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We are the UK association for all those who research, study and teach global development issues

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What is Development Studies

What is development studies and decolonising development.

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We have around 1,000 members, made up of individuals and around 40 institutions

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About

The DSA Conference is an annual event which brings together the development studies community

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DSA2025

Our conference this year is themed "Navigating crisis: dangers and opportunities in development"

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Students and early career researchers are an important part of our community

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Decolonising Development

The initiatives we are undertaking that work towards decolonising development studies

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Membership Directory

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OUP, March 2024 new titles

Discover new titles from Oxford University Press

Browse new publications on economic development and growth and discover essential research on financial inclusion, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, transport labour, and more.

  • Provides a new conceptual framework for understanding the politics of development
  • Includes comparative analysis of over ten countries in the global south
  • Offers concise summaries of eight major, related comparative projects and synthesizes the key findings and implications from these in a one-stop-shop collection
  • This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-BC-ND 4.0 International License.

Sustaining Tanzania’s Economic Development

Edited by Oliver Morrissey, Joseph Semboja, and Maureen Were

  • Explores how the diversification of economic activities improves the welfare of households
  • Studies gender differences in entrepreneurial behaviour and financial inclusion
  • Provides in-depth studies of the apparel and textiles sector in Tanzania
  • An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence
  • Focuses on instances where growth does not benefit the poor, an issue which has received limited attention in the literature
  • Provides a much broader way of investigating the factors through the empirical analysis
  • Uses a multidisciplinary approach, incorporating philosophical content in the conceptual framework and historical perspectives into the discussion of theory

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