Steve Gale and Steven Fondriest examine China’s shift away from infrastructure lending to the Global South and toward technology-focused investments in richer countries.
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How LSE’s MSc Health and International Development is helping me become the doctor I was never taught to be - LSE International Development From a high‑pressure civil‑war hospital in Cameroon to the classrooms of LSE, Solange Ngo Bama’s journey reveals how medical training often overlooks the lived realities of the people it aims to serve...

From a civil‑war hospital in Cameroon to LSE, MSc candidate Solange Ngo Bama learned how a disease‑centred approach can miss people’s real lives. She says LSE’s MSc Health and International Development is reshaping how she thinks about health, power and people.

#PartofLSE #Development #Health

Blind spot in India’s migration governance – a whole-of-journey approach One reason is that India’s governance architecture was not built around migrants' journeys, whether across districts or across borders

LSE ID's Harshita Sinha on the blind spot in India’s migration governance, in today's Indian Express
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Our alum Merlyn Fernandes is featured in LSE’s 130th anniversary celebrations 🎉

Merlyn (MSc Dev. Mgmt. 2022) has spent a decade advancing education equity in India and now helps nonprofits scale sustainably to support underserved communities.

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#LSE@130 #Development #PartofLSE

Is war more profitable than peace? David Keen explains A leading political economist breaks down how war can reward power and be beneficial for profits and political survival.

Is war more profitable than peace? David Keen explains for @aljazeera.com

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Ukraine’s cultural spaces are building strong foundations for anti-corruption - LSE International Development Theatres, libraries, and community art centres across Ukraine are doing serious anti-corruption work. Dr David Jackson and Sophia Anders argue that international donors should recognise and support th...

Theatres, libraries, and community art centres across Ukraine are doing serious anti-corruption work. Dr David Jackson and Sophia Anders argue that international donors should recognise and support these efforts, as they offer a route to lasting change.
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Strengthening Interdisciplinary Partnership in Gender and Development Teaching The Department of International Development is delighted to announce an exciting new teaching partnership with the Department of Gender Studies, launching in the 2026/27 academic year.

📢 New for 2026/27: A teaching partnership between
LSE ID and LSE Gender Studies
Students will access cross-department courses and teaching, strengthening interdisciplinary learning on global challenges.
Find out more 👇
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From Colonial Legacies to Livestreams – How the West continues to exploit children of the Global South - LSE International Development Recent years have seen an explosion in the number of children becoming victims of online sex abuse - yet the crisis receives a fraction of the attention it demands. MSc International Development and H...

Jack Salmon argues that online child sexual exploitation is rooted in colonial power asymmetries and calls on governments and tech companies to act with the urgency the scale of the problem requires.
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📘 Join us for the launch of a bold new book exploring alternatives to mainstream development models, from degrowth to indigenous knowledge.

📅 31 March 2026, 5–7pm
📍 LSE, CBG.1.07

Speakers: Peter Sutoris & Uma Pradhan
Discussant: Tine Hanrieder
Chair: David Lewis

Register: lnkd.in/eNveVTdE

The LSE Africa Summit 2026 is happening soon!

We warmly invite everyone to attend in person and be part of the conversation shaping Africa’s future.

📅 Date: 28–29 March 2026
📍 Location: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE, London
Register here: eshop.lse.ac.uk/product-cata...

Troubled Waters: Seaports, China, and the United States - LSE International Development Guest blogger and Strategic Advisor at Global Foresight Strategies LLC and Senior Foresight Advisor emeritus at USAID, Steve Gale argues that China has gained a major strategic and economic advantage ...

Steve Gale argues that China has gained a major strategic and economic advantage over the U.S. by expanding its global control of seaports and maritime infrastructure, posing growing trade and security risks that the U.S. is only beginning to address.
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How Honduras made cash transfers accountable at the moment that matters most - LSE International Development Executive MSc Social Business and Entrepreneurship candidate, Honore Johnson explains how Honduras solved the “last mile” problem in welfare payments by using biometric verification and QR codes to en...

