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| 2nd Issue November 2021 |
| Editorial |
| As 2021 is coming to a close, we wrap up our series of activities this year with our fourth development research communications workshop taking place today, and our third workshop for coordinators of Development Studies programmes next week. If you’re interested in green finance mechanisms, we strongly recommend watching our latest virtual dialogue which critically discusses the expansion of green bonds to the South. Today’s blog sheds the light on ways to decolonise the university, and our thematic focus is on tax and taxation, together with a special issue on degrowth. And, as usual, we’ve put together publication picks, calls, vacancies and blogs further below. |
| From our Blog: Decolonising the University |
| Decolonising the university: between hope and necessity »Where they are indeed part of the institution, women and ethnicised individuals within the institution are often considered “exotic tokens” to showcase the university’s diversity », writes Gaya Raddadi in our latest blog post: « they suddenly also become natural experts on their identity issue-area and are subject to intellectual casting. They are also subject to a rigid control of their lived spatiality: their physical appearances, their tone of voice, etc. » Therefore, she calls for an « active engagement in creating inclusive, anti-racist, anti-sexist spaces is taken alongside “diversity and inclusion” agendas. » Read the post |
| Latest EADI Virtual Dialogue: Green Bonds in the South |
| If you haven’t had the chance to attend our latest virtual dialogue, watch it now on our YouTube channel: Tomaso Ferrando from the Institute of Development Policy (IOB) provides a multi-disciplinary and critical overview of green bonds as socio-legal financial constructions that risk to reproduce historical patterns on uneven development and crystallize a vision of the South as a spatial and temporal fix for systemic problems mainly produced in the North. Watch the video |
| EJDR: New Issue out with Several Open Access Articles |
| The December issue of our journal, the European Journal of Development Research (EJDR) is out! Here are some of its open access arcticles:Needs and Satisfiers: A Tool for Dealing with Perspectivity in Policy Analysis ReadEmployment Responses to EU Food Safety Regulations: A Gendered Perspective ReadSmall Towns and Land Reform in Zimbabwe ReadDeterminants of Small-Scale Farmers’ Intention to Use Smartphones for Generating Agricultural Knowledge in Developing Countries: Evidence from Rural India Read |
| Featured EADI Member: ISS |
| The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague, The Netherlands, is an international graduate school of policy-oriented critical social science founded in 1952. It brings together students and teachers from the Global South and the North in a European environment and aims to promote social justice and equity on a global level. In its Research InSightS format, the institute shares a selection of its latest research findings in engaging bite-sized formats. Read more |
| Systemic action for refugeesOn 6 December, 15.00-17.00, the ISS invites you to its second Research InSightS (hybrid) live event on « Seeking systemic action for refugees and migrants ». The focus of this event will be on systemic action for the protection of the most vulnerable, whether refugees in camps, migrants on the move, or (undocumented) migrants closer to home. We will look at this issue from several perspectives and roles: civil society, policy and research. How can these different actors contribute to more durable solutions for people on the move? Read more and register |
| Highlight: Special Issue on Degrowth |
| Under the theme ‘Caring Communities for Radical Change’, the 8th International Degrowth Conference brought together nearly 900 activists, academics and artists at ISS to discuss how to confront the contradictions between endless economic growth and the ecological boundaries of our planet. The latest DevISSues, a regular ISS publication, summarises some of the discussions, such as bringing together degrowth and decoloniality and green new deals beyond growth. Read more |
| Thematic focus: Tax and Taxation |
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| The EU List of Tax Havens: Progress and Challenges2021/11 – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM); research paper; Author(s): Pamella Ahairwe, San Bilal Financial Development and Small Firms’ Tax Compliance in Sub‐Saharan Africa2021/11 – United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT); research paper; Author(s): Racky Balde Assessing the Equity and Redistributive Effects of Taxation Reforms in Nigeria2021/11 – Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton; research paper; Author(s): Henry C. Edeh How Financial Sector Development Improve Tax Revenue Mobilization for Developing Countries? 2021/09 – Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI); research paper; Author(s): Aguima Aime Bernard LompoTax Effort Revisited: New Estimates From the Government Revenue Dataset 2021/11 – United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER); WIDER Working Paper 2021/170; Author(s): Kyle McNabb, Michael Danquah & Abrahms M.E. Tagem Lobbying and the Shaping of Tax Policies in Tanzania2021/11 – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI); research paper; Author(s): Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Lise Rakner Carbon Taxation and Inflation: Evidence From the European and Canadian Experience 2021/08 – Graduate Institute (IHEID); research paper; Author(s): Maximilan Konradt, Beatrice Weder die Mauro Trade Liberalisation and Taxation2021/08 – Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI); Author(s): Rabah Arezki, Alou Adesse Dama, Grégoire Rota-Graziosi |
