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Blog your job market paper 2024: submissions now open - our 14th year of publishing posts by PhD students on the development job market (submissions due Nov 6) blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

⏰ HAPPENING NOW: Experts are discussing the rise and fall of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) at a #CGDtalks event. Ft ➡ Mark Lowcock, Ranil Dissanayake, Stephan Klingebiel, Nilima Gulrajani, & Mikaela Gavas. Tune in live! ⬇ bit.ly/47SOrSZ

Brilliant that Jim Robinson, Nobel prize Econ 2024, and passionate researcher on Africa, has just agreed to give the keynote at our Annual Conference 23-25 March 2025 in Oxford. Registration to open in November. Watch this space!

🚨 🚨 🚨 We are looking for someone great to lead a new program focused on accelerating economic growth in developing countries.🚨 🚨 🚨 If we find the right person, they'll oversee at least $30M of spending over the next few years. Here's why we think this is a great bet:

Is the Global Fund eating the World Bank? Great series of visuals from my colleagues @clemencelanders Janeen Madan Keller et al on the stiff competition for scarce foreign aid dollars, as several big multilateral agencies fundraise simultaneously. cgdev.org/media/2024-202…

I took time off from this Mozambique election, to keep my mental sanity. In my retreat, I expected any type of breaking news - except this one. When I got a text in the dawn, about the assassination, my brain was too tired to follow it up. This morning, when I woke up, the

I've begun linking these on the clear-skies app rather than here. Follow me there if you want to get them immediately (scepticalranil etc and so on)

Ummm… what? Someone needs to get to number 10 and give them an MDB 101 course

This man is ridiculous.

BSG is definitely my favourite building in Oxford Blavatnik School of Government

Ahead of the Budget, Patrick Wintour, Ranil Dissanayake, David Lubin and Olivia O'Sullivan join me to discuss the high debt levels facing Western economies. Can we afford our foreign policies? Listen in full🔽 x.com/ChathamHouse/s…

Here's the 3 year chart for 10 year gilt yeilds. See if you can see the difference between what happened with the Truss budget and what's happening now. Not difficult.

This was a lot of fun. Patrick Wintour describes how the UK has “shot itself in both feet and then the head” on development; and I question whether the meagre saving is worth the human cost of the Chancellor’s decision not to backstop the aid budget against rising refugee costs.

Podcast🎙️| Will debt constrain Western foreign policy? Patrick Wintour and Ranil Dissanayake join Bronwen Maddox, David Lubin and Olivia O'Sullivan to discuss the risks facing G7 economies. 🟣apple.co/4fBhcpZ 🟢spoti.fi/3NFYgtY

I don’t want to exaggerate but JJ Redick becoming a coach may be the greatest career change since Einstein quit his clerical job at the patent office.

Black Box Diaries is now showing in UK cinemas - a brave and powerful film from Shiori Ito that challenges us to improve how women are treated in our justice systems #BlackBoxDiaries

Donors have embraced the idea of #localization, but implementation has proven to be trickier. Ranil Dissanayake sets out why this is, and what we can do about it.🔍⬇️ bit.ly/3C3Muar

I love Messi, but Diego was the greatest player I've ever seen. I still remember watching him play for Napoli in the late '80s, when I was 7 or so years old. Even at that age I knew he was something out of the ordinary.

director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Paul Johnson tells Times Radio: "I’m afraid I have absolutely no sympathy with their arguments on inheritance tax and the impact on family farms and agriculture. This is special pleading by some extremely wealthy people. Very few