Honore Johnson explains how Honduras solved the “last mile” problem in welfare payments by using biometric verification and QR codes to ensure cash transfers reach the right people transparently and accountably, even without bank accounts.
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What Principled Humanitarian Action Really Looks Like in Taliban-Governed Afghanistan - LSE International Development Drawing on a recent panel discussion, Principled Humanitarian Action in Fragile Settings: Insights from Afghanistan, chaired by LSE Professor Stuart Gordon, MSc Candidate Louisa Steijger explores the ...

What does principled humanitarian action really look like in Taliban-governed Afghanistan?

MSc Candidate Louisa Steijger argues it demands a clear-eyed understanding of Afghanistan's deep-rooted crisis, and a shift from short-term relief to sustained investment.

#Afghanistan #HumanitarianAction

Nation-Building in Bangladesh and the Global South: Lessons from the margins - LSE International Development Guest blogger and Founder of the U.S. - Bangladesh NextGen Policy Fellowship, Atif Ahmed Choudhury highlights that despite Bangladesh’s economic success, deep internal inequalities threaten its long-t...

Bangladesh’s growth story is undeniable, but who is being left behind?

Guest blogger Atif Ahmed Choudhury highlights deep internal inequalities and calls for more inclusive nation-building.
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Holy Guacamole – What America’s Avocado Obsession Reveals About its Border Politics - LSE International Development From Super Bowl guacamole to avocado toast, America's love affair with a Mexican superfood runs deeper than brunch culture and health trends. Behind the millennial obsession lies a story of cartel myt...

🥑 From Super Bowl #guacamole to avocado toast, America’s love affair with a Mexican superfood runs deeper than brunch culture and health trends.

Christina Tanner traces how a fruit became a mirror for US anxiety about #immigration, borders and the hidden human cost of our appetite.

Disruption and Displacement: Understanding the dual transformations of our time - LSE International Development LSE ID PhD candidate and Researcher at ODI, Harshita Sinha argues that climate change and artificial intelligence are creating parallel global disruptions that will lead to large-scale social and econ...

Harshita Sinha argues that climate change and AI are creating parallel global disruptions that will lead to large-scale social and economic displacement, and that proactive state governance is necessary to manage these transitions
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What role does advice play in making entrepreneurs resilient? David Lewis @lseid.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social & Luke Heslop (Brunel U London) report on their @afsee-lse.bsky.social research on advice-giving in Sri Lanka, w/ Anush Wijesinha (CSF, Colombo).

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Is Net Zero an Achievable Target or a Climate Fantasy? - LSE International Development Net Zero is often presented as a universal climate goal, but scientific projections, political inertia and stark global inequalities raise serious questions about whether it’s still achievable. MSc ca...

Is Net Zero an achievable target or a climate fantasy?

MSc candidate Amanda da Cruz Costa examines the data, the geopolitical landscape and the uneven impacts on the Global South to assess what reaching net zero would actually require.

Al Jazeera’s ‘Head to Head’ – Daniel Bwala Made Atrocity Amusing, and I Fell for It Dr. Daniel Bwala sat down with Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hasan for Head to Head to discuss Nigeria's escalating violence, mass kidnappings, and American military intervention.

Bwala’s Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan turned a serious debate on Nigeria’s violence into political performance. MSc IDHE candidate Ruth Otim reflects on how charm and theatrics risked obscuring real suffering.

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🔥This must‑read book will be launched at the London School of Economics (LSE) next Wednesday, March 18.

Register here to attend the launch: lnkd.in/eyswjav4

⛓️Do global value chains really reduce poverty and create better jobs? Join us for a discussion with Benjamin Selwyn exploring the realities of global production.

📅 18 Mar | 🕒 3:45–6:15pm📍 MAR.2.08, LSE

Join us on Friday for the launch of The Economics of Crime in Latin America: From Diagnosis to Policy Responses with Raphael Espinoza (@IMFNews), chaired by Jean-Paul Faguet.

