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🔊 Designing cities in developing countries: Land planning, slum upgrading and reconstruction programmes Last month on VoxDevTalks, Tim Phillips Talk Normal spoke to Vernon Henderson LSE Geography & Environment & Maisy Wong The Wharton School about designing urban policy in LMICs: voxdev.org/topic/migratio…

In a new VoxEU column, Roberta Rabellotti, Vito Amendolagine and I show that, by lowering trade costs, Chinese infrastructure loans are linked to increased participation in #GVCs, particularly in downstream sectors. Through this channel, Chinese lending could contribute to export growth and

No better time to attend Political Economy of IOs PEIO/RIO conference Harvard Department of Government than the week when 2nd Trump presidency starts. Check out our paper w ChristophMikulaschek on “How Media Coverage Shapes the Effect of IOs on Public Attitudes" IPS FSV CUNI GLOWIN

And a new Economic Development and Cultural Change paper by L Wellner Axel Dreher Andreas Fuchs Parks and Austin Strange uses an instrumental variables approach to show that this relationship might extend to Chinese aid as well after all. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Check out the papers of the 17th PEIO (PEIO/RIO , Harvard University, Jan 23-25) at peio.me. Please save the date for our next PEIO, hosted by IE University in Segovia, Spain, on January 29-31, 2026. Thanks to Nikitas Konstantinidis for hosting us there!

*Extremely* timely EDCC article #econtwitter #econsky about effectiveness of foreign aid in building soft power. . .for China! Completion of Chinese foreign aid projects ⬆️ support for Chinese gov in recipient countries L Wellner Axel Dreher Andreas Fuchs Austin Strange

Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization Conference (PEIO/RIO) at IE University in Segovia, Spain, January 29-31, 2026. Submission is now open at peio.me. Thanks Nikitas Konstantinidis for hosting!

Some thoughts on the suspension of USAID in an interview with WirtschaftsWoche: wiwo.de/politik/auslan… (in German)

And, in rapid succession, The Invisible Hand(out) is now available Oxford Academic or Amazon. Get your library to pre-order & we'll use the royalties to split a Coke! (Book workshop members, you get a full Coke - on the house) global.oup.com/academic/produ… tiny.cc/7rha001

The RIO allows manuscripts rejected at APSR, IO, ISQ to be transferred to RIO (and v.v.). Interested in discussing the draft of RIO’s transfer policy? Share your thoughts and suggstions for improvement: shorturl.at/9jbQb, PEIO/RIO, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, American Political Science Review

Aid is about to be weaponised. The hard-nosed enforcers of the emerging approach are willing to sacrifice spending that did lots of good econ.st/43w8lCX

The Review of International Organizations invites papers using geocoded data on foreign aid for a special issue “Analyzing Global Development with the Geocoded Official Development Assistance Dataset (GODAD).” See godad.me, godad.uni-goettingen.de/uploads/RIO_GO…

Heute ist ein sehr trauriger Tag für alle Aktiven, Ehemaligen und Freunde der ifo Niederlassung Dresden. Mit Unverständnis sehe ich die Kürzungen des Freistaats in der Wissenschaft. Die VWL-Standort an der TU Dresden schrumpft damit weiter. 1/ tagesschau.de/inland/regiona….

📢New working paper with Kirill Borusyak: "Optimal Formula Instruments"! We derive the most powerful recentered IVs for treatments given by complex formulas, and propose an algorithm for approximating them in practice This approach yields *huge* power gains, relative to a

Study #Development #Economics in #Göttingen! We accept applications for our Master of students with either citizenship or Bachelor from EU/EEA countries until May 15. More info: uni-goettingen.de/en/203661.html. Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät Göttingen Uni Göttingen Centre for Modern Indian Studies, CeMIS

Submitting your paper to the 15th edition of #EconomicsOfGlobalInteractions, this year September 8-9. Keynote speakers: Paola Conconi (Oxford) and Axel Dreher (Heidelberg). Deadline for submissions: May 25. Rune Jansen Hagen Kjetil Bjorvatn bit.ly/2Wmqi1t

📢 Excited to share the program for the 7th Annual CefES Conference on the Economics and Politics of Europe, hosted by CefES Research Center and Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca on June 12–13! 🎤 Keynote speakers: Massimo Morelli, Universita Bocconi Layna Mosley, Princeton School of Public & International Affairs 📄 Program 👇 editorialexpress.com/conference/7IC…

We are kicking off our 7th CefES Conference on European Economics & Politics! Featuring keynote addresses by Lyana Mosley (Princeton University) and Massimo Morelli (Universita Bocconi) CefES Research Center Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Silvia Marchesi Axel Dreher

📢New deep-dive paper on China’s BRI lending (Georgetown/AidData/Kiel). We study "How China Collateralizes" its overseas loans — not with ports/infrastructure, but with cash in Chinese bank accounts. The techniques and volumes are striking.🧵Paper here: ifw-kiel.de/fileadmin/Date…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20389 Foreign Aid and Targeted Political Violence Axel Dreher Uni Heidelberg KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Jingke Pan Uni Heidelberg, Christina Schneider UC San Diego ow.ly/Kly050Wie3G #CEPR_DE #CEPR_PoE #EconTwitter