GlobalDev has partnered with the 2024 Oxford Forum for International Development to launch a special series on Conflict and Development. This series aims to scrutinize current manifestations of conflict, mechanisms of post-conflict reconstruction, and the roles of policy, diplomacy, and humanitarian endeavors in fostering resilience and rebuilding communities.

We invite you to draw upon both your research and the research you have access to, to write a blog article on the topic of conflict and development. Blog posts should be around 800 words with a focus on any of the following key points (the list is indicative and not exhaustive):

• Conflict-sensitive development approaches
• Peacebuilding and reconciliation efforts
• Humanitarian assistance in conflict zones
• Economic recovery and development in post-conflict settings
• Gender dynamics in conflict and development
• Environmental degradation and conflict
• The role of technology in conflict prevention and resolution
• Indigenous perspectives on conflict and development
• Youth engagement and empowerment in conflict-affected areas

GlobalDev looks for accessible contributions that make use of existing research to shed light on some of the most urgent policy challenges facing the world today. We do not publish extended abstracts of single research publications or highly technical content, and we very rarely accept op-ed styled contributions. We ask you to discuss and hyperlink as many research sources as appropriate to illuminate the policy challenge you decide to frame your contribution around.

Please read our style guide carefully before writing, and submit your article through our ‘Write for Us’ page. All questions should be submitted to editors.globaldevblog@gdn.int.

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For research donors interested in international development, recent years have been packed with interesting discussions about how funding could or should change. What is interesting here is the idea that changing the way funding works can have an effect on equity, on opportunity, and indeed on research impact. In other words, many of these discussions contend that research funding could work much better to address development needs. To contribute to this debate, GlobalDev is partnering with the UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR). We’re seeking to bring to the fore the critical knowledge that researchers and funders have generated on funding approaches in recent years. We hope to share existing evidence and evidence-informed opinions on this niche topic, to further illuminate the practice of donors of all kinds (international, national, private and public). We are open to contributions from both research funders and researchers. If you have additional questions you would like to ask (and answer), please write to us.

There are several areas of contention surrounding research funding approaches. To start with, research funders care increasingly about research impact on development policy and practice. Impact, however, is itself a topic of research, with no clear benchmark for how to use it in research funding decisions (which, by definition, happen before any impact is even foreseeable). What is the emphasis on impact doing to the research funding landscape? 

Another area of debate is how close funders should be to the realities their funding aims to illuminate, and how flexible they should be to account for developments on the ground. Can a balance be struck between ambition, scope and a good knowledge of local systems? How is the imperative of closeness to the development setting likely to affect the research funding landscape?

Much debate also continues on who development research funding is really meant for. Large Northern research funders often make it a condition for the funding to be managed by their own national institutions, and ‘helicopter research’ remains common. Most often, researchers in in low- and middle-income countries (irrespective of their qualifications and capacity) are still cornered in the subsidiary role of ‘local partners’ or targeted by ‘capacity building’ budgets. Is there a ‘nationalism’ in the development of research funding practices, and how does it affect research?

Finally, much of the research funded by international donors ends up behind paywalls, with so-called developed country[1] researchers being able to access it much more easily than anyone else. Can the increasing pressure to seriously pursue open-access policies help tackle the systemic inequities in development research?

Here, we’ve outlined just some of the complexities and controversies that arise around research funding approaches. Drawing on their own experience, we invite researchers and research funders to write a blog about the impact of funding approaches on research. Blog posts should be around 800 words with a focus on any of the following key points (the list is indicative and not exhaustive):

1. How, if at all, does an emphasis on research impact affect what research gets funded?

2. To what extent are so-called developing country[2] researchers involved in the funding process and can this be improved upon?

3. As a researcher or funder, can you envision a mechanism for making research funding less fragmented?

4. How can funding approaches better support so-called developing country researchers and help build a more equitable research landscape?

[1] So-called developed countries refer to high-income economies that a GNI per capita of $13,846 or more in 2022

[2] So called developing countries refer to low- and middle-income countries with a GNI per capita of $13,845 and less in 2022

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To contribute to this debate, GlobalDev is partnering with the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII) and LUCCC/START. We seek to bring to the fore not so much advocacy positions or policy options, but the sound and critical knowledge researchers have generated on all questions of climate finance, with the goal to illuminate foreseeable policy deliberation and ongoing public debates with the best possible evidence.

