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Join CSAE Director Stefan Dercon for a webinar on CSAE scholarships available to African nationals applying to study on the MPhil and DPhil in Economics programmes at the Dept of Economics, University of Oxford in 2026.
🗓️ Mon 28 July, 2 pm WAT, 4 pm EAT
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July 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Excited to announce

the Spanish translation of Gambling on Development

Apostar por el desarrollo

out with Catarata 28 April 2025

for example see:

librerialorcacuenca.com/es/libro/apo...
April 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
final session at our ⁦‪@Oxford_CSAE‬⁩ conference. 500+ participants. Hundreds of papers. Record representation of rising African scholars. #OxCSAEConference
March 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Less aid is a reality. What's left can be used better. Last few chapters suggesting how.
March 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I had to sign this letter to the UK PM on the aid cuts.

National Security is a public good: people rightly expect the state to provide it.

How to fund it is a key public finance decision.

Sensible public financial management is all about trade-offs.

This was the wrong one.
February 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
A new paper, just to provoke - on the political economy of economic policy advice - just out in Journal of African Economies. tinyurl.com/2sx7tda3
January 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
December 21, 2024 at 10:19 AM
We are growing, we are hiring - 6 new positions in development economics
One Ass. Professor
Three Post-Docs
One Pre-doc
One Research Manager
www.csae.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
November 17, 2024 at 12:02 PM
I had to move...
November 15, 2024 at 9:29 AM