New paper alert! "Is rural household debt sustainable in a financially included region? Evidence from three districts of Kerala, India" co-authored with REMYA TRESSA JACOB & Gopakumaran Nair of NABARD Online has been published in ODS tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Short thread (1/n)

With the unprecedented increase of financial inclusion in countries such as India, @remyatressa Rudra Sensarma IIM Kozhikode and Dr. Gopakumaran Nair NABARD Online investigate whether rural household debt is sustainable in a financially included region bit.ly/jacobetal

Read Saja al zoubi's gendered analysis on the coping strategies of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. Open Access: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Watch the ODS sponsored Opening Plenary of the DSA2022 conference Development Studies Association. With Jo Beall Aromar Revi William E. Rees Chaired by @cplindner Available to watch online now: bit.ly/ODSDSA2022

Brand new ISSUE 3 of ODS available online now! tandfonline.com/toc/cods20/50/…

Read 𝕀𝕕𝕣𝕚𝕤 𝕂𝕒𝕞𝕓𝕒𝕝𝕒 's new paper in ODS: The impact of precolonial political centralisation on local development: Ghana’s paradox tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… University of South Carolina U of SC Economics

!! Oxford Development Studies online symposium!! 'Social Equity and Care for the Earth: Tensions and Synergies in Latin America and Beyond' taking place September 29th & 30th. Contact [email protected] to register

Oxford Development Studies online symposium takes place September 29 & 30. Check out the programme here hd-ca.org/event/social-e… and register with [email protected]

In 1996, Prof Abdul Raufu Mustapha became Oxford's first Black African University Lecturer. Prof Mustapha had research interests in religion, politics in Nigeria and more. Learn more about his time at Oxford ⬇️ #BlackHistoryMonth

Final issue of ODS for 2022, now online: tandfonline.com/toc/cods20/50/4

Read Maria Franco Gavonel on whether more educated young people are more likely to migrate for studies, work or marriage tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Read Zuhairan et al.'s latest paper using a spatiotemporal analysis of the spread of corruption in Indonesia after decentralisation tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Read Lila Rabinovich of CESR on qualitative data collection using solicited audio recorded diaries with low-income, low-literacy women tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

The impact of Covid-19 on household poverty: Anirudh Krishna & Tushar Agrawal examine impacts and resilience in rural Rajasthan tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Sanford School of Public Policy IIM Udaipur

Save The Date: Professor Lyn Ossome will give our 2023 ODS Annual Lecture May 4th at 4pm (GMT). In person at Queen Elizabeth House or join us online at zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Delighted to announce the winners of the Sanjaya Lall Prize for 2022! Congrats to Daniele CB, Edmundo Oderich & Ângela Camana for best paper: bit.ly/KaingangFarmer… & Congrats to Lucia Rost for best student paper 2021-2022: bit.ly/NorthernUganda…

(An earlier related paper by the same team ODS showed that more ethnically fragmented districts also have higher inequality) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The 2023 ODS Annual Lecture with Lyn Ossome speaking on 'Agrarian Questions of Gendered Labour in Global South Development Trajectories' takes place this Thurs 8th June, 1700 GMT ODID and online. Register for webinar zoom.us/webinar/regist…

The ODS Sanjaya Lall Prize winning paper bit.ly/KaingangFarmer… and our Sanjaya Lall Student Prize paper bit.ly/NorthernUganda are still free to read!

Professor Coleen Vogel @witsgci will be giving the ODS-sponsored Plenary Lecture at #DSA2023 on 'Stories from the South – the interplay of climate science, ‘action’ and implications for development' Friday 30th @ 10am Development Studies Association devstud.org.uk/conference/con…