We invite you to draw on both your research and the research you have access to, to write a blog about the topic of funding mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage. Blog posts should be around 800 words with a focus on any of the following key points (the list is indicative and not exhaustive):

• Are the climate finance negotiations structured in a constructive way? What is impeding success and how can the process be improved?
• Does financing mitigation differ from financing adaptation? In what ways and with what implications?
• Can the climate finance gap be estimated? What are the different ways to do so, with what implications?   

• What are the possible timeframes for climate finance?
• What role is the private sector playing within climate finance? What further role can it play?
• How can access to climate finance be improved for vulnerable communities and countries?

• How does the global debate on climate finance look from the LDCs’ standpoint? 
• What are innovative sources for climate, and loss and damage, finance and how can they be accessed?
• How can loss and damage finance reach scale without decreasing climate finance?
• How do climate and loss and damage finance differ and what do they have in common? 
• What are ways to count finance for loss and damage finance?

GlobalDev looks for accessible contributions that make use of existing research to throw light on some of the most urgent policy challenges facing the world today. We do not publish extended abstracts of single research publications, highly technical content, or op-ed styled contributions. We ask you to discuss and hyperlink as many research sources as appropriate to illuminate the policy challenge you decide to frame your contribution around.

This blog series is organized in partnership with UNU-EHS and LUCCC/START. 

Drafts will be reviewed by a dedicated editorial panel comprising of GlobalDev’s Founding Editors and Sönke Kreft, Chief Climate Risk Strategist at UNU-EHS and Executive Director at MCII. 

Arianna Flores Corral, Communications Analyst at UNU-EHS, and Magdalena Mirwald, Project Associate at UNU-EHS and MCII will join the GlobalDev editorial team for the coordination of the debate.

Please read our style guide before writing and submit your article through our ‘Write for Us’ page. All questions should be submitted to editors.globaldevblog@gdn.int. 

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August 5, 2020. It is 8am and the streets of Beirut are filled with thousands of young people. No, it’s not a festival, a rave party or anything of that sort. In fact, it looks nothing like it. Under the summer heat, I walk silently, in dismay, among the rubble, hearing only the piercing sounds of car alarms and broken glass being pushed into metal shovels. Yesterday, my city witnessed the largest non-nuclear blast in history.

No one is talking, everyone is in shock. But the youth of Lebanon, the same people who had taken over the streets earlier in the year, have spontaneously returned to those streets, armed with shovels and brushes, to clean up the city and help the victims and displaced. Within a few days, before the authorities even venture into the field to assess the damage, young volunteers have already cleared the main streets from rubble, and the reconstruction process can begin.

It was clear to me then, and in the months that followed, that young people would be the drivers of my country’s future. But they also turned out to be among the main victims of the social, political, and economic crises that the country is going through. Youth unemployment rates reached 47.8% in May 2022, and the youth emigration rate is at an all-time high.

It is undeniable that the Greta Thunbergs and Malalas, but also all the young unnamed heroes, activists, and engaged citizens of the planet have an important role to play in determining the future of the world in which we live. But they are also often among the main victims of crises.

As the world celebrated International Youth Day earlier this month, the GlobalDev team decided to reflect on the challenges but also the strength of young people in today’s developing countries. Here is what we have learned from our authors.

The scourge of unemployment is not exclusive to Lebanese youth. Indeed, a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) asserts that the pandemic has hurt young people more than any other age group. The global number of unemployed youth is estimated to reach 73 million in 2022 – six million above the pre-pandemic level of 2019.

In their article, Skill certification for better job matches: evidence from South Africa, Eliana Carranza and her colleagues explore skill assessment and certification as a way to increase employment and earnings among the 15-24 age group. As they explain, high unemployment may be partly driven by what economists call ‘information frictions: ‘mistakes in either firms’ hiring decisions or work seekers’ search decisions due to limited information about the skills of the latter.’

