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🌍 Are we living in an “age of security”?
MSc students Khushi Gupta & Saleeta Akbar reflect on Prof Ruben Andersson’s lecture on his new book Age of Security, part of our Cutting-Edge Issues in Development series.
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@LSEDataScience @LSE_ID @LSEInequalities @LSEGenderTweet @IAFFE @devcomms @IDS_UK @Bigd_BracU
The vital importance of sex-disaggregated data - a plea.
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Professor Jean-Paul Faguet features in a Deutsche Welle report on Pakistan’s economic future.
The video explores whether the creation of new provinces could help boost economic development in Pakistan.
Watch the report and find out more 👇
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How can we put human rights at the heart of post-crisis development? 🌍
Yesterday at LSE, researchers and practitioners came together to explore this question.
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Following on from our conversation on putting human rights at the heart of post-crisis development…
MSc student Trisha Purnaiya shares her reflections on the discussion and what a human rights approach can bring to sustainable recovery
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Localisation has three parts: delivery, money and decision-making.
Drawing on Educate Girls’ experience, ID alumna Martina Baltazar asks what happens when delivery is local, but the definition of success may remain elsewhere.
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#Localisation
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What’s it really like to spend nine months working inside the UK Parliament?
EPID alum Bahrathi Keeping reflects on her LSE Parliamentary Internship, working as a Policy Assistant to Dr Ellie Chowns MP.
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#LSEParlimentaryInternship
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🌍What happens if the world exceeds 1.5°C?
Ahead of @turkiyecop31, ID alum Katia Konopelko explores UNEP’s Limiting Overshoot report, the realities of climate action and possible pathways towards returning below 1.5°C.
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#COP31 #UNEP
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Only 17% of SDG targets were on track in 2024.
In a new blog, Lennart Fleck asks why development remains so focused on technical solutions while continuing to sideline politics.
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#SDGs #InternationalDevelopment
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What role should law play in shaping the future of health data in Africa?
MSc student Emy Eapen reflects on Professor Sharifah Sekalala's lecture for our Cutting-Edge Issues in Development Thinking and Practice series.
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Patrick Mcveigh, co-winner of the 2026 LSE Africa Dissertation Prize sponsored by @AfricaAtLSE, reflects on how a fascination with carbon markets, land rights and REDD+ in East Africa shaped both his award-winning dissertation and his career with the UN. shorturl.at/hxUZY
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LSE alum Sophie Freeland-Haynes manages the UK's £4bn trade relationship with Indonesia. She believes the value of Development Studies lies in learning to question assumptions, interrogate evidence and challenge conventional wisdom.
@UKinIndonesia
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Prof. @N_Kabeer (Professorial Fellow, BIGD) has won the 2026 @ACLS Open Access Book Prize in Political Science for "Renegotiating Patriarchy," a look into how ordinary women drove Bangladesh's social progress.
📖 Read it free: doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.rp…
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Professor Stuart Gordon explores why data literacy belongs in qualitative humanitarian education in this new LSE HE Blog post.
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Why should students on a qualitative humanitarian programme learn data analysis? For LSE Stuart Gordon the answer isn't employability. It's about seeing how the evidence is made, whose experiences the numbers hide & critical scrutiny of quantitative claims blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat…
ALT Tight crop of the IPC projection maps for June 2026 to January 2027 covering 56 of Sudan’s 195 localities and IDP settlements, showing part of Sudan
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Why should students on a qualitative humanitarian programme learn data analysis? For LSE Stuart Gordon the answer isn't employability. It's about seeing how the evidence is made, whose experiences the numbers hide & critical scrutiny of quantitative claims blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat…
ALT Tight crop of the IPC projection maps for June 2026 to January 2027 covering 56 of Sudan’s 195 localities and IDP settlements, showing part of Sudan
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From the Norwegian monarchy to the leadership of Scottish Labour, 2 alumni of LSE ID have recently assumed roles with huge influence over national public life. King Haakon VIII of Norway & @michaeljmarra, are both graduates of LSE's MSc Development Studies shorturl.at/PavzP
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After an unconventional journey from dentistry to global health advocacy, MSc Health & International Development alum Abhijit Dhillon reflects on how studying development changed the questions she asks about power, policy, and health systems. shorturl.at/aaR04
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New on the ID Blog: Can low- and middle-income countries cut carbon intensity as effectively as richer economies?
Research by Dr Meghna Chotaliya (@MeghnaChot) suggests they can. The real gap isn't ability, it's access to cleaner fuels.
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LSE ID's Dr Myfanwy James has published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, examining mutual suspicions of corruption in humanitarian responses in eastern DRC between humanitarian colleagues, as well as humanitarians & the people they are there to assist. shorturl.at/hxs5a
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🌟 New 🌟 Since LSE, @marienoelleobj has built a career tackling issues of economic transformation, investment & job creation. Here, she shares lessons from her journey and advice for International Development students.
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