| More publications on taxation |
| Premium Members Publication Picks |
| How African Countries Respond to Fake News and Hate Speech 2021/11 – Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI); Information, Communication & Society; Author(s): LIsa Garbe, Lisa-Marie Selvik, Pauline Lemaire Gender Gaps in Education: Evidence and Policy Implications 2021/11 – Graduate Institute (IHEID); research paper; Author(s): Martina Viarengo Working Like Machines: Exploring Effects of Technological Change on Migrant Labour in Dutch Horticulture 2021/11 – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS); research paper; Author(s): Karin Astrid Siegemann, Petar Ivosevic, Oane Visser Chinese-Funded Electricity Generation in Sub-Saharan Africa and Implications for Public Debt and Transition to Renewable Energy 2021/11 – Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton; research paper; Author(s): Seife Ayele, Vianney MutyabaCôte d’Ivoire’s Electricity Challenge in 2050: Reconciling Economic Development and Climate Commitments 2021/11 – Agence Française de Développement (AFD); research paper; Author(s): Edi Assoumou, Florent Mc Isaac Connecting African Markets and People: Streamlining Regional Trade and Free Movement Protocols 2021/11 – European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM); research paper; Author(s): Amanda Bisong, Philomena Apiko, Bruce Byiers Politics of Seed in Ethiopia’s Agricultural Transformation: Pathways to Seed System Development 2021/11 – Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Noragric); Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems; Author(s): Teshome Hunduma Mulesa |
| Read more about EADI Members |
| CallsCall for Papers: Troisième conférence internationale sur la Francophonie économique Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique pour l’Étude de la Mondialisation et du Développement (GEMDEV); Deadline: 15 December Call for Papers: International Conference « Iraq Twenty Years After the US Invasion: Memory Politics, Governance and Protests », Iraq Conference 2023 German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA); Deadline: 20 January 2022 Call for Papers: Temps de crise : un espace pour réfléchir sur l’immigration et sur la diversité culturelle Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique pour l’Étude de la Mondialisation et du Développement (GEMDEV); Deadline: 23 January 2022 Call for Proposals: Social Protection, Taxation, and Crises United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER); Deadline: 31 January More calls on the EADI websiteJobsResearch Associate United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER); Deadline: 6 December Associate Professor of International Development Studies and Climate Change International Development Studies, University of Utrecht; Research School for Resource Studies for Development (CERES); Deadline: 18 December Assistant Professor of Empirical Macroeconomics Graduate Institute (IHEID); Deadline: 31 December Assistant Professor of Comparative and International Education and the New Bildung Graduate Institute (IHEID); Deadline: 15 Janurary Associate/Assistant Professor of Transnational Mobilities and Migration Graduate Institute (IHEID); Deadline: 15 January More jobs on the EADI WebsiteOpinionsBlog: The Challenge of Securing Access to Minerals for the Green Transition 2021/11 – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS); blog post; Author(s): Jewellord Nem Singh Opinion: Living With Co-Located Hazards: Reimagining Preparedness Under Climate Extremes 2021/11 – Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton; Author(s): Shilpi Srivastava, Lyla Mehta et al. Blog: Tackling Loss and Damage: Who Is Most Vulnerable to Disaster Displacement? 2021/11 – International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); blog post; Author(s): Simon Addison & Sam Barrett Blog: Taking Stock of Glasgow’s COP26 2021/11 – Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI); blog post; Author(s): Lola Vallejo Blog: Engaging Central Banks in Climate Change? 2021/11 – OECD Development Centre (OECD/DC); blog post; Author(s): Dongyang Pan, Raimund Bleischwitz Blog: Political Innovations for Rapid Transition—a Conversation 2021/11 – Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP); blog post; Author(s): Steven R. Smith Blog: Toward a Postcapitalist Economics: Are Community Economies the Answer? 2021/11 – International Institute of Social Studies (ISS); blog post; Author(s): Irene van Staveren Blog: Avoiding Capitalism? The ‘Risk Turn’ in Social Protection Is a Wrong Turning 2021/11 – Global Development Institute (GDI); blog post; Author(s): Armandi Barrientos Blog: How Germany’s 2022 G7 Presidency Could Shape Change 2021/11 – German Development Institute, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE); blog post; Author(s): Adolf Kloke-Lesch Blog: Beyond “Indo-Pacific”: Understanding Small Pacific Powers on Their Own Terms 2021/11 – German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA); blog post; Author(s): Patrick Köllner Big Data for Whose Sake? Governing Migration Through Artificial Intelligence 2021/11 – Oxford Department of International Development (ODID); Humanities & Social Sciences Communications; Author(s): Tuba Bircan & Emre Eren Korkmaz Blog: Climate Change and Magical Thinking 2021/11 – Copenhagen Business School, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management (IKL); blog post; Author(s): Steen Vallentin More blogs and opinion pieces on the EADI website |