The researchers conducted an experiment on a group of work seekers. ‘Over two days, participants completed six assessments of their numeracy, communication (verbal and written), grit, focus, and planning skills.’ Those who received a certificate and used it in their job applications saw a five percentage points increase in their employment rate compared with the control group. Certification also increased their earning of 34% compared with the control group.

The authors conclude that while there remain other barriers to employment, skill assessment and certification offer an effective and cheap policy to increase employment among youth.

Skill certification for better job matches: evidence from South Africa

Simon Franklin examines a different way to increase employment in his article Getting unemployed urban youth into work with transport subsidies. He shows a causal link between the costs of transport required to look for a job and individual employment outcomes.

Franklin focuses his study on the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, in which formal job offers are advertised on physical boards at three locations in the city center. He finds that over time, as young people run out of cash and can’t afford transport costs to the city center, they get discouraged and decrease their search efforts.

Franklin calls for policies reducing the costs of finding work and supporting the unemployed throughout their search. He highlights the importance of online tools in job searches as well as the ‘importance of encouraging denser, affordable urban housing, so that economically disadvantaged jobseekers can live closer to jobs and thus have better access to opportunities in growing cities.’

Getting unemployed urban youth into work with transport subsidies

While some young people end up finding a job, others get discouraged and prefer to leave their homeland seeking better opportunities in more developed countries. In their article, David McKenzie and his colleagues tell us about the intentions of Gambian youth to migrate to Europe and the effects of Covid-19 on their decisions.

As they explain, ‘expanding youth populations, lack of economic opportunity, political instability, and conflict have all contributed to the growth of irregular migration from Africa to Europe over the last decade.’ After a coup in 1994, Gambia became the African country with the highest incidence of illegal migration relative to the population.

But the pandemic dissuaded some from leaving. According to the study, 30.6% of the respondents were less likely to want to migrate. Nonetheless, ‘the desire to migrate to Europe remains incredibly high among these young men, with 65% saying they are likely or very likely to try to migrate, and 58% saying that they would consider (illegal routes).’

The authors call for actions to explore options that would ‘open more legal avenues for migration to Europe, given (the) high demand’ as well as ‘to experiment with different approaches to reducing the demand to migrate irregularly.’

Intentions of Gambian youth to migrate to Europe: effects of Covid-19

At the same time, it is important that there are incentives for young people to stay as they can play a key role in the development of their own countries. In an article on The role of youth in transforming food systems in Africa, Olga Mapanje and Rodney Kurai Mushongachiware argue that as agricultural solutions increasingly lie in digitalization, automation, and artificial intelligence, tech-savvy youth need to play a role in transforming food systems in Africa.

As they explain, the majority of youth in African countries are based in rural areas, making them more familiar, through family subsistence farming and the educational curriculum, to the agricultural sector. In addition, with more than 40% of the population aged between 15 and 34 in several sub-Saharan countries in Africa, most agricultural interventions are targeting youth to increase their participation in agricultural and economic development.

Nonetheless, agricultural production in the African continent remains low compared with the rest of the world, even more so due to climate change and the limited adoption of modern technologies. Moreover, as Mapanje and her colleague explain, young people ‘tend to farm on smaller pieces of land, preferring shorter seasons and high-value farm enterprises, such as horticultural production, poultry, bee-keeping, and rabbit rearing.’

For these reasons, they call on African policy-makers to incorporate youth aspirations in future endeavors and interventions in the agricultural sector as well as to ‘address the challenges associated with access to resources, such as land and credit.’

The role of youth in transforming food systems in Africa

At GlobalDev, we are encouraging young researchers to take the opportunity to share their knowledge and perspective on development issues. You can find their articles in our youth section.

Are you interested in writing for GlobalDev? Please read our one pager and style guide and send us your proposal at editors.globaldevblog@gdn.int.

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Whether or not we pay taxes – for what, when, and where, how much we pay, why, how willingly and sustainably, how taxes are used, contested, managed, and negotiated, and how taxation evolves – all these aspects (and more) speak directly to the kind of society in which we live, our respective places within them and vis-à-vis others, our basic allegiances and values, and possible alternatives to the status quo.

Research on taxation offers broad scope for lateral thinking on development questions. Spanning the social sciences and cutting across policy domains, researching taxation can mean focusing on governance, growth, redistribution, and equity – but also on citizenship, on responsibility and, ultimately, on the social contract.

