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Events & Workshops

Membership
Participation
Collaboration

19 June 2025

Online Meeting: Working Group on Citizenship and Civil Society in Development, 19 June 2025 11.00 CET

Newcomers Invited!

We (Nicola Banks, Willem Elbers, and Lau Schulpen) recently took over the convenorship of the EADI Working Group on ‘Citizenship and Civil Society in…

24 September 2025

NorDev25: Solidarity, Social Justice and Sustainability

24-26 September 2025, Ås, Norway

We're proud and happy to be partners at this year's NorDev Conference!

06 November 2025

Development Research Communications Workshop, Berlin, 06-07 November 2025

Save the Date!

Mark your calendars for the next in-person workshop of our Research Communications Working Group at ISDC in Berlin on 06 and 07 November 2025!

Progra…

29 June 2026

EADI/IOB General Conference 2026, Antwerp, Belgium (hybrid), 29 June - 02 July 2026

Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)Local Solutions?

We're happy to announce that our next flagship event, the EADI General Conference, will be taking place at the Institute of Development Policy (IOB)…

Blog

Debating
Development
Research

Decolonizing Expertise: Reflections on Power, Knowledge, and Governance in International Organizations (IOs)

17 June 2025 - Marine Gauthier - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

A Personal Reckoning with Expertise: My engagement with international development has always been entangled with postcolonial sensitivities—an awareness shaped by my Belgian family’s colonial past, my…

Is Postdevelopment a Theory of Development? Situating Postdevelopment in Social Theory

04 June 2025 - Aram Ziai - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

Four decades after its beginnings, postdevelopment (PD) has become an established approach in development theory. Its core claim that we should ‘reject the entire paradigm of development’ and look for…

EADI at 50: Thinking Through the Winter, Looking to the Spring and the Next Chapter

27 May 2025 - Andy Sumner - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

We marked EADI’s 50th anniversary with a conference last week. As EADI president I reflect on this jubilee moment drawing from my opening remarks. Anniversaries are an opportunity for both…

From SDGs to GPTs: Trading Solidarity for AI Automation?

20 May 2025 - Ron Salaj - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

In this historical moment of a deepening global polycrisis, artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to emerge as the new knowledge regime promising to transform the world. This has been amplified with the…

The End of Development Aid?

13 May 2025 - Aram Ziai - European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI)

In the last few months, our object of research has seen some dramatic changes. I am referring to the de-facto dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) after the…

Member Publications

Highlight Publications
Open Access
EADI members

Poverty in Latin America. Feelings/Perceptions vs Material Conditions

26 May 2025 - Verónica Amarante, Maire Colacce & Federico Scalese - United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

This book derives subjective poverty lines for seven Latin American countries based on a Minimum Income Question included in household expenditure surveys. It compares poverty incidence under the…

Towards food policies that support healthy and sustainable consumption - Case studies from 11 European countries highlighting good practices for demand-side policies

19 May 2025 - Stephanie Wunder, Charlie Brocard et al. - Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI)

This report gathers analyses of demand-side food policies in 11 European countries. Each case study provides background information on the country’s progress towards better coordinated, thus…

The Making of an International Investment Facilitation Framework. Legal, Political and Economic Perspectives

07 April 2025 - Axel Berger, Manjiao Chi (eds.) - German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

This book comprehensively investigates the rationale and effects of the first multilateral agreement on investment facilitation for development, including the interests of key WTO members. It adopts a…

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