I recently published the post Diversity and Excellence: Not A Zero Sum Game along with colleagues for the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s (INET) blog series “Diversity and Pluralism in Economics: Problems and Solutions”.
Author: Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Lecturer in International Development at the University of York, among other things.
New blog post: Samir Amin and Beyond
I recently had the pleasure of publishing on Samir Amin in one of my favorite blogs, Africa is a Country, along with my colleagues Ushehwedu Kufakurinani and Maria Dyveke Styve. Read the whole piece here.
Women in Politics – Panel Discussion
Read about the Women in Politics panel I participated in alongside IGDC colleagues, in celebration of International Women’s Day.
New op-ed on fossil fuel fee (Norwegian)
Along with Rune Skarstein, Anders Skonhoft, Olav Fagerlid, Lars Mjøset, Ida Sognnæs, Ebba Boye, Knut Alfsen, Per Espen Stoknes, Anders Ekeland, and Solveig Glomsrød, I argue for an effective and fair fee on fossil fuel production in the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen. Read the full essay here (in Norwegian).
The Tyranny of Metrics – Panel Discussion
On February 9th 2019, I presented on a panel with Desmond McNeill (Centre for Development and Environment, University of Oslo) and Morten Jerven (Norwegian University of Life Sciences). I presented specifically on the politics of GDP measurement (based on this recent working paper I co-authored with Jacob Assa). The panel was a part of the Rethinking Sustainability conference organized by Rethinking Economics, Norway. My slides can be found here. [Note: the video is in Norwegian]
Samir Amin’s Legacy and Relevance Today (DSA 2019 Panel)
Please consider submitting to this panel on the legacy of Samir Amin that I am co-convening with Maria Dyveke Styve (University of Bergen) and Ushehwedu Kufakurinani (University of Zimbabwe) at the Development Studies Association (DSA) conference at the Open University, Milton Keynes, June 19th to 21st 2019. Continue reading “Samir Amin’s Legacy and Relevance Today (DSA 2019 Panel)”
New Working Paper: Imputing Away the Ladder?
I recently published Imputing Away the Ladder? Implications of Changes in National Accounting Standards for Assessing Inter-country Inequalities as a Working Paper with Jacob Assa with the Global Poverty and Inequality Dynamics Research Network.
Read our blog post for the GPID network here. I also summarized our arguments in a Twitter thread.
Our findings were also covered in UnHerd. You can download our data here.
Book Review: The Global Political Economy of Raúl Prebisch
I recently published a review of The Global Political Economy of Raúl Prebisch (ed. by Matias Margulis, 2017) in the Review of Radical Political Economics. Download the review here.
Short videos on development
A Critical Approach to Development Economics (Video)
The Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC) recently filmed a snippet about one of my current research projects (with my colleague Collin Constantine). Check it out below.