Stefan Dercon’s excellent article in DawnNews merits reading his brilliant book, “Gambling on Development”.

I spoke to him about the lessons from countries with successful economies that apply to potential reform in Pakistan

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After giving 25 talks to 2500 World Bank staff in 18 months, at last one of the Managing Directors with a copy of my book in his hands.

Glad to host Axel van Trotsenburg, WB Senior MD Dev Policy, for a frank conversation with students and staff at BSG Oxford.

yep - finished 15 Feb actually... and see you in October.

Eid Mubarak

Op-ed in Dawn on Pakistan's economic troubles and the road forward

Time to act is now dawn.com/news/1826612

Moeed Pirzada The deal is essentially a zero-sum game. Instead of an elite bargain for growth and development, Pakistan has a deal that prioritises control of resources, concluded Dercon.'

And this is from Sept 2023.

A key word in what Moazzam Malik says is 'modernisation'.

The paper has much more in it besides buildings & names. But they are still signals. He mentions Irish diplomats. Indian diplomats walking up Clive Steps must be equally galling. We must get our head out of the sand.

Great conversation on the film on the GiveDirectly UBI trial, with film makers, researchers and GD. Worth watching the film too.

Stefan Dercon today in the Dawn newspaper.
Time to act is now Stefan Dercon
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Part of facing up to our colonial past. In order to look and move forward we also need to look back. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-687562…

CRACKING THE CODE OF NATIONAL SUCCESS: INSIGHTS FROM STEFAN DERCON

Mike interviews Stefan Dercon.

Are you an African researcher with a doctorate pursuing a career in #economics ? Apply for the 2025 CSAE Visiting Fellowship today.

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Collaborate, network, & share work at the CSAE (Department of Economics, Oxford, Blavatnik School of Government & ODID) #ResearchOpportunity

The CSAE Conference 2024 is finished. Thank you to all our speakers, panellists, participants, exhibitors, & host, CatzConferences, for an amazing few days filled with discussions on economic #development in Africa. #OxCSAE2024 .

To African scholars based in African Universities:
Applications are now open for the 2025 scheme of the CSAE fellowship. Deadline 31 May 2024.

Always a pleasure to hear Arkebe Oqubay. CSAE Stefan Dercon Adnan Qadir Khan

📣We're hiring 2 exciting senior positions at the What Works Hub for Global Education Blavatnik School of Government University of Oxford Apply by March 25th:
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This piece is so good:

How academic incentives around “evidence based policy” are misaligned with the demands of policymaking in complex settings—and more.

So many insights here, including why the political economy of implementation matters but is often underemphasized.

Watch Blavatnik School professors Stefan Dercon and Emily Jones in conversation with Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP online tomorrow at 5pm GMT, as they discuss the UK’s development strategy and the new economic and geopolitical challenges. Hosted by Oxford Martin School.

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Join us on Wed for the Oxford Martin School Programme of African Governance event 'The UK’s development strategy & the new economic & political challenges' w/ Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, Stefan Dercon, Emily Jones & R Soares de Oliveira

🗓️06 March, 5pm GMT
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At our March 2024 Conference at CSAE, the largest conference on African economics, we will show the Free Money & have a discussion with the films' directors & researchers working at/with GiveDirectly💸, including on the ethics of these Kenyan experiments. #OxCSAE2024