'....'I'm okay' I answered & I wished I were not there among people who used pronouns like us & them.' Here's a still-archived link to Joanna Chen's heartwrenching (& subsequently, appallingly 'cancelled) essay, 'From the Edges of a Broken World'. archive.is/S2je0

My take on 'Political Settlements and Development: Theory, Evidence, Implications' by Tim Kelsall Nicolai Schulz William D. Ferguson Matthias vom Hau @bryanlevy Sam Hickey Brian Levy, published in the Journal of Development Studies (JDS):

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Congratulations to The Nelson Mandela School ‘s Musa Nxele for the successful completion of an extraordinarily ambitious PhD research agenda (in-depth qualitative & quantitative). Praise & appreciation from international panel of examiners kunal sen Ishac Diwan &Alan Gelb. Remi Bazillier

Congratulations to @MusaNxele for a brilliant public defense of his PhD at Sorbonne Development Economics . The high profile examiners kunal sen Alan Gelb & Ishac Diwan were hugely complimentary of both the work and Musa’s grace & thoughtfulness under pressure. A tour de force! Remi Bazillier

🚨NEW PUBLICATION! 🚨

In World Development, I compare the relationship between urban social movements and local state capacity in São Paulo and Johannesburg.

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After his graduation at UCT The Nelson Mandela School, Musa Nxele will defend his PhD at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne on october 13th. Great achievement already for Musa and joint UCT Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne PhD cosupervised by Brian Levy and myself. Looking forward the defense! Sorbonne Development Economics

Congratulations Musa Nxele

For my current writing on subnational interactions between education bureaucracies & civil society in South Africa Akshay Mangla｜अक्षय मंगला's book is THE indispensable resource. But none of my co-authors can afford its outrageous price. When Cambridge University Press - Politics will a paperback edition be issued?

As the excellent thread below illustrates, a Just Energy Transition brings major political & social (as well as technological) challenges. In politically fraught contexts, making the transition will require extraordinary political skill. Crispian Olver

CONGRATULATIONS to you Musa Nxele !!! It has been a truly inspiring experience to make the journey to your PhD with you. Well done!!
The Nelson Mandela School Alan Hirsch

The fall of an unconstrained autocrat leaves behind a vacuum. All manner of gangster-style morbid symptoms will follow, a terrifying prospect in the neighborhood of world’s second largest nuclear arsenal. Mikhail Khodorkovsky‘s proposal is timely

and then moderately increasing inequality until 2019. There was a break in methodology in 1993 (hence the sudden increase) and there are significantly lower Ginis during covid. But whether that would last is not obvious.

New LIS based on US Current Population Survey show harmonized data on US income distribution since 1963. Thus almost 60 years of detailed data! The graph clearly delineates three eras: rapidly decreasing inequality 1963-1980, rapidly increasing inequality 1980-1992,

The perils - and possibilities - of 2023 global geopolitics in a time of war. A superb piece by the thoughtful, farsighted and brave Fiona Hill. lmc.icds.ee/lennart-meri-l…