| Open Online Activities Thai Baan Webinar 26 November, 9:30 GMT; Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre, University of York Africa and India: Experiences With Transformation of Food and Agriculture and Opportunities for Earning and Collaboration 26 November, 10:.30 CET; Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF) Online Seminar: Election Assistance in Times of Democratic Backlash 26 November, 14.00 CET; Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA) Untapping Development Potential of Trade Along Global Supply Chains 30 November, 12.00 GMT; Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton « Feminine Happiness »: Sexuality and Disability in Kyrgyzstan 26 November, 14.00 CET; Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR) Sustainable Development and Inclusive Globalisation: Acting in Time of Crises to Strengthen Recovery and Building Resilience 29 November, 12.30 CET; OECD Development Centre (OECD/DC) Distributional Impacts of Cash Transfers on the Multidimensional Poverty of Refugees: The ESSN Programme in Turkey 29 November, 16.00 GMT; Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) African Food Systems and the EU Farm to Fork Strategy – (Un)intended Impacts? 30 November 15.00 CET; European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) Leased Landscapes, Temporal Deferrals: The Politics of Commercial Agriculture in Africa 30 November, 16.16 CET; Graduate Institute (IHEID) Navigating Crisis From the Margins: LGBTQIA+ Vulnerability and Resilience During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Research and Stories From the UK and Brazil. 1 December, 13.00 GMT; Global Development Institute (GDI) Enacting the International: Editing Journals in Non- Anglophone Europe 1 December, 17.00 CET; Institute of International Relations (IIR) The Changing Contestations of Deportation in the UK: Race, Humanity and Belonging 1 December, 17:30 GMT; Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) BRICs Seminar: Natalia Bracarense on Energy-Yuan 1 December, 18.00 CET; Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique pour l’Étude de la Mondialisation et du Développement (GEMDEV) Virtual Book Launch: Mark Leonard on “The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict” 1 December, 20.00 CET; Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR) Messy Masculinities : Memory and Military Masculinity During the Lebanese Civil War 2 December, 12.30 CET; Graduate Institute (IHEID) Research in Progress Seminar: Exploring Frugality and Inclusive Technological Change2 December, 13.00 CET; International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)The Inner Life of the African Peace and Security Architecture 2 December, 14.00 CET; European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) Digital Colonialism: A Discussion 2 December, 15.00 CET; Graduate Institute (IHEID) A New Global Norm on Violence Against Women 2 December, 15.00 CET; United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) Online Panel Discussion: Developing Fiscal States in Africa 2 December, 15.00 CET; United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) Sussex Development Lecture: Mining Minerals – Uncertainties Caused by Global Energy Transitions 2 December, 17.00 GMT; Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton Green Industrialisation Against “Climate Colonialism” in Africa? 2 December, 19.00 CET; Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation (VIDC) 3 December, 12.00 CET; Annual Development Lecture (Hybrid) Eco-Fascism: The Future of Right-Wing Extremism? Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Noragric) The 2021 Holberg Debate: « Identity Politics and Culture Wars » 4 December, 18.00 CET; UiB Global, University of Bergen Gender in Peacebuilding: Local Practices in Indonesia and Nigeria 6 December, 12.30 CET; Graduate Institute (IHEID) Solidarity in the EU: Does It Exist? The View From the Capitals 6 December, 15.30; Institute of International Relations (IIR) Online Event: EV Battery Supply Chains: Their Environmental and Social Impact 7 December, 12.00 CET; UiB Global, University of Bergen Hybrid Event: The Right Gays. Explaining Divergence in the Embrace of LGBTQ Rights Among Right Wing Parties in the OSCE 7 December, 15.30 CET; Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR) The Specter of State Capitalism 8 December, 12:30 GMT; Development Policy and Practice, the Open University (DPP) Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Nanjala Nyabola: African Feminism as Method 9 December, 16.00 CET; African Studies Centre (ASC) Online Lecture: Women’s Struggle for Land in South Asia: Can Legal Reforms Trump Social Norms? 9 December, 16.00 EET; United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) More online offers by members on the EADI Website |