barriers, ensure women benefit from green/digital transitions & align jobs with social policies.

🔗 doi.org/10.23661/ipb...

@idos-research.bsky.social #GenderEquality #WomensEmployment

✨ Just out on @voxdev.bsky.social: our blog on firstborn daughters, son preference, and family dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa — co-authored with @mariahdb.bsky.social Take a look 👇👇👇

Male concerns about labor market competition from women played a key role in the rise & fall of "protective" labor laws that often limited women's jobs.

Op-ed based on IZA DP by @mdoepke.bsky.social‬ @hannofoerster.bsky.social‬ @annehannusch.bsky.social‬ & M. Tertilt 👇
wol.iza.org/opinions/pro...

💡Tomorrow is German Diversity Day. Tâmara Andrade, Dr Tatjana Reiber and Dr Anna Schwachula remind that #diversity means more than raising flags. It needs long-term commitment to structures & practices that foster diversity & prevent discrimination.
👉 www.idos-research.de/en/the-curre...

What are the pros and cons of gender quotas on corporate boards of directors? 👩‍💼👨‍💼🏢⚖️

Explore this updated IZA World of Labor Article by Nina Smith and Emma von Essen, including new evidence from ten quota countries. 📊📰🌍

wol.iza.org/articles/gen...

🚨Development Economists!🚨Do you use Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS Program) data, which had been supported by USAID? IPUMS ( @ipums.bsky.social ) and the UN Statistics Division have a survey for you. I just filled it out. You can too. #econsky

Die #Koalitionsverhandlungen bestimmen stark die Zukunft der #Entwicklungspolitik. Dieser Druck bietet die Chance, diese gründlich zu überdenken. @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social nennt fünf zentrale Punkte für eine zukunftsfähige Politik: @tagesspiegel.de: www.tagesspiegel.de/internationa...

Insightful discussions on #GenderEquality, #feminism in local contexts, and the importance of intersectionality were at the heart of the final conference 'Local Feminist Perspectives as Transformation Levers for Greater Gender Equality': www.idos-research.de/en/events/de... @giz.de

Who will AI benefit—the many or the few?
👉 youtu.be/QvQjN73VQGk 👀
Simon Johnson @mitshapingwork.bsky.social argues that policymakers must step in to ensure technology benefits workers, not just corporate elites.

❗The CfA to our panel on "Equitable Green Transitions in Urban SSA: Sustainability and Social Justice" at the #NorDev25 Conference is open till April 4. The panel focuses on the role of #GreenJobs #FemaleEmployment #YouthEmployment #CircularEconomy

We are looking forward to your submissions😀

📢 New research! @astoecker.bsky.social explores barriers to women’s employment in SSA & how education, motherhood & norms shape outcomes. More job variety can widen gender gaps—see how context matters! #InternationalWomensDay #GenderEquality Read more in: www.idos-research.de/discussion-p...

How can previous successes in #genderequality be secured and even expanded against the backdrop of current global challenges? #TheCurrentColumn by Jaqueline Götze, Maryam Khalid & Tina Zintl in the run-up to #InternationalWomensDay 2025. Read more 👇: www.idos-research.de/en/the-curre...

“Pepfar has saved more than 26 million lives and prevented roughly 1,000 babies a day from being born with the HIV virus”

Superb piece on how cuts to USAID will affect the world’s poorest, focusing on HIV

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Cutting aid to increase spending on defence is a false economy and suggests a deep mis-understanding of global politics.

In a world of intensifying geopolitical competition, aid cuts render Western powers less powerful, credible and safe.

A thread, from someone working on aid for a decade

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Subsidising secondary school had transformative impacts.

Female recipients had ~15% fewer unplanned pregnancies, 15% fewer children + significantly delayed age at first childbirth & marriage.

Over time, their offspring’s outcomes improved dramatically ⤵️

Thrilled to see the Child Penalty Atlas featured in @voxdev.bsky.social! Check out the main findings from our Atlas below 👇

Thankful for everyone involved in this fascinating project, and super excited for the next on this important agenda!

voxdev.org/topic/labour...

"Die #Demokratie muss liefern, damit die Menschen auch wieder mehr davon überzeugt sind, dass das System funktioniert."

IDOS-Expertin Lena Gutheil (@mtafrika.bsky.social) im #DeutscheWelle -Beitrag "Wie junge Menschen Afrikas politische Kultur verändern": www.dw.com/de/wie-junge...