Publications

• Arash Beidollahkhani published ‘Regulating female embodiment as disciplining citizens: the biopolitics of Islamic governance in Iran and Afghanistan’ in the International Journal of Cultural Policy.
• PGR Armando Caroca published ‘The monster has landed: Shifting land tenure regimes and the political ecology of a Chilean mining “wasteland”’ in Geoforum.
• Carolin Dieterle published ‘When ‘best practice’ means formalising: foreign large-scale land investments on customary tenure in Uganda and Sierra Leone’ in Review of International Political Economy.
• Tanja Müller published ‘Liminal legality and the construction of belonging: aspirations of Eritrean and Ethiopian migrants in Khartoum’ in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Blogs & media

• Structural Transformation and Late Development in the 21st Century: Is the Lewis Model Still Relevant? by Mahtab Uddin
• Digital Development and Public Perception: How to Make People Satisfied with Digital Progress? by Weiyi Zhang (on the ICT4D blog)
• Mahtab Uddin was interviewed by one of the leading business newspapers in Bangladesh, Industry Insider, about the country’s current economic situation.
• Tekle Weldemichel published an article in The Conversation – ‘Tanzania’s Maasai are being forced off their ancestral land – the tactics the government uses’.
• Pritish Behuria was interviewed by Global Finance Magazine on the economic outlook for Mauritius after the recent election in the country.
• Bina Agarwal published a tribute to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the Indian Express, 4^th January 2025.

Working papers

• Saumik Paul (with Andrew Dabalen) published “Firm Ownership Control and Management Practices, with an Update on Sub-Saharan Africa”, as IZA Discussion Paper, No. 17433 (November 2024)
• Saumik Paul published “1930-1943: Agrarian Transformation and the Famine in Bengal” as IZA Discussion Paper, No. 17432 (November 2024)

GDI Webinars and recordings

• Watch our recent GDI webinar on ‘Cybersecurity Economics for Development’ with Estefania Vergara Cobos (World Bank)
• Plural Climate Storylines to Foster Just Urban Futures with Maria Rusca (Senior Lecturer in Global Development at GDI), Marcellus Mbah (Lecturer, Manchester Institute of Education), Alice Sverdlik (Lecturer in Urban Development Planning) – Link to follow
• Navigating Crises: Turkey’s Migration Policies in the Face of Refugee Challenges and Disaster Response with Tim Jacoby (Professor, GDI) and Ibrahim Efe (Research Fellow at GDI)