The conference will be organised around 3 main themes:

- The new geopolitics of global d/Development
- The global development architecture in polycrisis: adapting or dead?
- Thinking from a global development perspective: potential and pitfalls

Deadline to submit is 3 Dec 2025: bit.ly/4omBJ6o

Smith Ouma has co-authored a chapter in a new open-access book on legal empowerment in informal settlements.

His chapter highlights the role of legal empowerment in establishing the Mukuru Special Planning Area in Nairobi: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

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GDI PhD researcher Zhiqiang Zheng published a new open-access paper reviewing literature on the effect of transport infrastructure on rural livelihoods in the Global South: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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This paper by Pritish Behuria and Andy Sumner considers the concept of the ‘middle-income trap’ in the context of The World Bank's 'World Development Report 2024': onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The open-access book "Diverse Transnational Care -
Ageing and Migration in Bolivia" examines the conditions that older people navigate in Bolivia and the diverse transnational care practices that migrants and their parents engage in.

By Tanja Bastia & Claudia Calsina
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"Belonging in Exile, in Diaspora “at Home”: Findings From Eritrean Migrants in Addis Ababa"

This new open-access paper by Tanja Müller explores the ways in which migrants practice belonging: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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