Amir Lebdioui delivered a speech at the UN as part of the Financing for Development Dialogues, which brought together think tanks, universities, research networks and other academic stakeholders to discuss evidence-based solutions to the most pressing issues for the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Ibrahim Bangura is a 2024-25 AfOx Visiting Fellow with ODID under the mentorship of Dr John Gledhill. Dr Bangura is an Associate Professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. 

In the latest Young Lives Podcast, Country Director Alula Pankhurst launches the study’s latest wave of qualitative research in Ethiopia, exploring young people’s experiences and resilience through the multiple crises of recent years.

Xiaolan Fu was interviewed for a feature in the New York Times on how AI will transform the global economy.

In El Comercio, Sabina Alkire (Director of OPHI) and Diego Zavaleta (UNDP) highlight how multidimensional poverty data is critical to complement monetary poverty measurement for better evidence-based decisions.

The latest ODID blog focuses on issue 74 of Forced Migration Review, which explores how displacement response is financed and the implications for forcibly displaced people and host communities.

In a new article for VoxDev, Olivier Sterck writes with Antonia Delius (DPhil Student in Economics, University of Oxford) on how businesses can profiteer from humanitarian cash transfers through price hikes.

Alexander Betts (2024) Social Science: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press.

Amogh Dhar Sharma (2024) The Backstage of Democracy: India’s Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them, Cambridge University Press.

ESCWA, Ministry of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation, Ministry of Social Solidarity, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) (2024) Multidimensional poverty in Egypt: An in-depth analysis. E/ESCWA/CL2.GPID/2023/TP.8/Rev.1. Beirut.

Weishen Zeng (2024) ‘Towards growth-driven environmentalism: The green energy transition and local state in China’, Energy Research & Social Science, 117, 103726

Alexander Betts spoke on ‘Authoritarian Sanctuaries: Refugee Politics in East Africa’ as part of the Cutting Edge Issues in Development Thinking & Practice guest lecture series hosted by the International Development Department at LSE.