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.

Event

Meeting of Young Minds in Frontiers of Economics (MYM)

Feb 20–22, 2024

Challenges And Emerging Perspectives

Event

LEPC VI: Ideas for Building the Future

Feb 16–18, 2024

Article

We Need a Double Pronged Public-Private Approach to Food Security

By Camilla Toulmin and Folashadé Soulé

Jul 19, 2023

Article

Africa’s Crisis Is Also an Opportunity

By Camilla Toulmin and Folashadé Soulé

Dec 12, 2023

Podcasts

India’s Leadership and Global Challenges of Climate and Finance

Oct 26, 2023

YSI Event

6th Annual UNCTAD YSI Summer School 2023

Aug 28–31, 2023

Article

Subsidizing Chemical Fertilizers is Counterproductive

By Jayati Ghosh and Lynn Fries

Jul 13, 2023

Video

Dependency Theory & the Decolonization of Economics

Featuring Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

Jul 5, 2023

Event

Political Economy of Contemporary South Asia

Oct 13–14, 2023

Article

Should We Focus on the Problems of the Elite, or Those Faced by the Majority of the African Population?

By Camilla Toulmin and Folashadé Soulé

Apr 20, 2023

Professor Youba Sokona, Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and African energy specialist, on how the Ukraine conflict had re-shaped thinking amongst many Africans, and on the transformation in leadership needed to address the problems faced by the majority of Africa’s people.

Article

Another Debt Crisis in the Global South? Economist Reveals the Key to Understanding It

By Lynn Parramore

Apr 17, 2023

Martin Guzman, Argentina’s former Minister of Economy, explains how the role of power should be central to economic research – especially when it comes to sovereign debt.

Article