🗓 Fri 13 March | 5–7pm 📍 Sumeet Valrani Lecture Theatre, LSE Campus

Al Jazeera’s ‘Head to Head’ – Venezuelan Regime Change as Liberation or Extraction? Vanessa Neumann, faced Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hassan in a Head to Head debate in which she sought to legitimize and defend the Trump‑ordered invasion and abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. ...

At Al Jazeera’s Head to Head, Vanessa Neumann defended a Trump‑ordered plan to invade Venezuela & abduct Maduro. MSc ID students Almitra Phukan & Jasmin Kelliher unpack the ethical + political implications of justifying invasion as “restoring democracy.”

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Al Jazeera’s ‘Head to Head’ – Venezuela, the ‘Donroe Doctrine,’ and the Illusion of Democratic Restoration Dr. Vanessa Neumann, joined Mehdi Hasan on Al Jazeera’s Head to Head to discuss "Does foreign-backed regime change in Venezuela offer a democratic solution or does it entrench crisis and polarization?...

Dr. Vanessa Neumann joined Mehdi Hasan on Al Jazeera’s Head to Head to debate whether foreign‑backed regime change can deliver democracy or instead deepens crisis.

MSc candidates Anandini Gupta and Amaya Lilles attended and reflect on the tensions raised: blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

How Technology can Empower Refugees, But Only if we Let It - LSE International Development Jessica Subbaraman analyses UNRWA Deputy Director Dr Valeria Cetorelli’s lecture and considers how data systems shape far more than humanitarian operations. They influence who is recognised, whose his...

What does it mean to exist in a database?

In a recent LSE lecture, UNRWA’s Dr Valeria Cetorelli challenged the audience to look beyond the technical side of humanitarian data.

MSc candidate Jessica Subbaraman reflects on why data is an anchor for history, identity, and survival.

Digital Humanitarianism in Crisis – Lessons from UNRWA - LSE International Development Myles Mordaunt draws on UNRWA Deputy Director Dr Valeria Cetorelli’s lecture to explore how humanitarian data systems operate under political pressure, material scarcity and constant threat. His analy...

Is academic critique a luxury?

Myles Mordaunt reflects on Dr Valeria Cetorelli’s (UNRWA) Lecture, exploring the gap btn ideal data ethics & the constrained choices of survival on the ground.

When physical records are under threat, digitisation becomes a vital tool for preserving refugee identity.

TRIPS, pharmaceutical patents, and generic competition in India AbstractIntroduction. India introduced pharmaceutical patents in response to the 1995 Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreeme

Ken Shadlen and co authors examine how a key TRIPS transitional rule, excluding drugs with pre-1995 global priority filings from patent eligibility in India, shaped “primary” patents and generic competition.

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How UN peacekeeping camps coexist with urban life - LSE Review of Books Maren Larsen's Worlding Home explores UN peacekeeping camps in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, revealing them as dynamic, porous and embedded in city life.

NEW ✨How UN peacekeeping camps coexist with urban life

Worlding Home: An Urban Ethnography of Peacekeeping Camps in Goma, DRC by Maren Larsen reviewed by @sdanielak.bsky.social @georgemasonu.bsky.social @unibas.ch

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Cutting-Edge Issues in Development – Analysis of Dr Ritika’s Talk on Parental School Choice and Majoritarian Politics in India - LSE International Development Last Friday, Dr Ritika Arora presented her PhD research on Parental School Choice and Majoritarian Politics in India in a Cutting-Edge Issues in Development lecture session, joined by Dr Laura Mann as...

Last week at #CuttingEdge, Dr Ritika Arora presented her vital PhD research on School Choice and Majoritarian Politics in #India.

Nidhi Shanbhogue’s recap explores how grassroots pressures and market dynamics allow prejudice to reshape India's modern classroom.

#LSE #Development #EducationPolicy

A full‑circle moment as Ritika Arora returns to LSE ID, years after writing about a Cutting‑Edge Lecture, to deliver one of her own.

Based on 230 interviews in Delhi, she shows how parental choice isn’t neutral and how everyday demands can fuel “bottom‑up Hindutva,”a form of religious nationalism.