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.
Monsoon School on Inequality 2025
The focus of this year’s monsoon school is on pluralistic approaches to research on inequality, bringing together perspectives from varied streams of economic thought. It will provide an interactive platform for advanced-level PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and scholars affiliated with Indian research institutes to engage with diverse concepts, debates, and methodologies related to inequality.
Poverty. Development. Globalisation
Two weeks of dialogues on Poverty, Development, Globalisation
The Political Economy of Ecological Change and Economic Security in the Global South
The intricacies of the political economy that play out across countries in the Global South have profound significance for understanding the nature of ecological change and economic security that confront our world today.
6th Annual UNCTAD YSI Summer School 2023
Subsidizing Chemical Fertilizers is Counterproductive
By reducing our reliance on chemical fertilizers, policymakers could turn today’s food crisis into a genuine opportunity towards shifting subsidies from agribusiness-led to agroecological-led farming systems
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.
Inclusive Development: Role of Employment and Environment
Inclusive development especially the role of employment opportunities in a changing world of work and the environment in envisioning inclusiveness
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.
China’s Development Path: Indigenous Innovation and Global Competition
China’s successful technological development path stands in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States
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.
China vs. West: New World Disorder
Special Drawing Rights and Elasticity in the International Monetary System
How could the new SDR allocation help developing countries?