GlobalDev joins partners for  the 2022 World Conference on Development, titled “Tax Policy for Sustainable Development” to lead a new debate on taxation in development policy. The initiative will be organized in advance and offered as an accompaniment to the in-person event which will take place in Clermont-Ferrand, France, from November 2 to 4, 2022.

You are invited to write 800 words with a focus on any area of taxation research that intersects with major challenges of development policy. Contributions from across the social sciences are encouraged, including (but not limited to) law, economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and management.

Please read our one pager and style guide before writing and send us your article at editors.globaldevblog@gdn.int. We accept submissions in English and translate all published content into Spanish and French. Social media posts are also published in Arabic.

GlobalDev looks for accessible contributions that make use of existing research to throw light on some of the most urgent policy challenges facing the world today. We do not publish extended abstracts of single research publications, or highly technical content. If your first draft focuses mainly on one publication, we invite you to rethink it and write instead a piece about what you know, from existing quality research, about the policy challenge you are interested in. You are welcome to hyperlink as many research sources as you like in the text.

This series is organized in partnership with CERDI, UCA, FERDI, and the conference team at GDN.

A special editorial panel will review submissions to this GlobalDev debate. The guest editors for this series are Grégoire Rota-Graziosi, director of the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International (CERDI), University Clermont Auvergne, and Anne-Marie Geourjon, program manager at FERDI, associate researcher at CERDI-Université Clermont Auvergne and an expert for the International Monetary Fund in tax policy and customs administration. They will join GlobalDev’s founding editors Rabah Arezki, Pierre Jacquet, and Francesco Obino.

For more information on the 2022 Global Development Conference ‘Tax Policy for Sustainable Development’, check the homepage of GDN.

This page was updated on September 22, 2022.

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In the small city of Avignon in the south of France, the sky turns orange pink with grey tints. It looks like the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen, but it’s still too early for the sun to be going down. As I cross the bridge, under the summer heat, feeling the salty taste of sweat running across my lips, I turn my head to the right, then to the left: on both sides, huge clouds of smoke are finding their way into the sky.

The forests surrounding Avignon are burning. As I walk into the city, ashes start falling from the sky like snow. My stomach ties up in knots: climate change never felt so real – and it never felt more frightening.

As Avignon and many other cities around the world are experiencing record high temperatures – forcing some to change their summer habits and others to leave their homes – GlobalDev is focusing on a topic that doesn’t make the news often enough: climate migration.

Climate migrants are people who have been forced to leave their homes because of environmental disruptions. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that since 2008, an average of 21.5 million people per year have been forcibly displaced by events related to climate, such as floods, storms, wildfires or extreme temperatures. This number is not expected to fall, and the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) predicts that 1.2 billion people could be displaced globally by 2050 due to climate change and natural disasters. Here is what our authors have taught us about climate migration.

In his article, Sensible migration policy for a climate-disrupted world, Robert McLeman explains that while we have enough data to give us certainty about the future of climate migration, most governments choose to do nothing about the increasing risk of millions of people migrating for climate-related reasons.

As he explains, we have the scientific knowledge to understand and predict the phenomena that climate change will cause, we know the locations most at risk of experiencing the worst effects, and we know how many people live there and how many more will be living there when the worst effects hit.

We also know that ‘without immediate action to reverse the underlying drivers of climate change, the physical impacts will accelerate and become much worse within the next 50 years if we’re lucky, the next 20 years if we’re not.’ Yet governments stay inactive.

McLeman calls for immediate action and gives several recommendations. Most importantly, he urges governments to make the transition to a low-carbon economy as quickly as possible.

He also calls for loosening migration policies to allow people living in high-risk areas to migrate with dignity. Governments should stop treating migrants as threats to sovereignty and security, he argues: indeed, as research shows, environmental migrants integrate easily into their host countries.

Sensible migration policy for a climate-disrupted world

In their article, Rising temperatures: the impact on employment and migration in rural Mexico, Katrina Jessoe and her colleagues perfectly illustrate the predictions that McLeman mentions with the example of Mexico.

