Professor Nikita Sud has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for research that seeks to understand the making of the Global South through flows, and contests, around energy. Find out more.

Research by Helidah Ogude-Chambert and colleagues examined how greater knowledge of ‘aid-sharing’, financial redistribution and mentorship impacted attitudes towards refugee integration in Uganda. Read the blog.

What issues does AI raise for developing countries? In a Long Read for Project Syndicate, Xiaolan Fu argued policymakers must navigate questions about ‘appropriateness’. Read the article.

Young Lives showcased a new photo exhibition highlighting the importance of gender-responsive social protection at UNICEF’s ‘We Deserve Better’ event during this year’s UN Commission on the Status of Women. See the online version.

Mengjun Huang from ODID, at the University of Oxford was highly commended for a dissertation entitled “Pursuing ‘Freedom’ in Beijing’s Urban Waste Economy: Desire, becoming, and loss of rural migrant waste workers in China” which the judges found to be “a very impressive piece of work, a valuable contribution to the field of development studies, and is really worthy of commendation in this year’s DSA Masters Dissertation Competition.” Read more.

Faisal Bari, Kashif Malik, Muhammad Meki and Simon Quinn (2024)  Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan. American Economic Review

Corneliu Bjola and Ilan Manor (2024) Digital diplomacy in the age of technological acceleration: three impact scenarios of generative artificial intelligence, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy

Mohbuba Choudhury and Emanuela Paoletti (2024) ‘Reviewing the contribution of the private sector to economic and labour market development in forced displacement contexts‘, RSC Working Paper No 141

Xiaolan Fu, Giacomo Zanello, Carmen Contreras and Xuechen Ding (2024) ‘Innovation under constraints: the role of open innovation in Ghana‘, Industry and Innovation