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Flavio Comim
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human development economist
Would you like to know more about engineering cooperation? iqs.tfaforms.net/f/2nd-lectur...
October 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Next talk on 12 Nov at IQS. It will be about one of the most challenging aspects of our times: cooperation. But we will not merely lament. We will search for solutions, w/ one of the most distinguished Harvard Scholars of our times, Prof Joshua Greene. Interested? iqs.tfaforms.net/f/2nd-lectur...
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
We will close registrations this Wed 22 Oct, 12 noon Barcelona time.
We are excited to host the third International Conference on Aporophobia this Thursday and Friday. For the first time, all sessions will be held online, making it easier for participants around the world to join.
October 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
We are excited to host the third International Conference on Aporophobia this Thursday and Friday. For the first time, all sessions will be held online, making it easier for participants around the world to join.
October 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Want to see the full conference program? aporophobia.iqs.url.edu/en/node/1054 Registration is free but necessary. This year the emphasis is on the notion of stigma. There will also be a conversation with Professor Adela Cortina.
October 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
new videos are being included, as we speak, they cover several interdisciplinary debates on social policy, inequality, poverty...
Check the new videos of the presentations that will be given at the 3rd international Aporophobia Conference this week. It will be online. It is free. www.youtube.com/@Aporophobia...
October 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Check the new videos of the presentations that will be given at the 3rd international Aporophobia Conference this week. It will be online. It is free. www.youtube.com/@Aporophobia...
October 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It is this week! It is online, it is free! You can even participate in the final pre-conference sessions of the reading groups! aporophobia.iqs.url.edu/en/node/1007
October 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
this is mostly for people who are in Barcelona, but we are going to record the talks and hope to make them available later in the year
IQS-Harvard Talks is a public lecture series featuring renowned Harvard scholars on topics related to human relations. Attendance is free, but registration is needed due to limited seating. The series kicks off w/ a talk by Prof Claudia Goldin, registr is now open. iqs.tfaforms.net/f/1st-lectur...
September 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
hobbyist research......how do they actually define that? because research takes most of academics' leisure time......
Hobbyist researcher in action
September 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
mental health is a serious issue in our times
Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.

"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
September 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
IQS-Harvard Talks is a public lecture series featuring renowned Harvard scholars on topics related to human relations. Attendance is free, but registration is needed due to limited seating. The series kicks off w/ a talk by Prof Claudia Goldin, registr is now open. iqs.tfaforms.net/f/1st-lectur...
September 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
final reminder
aporophobia.iqs.url.edu/en/node/453
This will be a different congress with reading groups and possibilities of collaboration for researchers doing work related to aporophobia and social policy
July 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Can we really talk about any social policy concerning poverty or inequality without talking about how haves reject the have-nots?
This is going to be a totally different conference, with reading groups, virtual communities and the purpose of building a global network to fight against aporophobia (rejection of the poor) aporophobia.iqs.url.edu/es/node/453
June 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
passing through Paris on my way to Seoul, where I will be assessing a business school for AACSB
June 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
A proper discussion about toxic masculinity and political participation is necessary. Could this be a beginning? www.cnn.com/2025/06/07/u...
Democrats set out to study male voters with ‘Sam Project’ | CNN
Ilyse Hogue, co-founder of Speaking with American Men Project, argues that men support progressive policies but feel abandoned by the Democratic Party.
www.cnn.com
June 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This is going to be a totally different conference, with reading groups, virtual communities and the purpose of building a global network to fight against aporophobia (rejection of the poor) aporophobia.iqs.url.edu/es/node/453
June 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
most interesting!
🎓 If you missed the chance to attend our event with Prof. David Bartram, Editor of Social Indicators Research — “What Makes Rigorous Quantitative Social Research?” —

🎥 The full recording is now available on YouTube!

👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pE5...
May 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
politicians always repeat the same mantra. The truth of the matter is that the political establishment is more often than not....aporophobic!
Last year, Keir Starmer said: "No child should grow up in poverty", but right now child poverty is at a devastating new high of 4.5 million and set to rise.

We’re amplifying the voices of some of these children, their parents and their support workers to MPs who have the power to change this.

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May 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
today I cried in front of my tv, watching an old men crying, in Palestine, explaining that he does not eat for 3 days, just after a mother, holding her dead baby, blamed herself for not being able to feed him. But social media seems to be in a different world. Is it only me who finds it unbearable?
May 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Last Friday we had the privilege of listening to @mariaabreu.bsky.social at @iqsbarcelona.bsky.social talking about "The geography of discontent: how to address the challenge of left-behind places". (cont)
May 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Thanks @mariaabreu.bsky.social and @cakvenvold.bsky.social for the collaboration and to @regstud.bsky.social for the wonderful award
The @regionalstudies.bsky.social Policy Debates Best Paper Award goes to @mariaabreu.bsky.social @calvjones.bsky.social and ‪@fcomim.bsky.social‬ for A capability-approach perspective on regional development doi.org/10.1080/0034...)

Watch @prt1969.bsky.social present the award bit.ly/43rbOkI
May 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
There is sth wrong with the way that they are displaying these data for Brazil. The main message seems simply silly

www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2025...
www1.folha.uol.com.br
May 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Reposted by Flavio Comim
📢 Just released: Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Vol. 26, Issue 2!

This issue features articles, policy forums, book reviews, and comments—advancing debates on justice, agency, and development.

We’ll highlight each piece over the coming weeks.
#CapabilitiesApproach #HumanDevelopment
May 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
very interesting. A good challenge is to unpack the meaning of 'discontent'....
Great article -

You help "left behind" areas by helping the nearest big city. Our problem is the relative economic weakness of our big cities outside London.
BRIEFING | The myth of “left behind”

❓How should government respond to the political discontent signalled by the vote to leave the European Union and the more recent rise of Reform UK?

buff.ly/g8K7EDQ 👇
May 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM