Focus on the Global South
INET is invested in identifying the complex global interactions that influence poverty and development with a focus on strategies that have proven successful in promoting equitable growth, promoting capabilities, and reducing poverty.
INET in India (February 2024)
The media coverage of the INET team’s February 2024 visit to India. Prof. Michael Spence, Chair of the Commission on Global Economic Transformation (CGET), along with INET Governing Board Chair Dr. Rohinton Medhora, and INET President Dr. Rob Johnson, took part in this visit.
6th Annual UNCTAD YSI Summer School 2023
Dependency Theory & the Decolonization of Economics
Rethink global economics with Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven as she delves into the Eurocentric nature of the field and the role dependency theory could play in decolonizing it.
Political Economy of Contemporary South Asia
Two-day workshop on: Dialectics of Globalism and Nationalism, Inequality and Populism, Agrarian and Urban Crises, Data and Social Justice
High-level Panel Discussion: Development Prospects in a Fractured World
As 2022 comes to a close, panelists discuss the immediate prospects for the global economy, the dangers of a lost decade for developing countries and what needs to be done to put the SDGs back on track.
The Impact of the War in Ukraine on West Africa Requires a Disaggregated Analysis
An interview with Gilles Yabi, executive director of the West African Think Tank WATHI, on food security in Africa
Diversity Is Development
INET grantee Vamsi Vakulabharanam describes his work to gather parallel social threads—such as class, caste, gender and religion—to better understand the mechanisms of inequality in India, and why this can lead to better outcomes around the world.
The World Trade Organization After the 12th Ministerial Conference
New mandates must beget new organizing
China vs. West: New World Disorder
Paper: Digital Access and Economic Transformation in Africa
An overview of the current digital access landscape in Africa
Unshackling India for Economic Revival
Ajay Chhibber, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Institute of International Economic Policy, George Washington University, and India’s first Director General of Independent Evaluation with the status of Minister of State in 2013-14, discusses his co-authored book, Unshackling India, about what needs to happen for India’s economy to take off.
Dr John Nkengasong: A Collective Regional Approach Has Shown Its Power
An interview with John Nkengasong, Director of Africa CDC, about how a coordinated response to COVID-19 in Africa has proven to be effective