The number of extremely hot days in rural parts of the country is rising, and it will continue to do so. Analyzing nearly 30 years of nationally representative household survey data, the authors find that extreme heat reduces the probability of local work in many Mexican regions. As a result, some local workers, mainly farmers, have been migrating, either to urban areas of the country or to the United States.

The authors use these data to project changes in rural employment. They find that ‘under a moderate emissions scenario, there is a decrease in local employment of up to 1.4% and an increase in migration to other parts of Mexico and to the United States of up to 1.4% and 0.25%, respectively.’ Poorer households will suffer most from these changes since ‘their local employment opportunities are most sensitive to extreme heat.’

Rising temperatures: the impact on employment and migration in rural Mexico

Poor households are also most at risk in cities hosting climate migrants from rural areas. In his article, Food security in megacities: climate migration and informal food systems, Mohammad Moniruzzaman explains that climate migration leads to growing urbanization, which in turn increases the risk of food insecurity among the urban poor.

He cites the example of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, which each year receives half a million migrants moving from coastal and rural areas. These displacements, mostly caused by weather-related events, shift the problem of food insecurity from rural to urban areas.

Moniruzzaman explains that in Dhaka, climate-induced events disrupt the formal food supply chain. Informal food systems, which are more resilient, are what keep the city running during disasters. Moreover, informal markets are more accessible and affordable to the urban poor: one study shows that in Dhaka, ‘every second city dweller depends on these informal markets for their food procurement.’

Moniruzzaman calls on governments of megacities like Dhaka to consider informal provisioning as part of the solution to reduce food insecurity and to integrate informal food systems into the urban food system.

Food security in megacities: climate migration and informal food systems

New research and resources on climate migration

You can navigate additional resources on migration research from the Global Development Network’s (GDN) wider work:

• A call for proposals is currently open for multidisciplinary teams interested in the topic  ‘Integrated Approaches to Migration/Mobility in an Era of Rapid Global Change’. This is a Collaborative Research Action by the Belmont Forum, in partnership with FutureEarth, the National Science Foundation of South Africa and GDN. Deadline: 12 August2022.
• GDN has been collecting the experience of researchers working on migration, with a focus on different research methods. The ‘Deep Dive’ videos are available on GDN’s YouTube Channel.
• Browse further featured studies on migration from our network.

And if you are a researcher interested in writing about climate migration (or other topics related to development and the environment) for GlobalDev, please read our one pager and style guide and send us your proposal at editors.globaldevblog@gdn.int.

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According to the World Health Organization, one in eight people or 970 million people around the world were living with a mental disorder in 2019. This number rose dramatically during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic with an increase of 25% in anxiety and depression. Yet relatively little attention is given by development practitioners to mental health. At GlobalDev, we decided to highlight the interactions of mental health and development with a series of columns on the topic. Here is what we have learned so far. 

As Marc Rockmore and colleagues put it in their piece Mental health challenges of development and the environment, “mental health disorders are a first order development concern.” Not only does mental illness lead to direct costs in general health, but it has also been shown that mental health disorders have an important impact on careers, labor markets, and earnings. 

The authors explain that early life exposure to substantial shocks are not an exclusive cause of adult mental health problems. In fact, research finds that events such as income fluctuations and climatic variations can also be a cause of mental disorders.

Mental health challenges of development and the environment

Similarly, in his article on Mental health and the Sustainable Development Goals, Crick Lund explains that depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, and schizophrenia are socially determined and hence treating them without tackling the environment that causes them could be counter-productive. As he puts it, “why treat people only to send them back to the circumstances that made them sick in the first place?”

Lund calls for an integrated development agenda using mental health both as a means and a goal of international development. He illustrates this need as follows: “reduction of gender-based violence, cash transfers, housing improvements, improved education, and early responses to humanitarian emergencies all carry mental health benefits – and their impact and sustainability could potentially be enhanced with integrated mental health interventions.”

Mental health and the Sustainable Development Goals

Another major factor affecting mental health is exposure to conflict. In her article Evidence-based mental health interventions in post-conflict countries, Theresa Betancourt suggests using education and employment training programs as potential delivery platforms for mental health services. 

As she explains, one in six children live in countries affected by conflict – which can have grave consequences for their mental health, increasing the risk of depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic disorders. In addition, while conflict deepens the need for healthcare, it also wrecks healthcare infrastructure, leaving a majority of individuals suffering from mental disorders untreated. Hence, “integration of evidence-based mental health interventions into innovative delivery platforms such as youth educational, employment and entrepreneurship programs may be key to supporting young people’s daily functioning and interpersonal relationship.”

Evidence-based mental health interventions in post-conflict countries

We cannot mention mental health without talking about the pandemic. As mentioned earlier, during the first year of the pandemic, there was a 25% increase in cases of anxiety and depression. 

In their article, Mental health costs of lockdowns: evidence from curfews in Turkey, Onur Altindag and colleagues show that in the short run, restricted mobility led to a considerable decline in mental health through social and physical isolation, especially among the most vulnerable populations. 

Mental health costs of lockdowns: evidence from curfews in Turkey

The decline in mental health during the pandemic was also mentioned in several of our articles tackling food insecurity during Covid-19, resilience through the pandemic and the ways in which southern think-tanks have responded to the challenges linked to this period. 

Are you a researcher interested in writing about mental health and development for GlobalDev? Read our one pager and style guide and send us your proposal at editors.globaldevblog@gdn.int.

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Social mobility designates the movement of individuals or families to a better socioeconomic position, and it is considered to be the hope of economic development. However, this phenomenon has been understudied in developing countries leading to a real knowledge gap concerning social mobility in these regions.

GlobalDev now partners with UNU-WIDER to invite you to write a blog about social mobility. You are invited to write 800 words with a focus on any of the following key questions (the list is indicative and not exhaustive):

1. What do we know about social mobility in income, education, and occupation in developing countries? To what extent can we trust the evidence, and what else is missing? 
2. What are the data constraints for understanding social mobility in developing countries? Given the data constraints, are their alternate ways we can learn more? Going forward, what data should governments, national data agencies, funders, and researchers collect for us to understand mobility better?
3. Has social mobility among disadvantaged groups (by race, caste, ethnicity, gender) within developing countries improved over the years?
4. What policies can help improve social mobility in education, occupation, and income? What evidence do we have that these policies work? 
5. How strong is the role of the mother’s characteristics in the mobility of daughters and sons? 

Please read our one pager and style guide before writing and send us your article at editors.globaldevblog@gdn.int. 

GlobalDev looks for accessible contributions that make use of existing research to throw light on some of the most urgent policy challenges facing the world today. We do not publish extended abstracts of single research publications, or highly technical content. You are welcome to hyperlink as many research sources as you like in the text.

This blog series is organized in partnership with UNU- WIDER. Rahul Lahoti, Research Associate at UNU-WIDER, and Timothy Shipp, Communications Associate at UNU-WIDER will join the editorial panel as GlobalDev guest editors for this series.

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Are you a researcher interested in Biodiversity? GlobalDev is inviting you to write about biodiversity and development!

Please read our one pager and style guide before writing and send us your article at editors.globaldevblog@gdn.int.

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Your blog post can focus on any of the following areas (the list is indicative and not exhaustive):

• Global picture: ODA, sustainable development, SDGs, anthropological and technological revolution, decision making in a complex world, digital revolution, knowledge revolution, etc. • Climate and energy transition: Energy, climate change

• Territorial and ecological transition: urban development, environmental degradation, natural resource management in all sectors, biodiversity mainstreaming, actions for sustainable living

• Demographic and social transition: demographic trends, migration, gender issues, poverty, inequality, education, health, the future of work, cultural issues, vulnerability and fragility, conflict prevention

• Economic and financial transition: growth, development finance, trade, structural transformations

• Political and civic transition: governance, corruption, political regimes, political participation

• Methodological issues: development measurements, concept of transition, measures of wellbeing, prospective

• Emerging approaches: Sustainability science or Sustainability Transitions Research

Please read our one pager and style guide before writing and send us your article at editors.globaldevblog@gdn.int.

This blog series is organized in partnership with the Transition in the Global South initiative. Dr. Bipashyee Ghosh, Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, will be joining the review panel for this series as a guest editor. The series is a prolongation of a video contest launched by the Agence Française de Developpement (AFD) and the Global Development Network (GDN) in 2021. 

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