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.
INET-YSI Doctoral Scholars' Conference
Understanding India’s Northeast from Emerging Perspectives
India’s Leadership and Global Challenges of Climate and Finance
If we’re going to address environmental catastrophe, we need to support each other on a global scale. Rob Johnson checks in with Adair Turner about his work, and practical solutions to address the climate crisis.
6th Annual UNCTAD YSI Summer School 2023
Under the shared premise that no country alone can address the multiple challenges posed by intertwining and intensifying economic, social and environmental crises, this year’s lectures will discuss prospects and obstacles for a green and equitable transformation of the global economy.
Emerging Markets and the Balance of Payments: Challenges to Growth and Sustainability
A model that captures key vulnerabilities and structural weaknesses of developing countries’ trade and production structures.
The Two Global Consensuses That Defined the Development Paradigm in Ghana Are Under Threat
Honorary Vice President at IMANI Center for policy and education, Bright Simons, on the challenges Ghana is facing
Vikasarth 2022 Session 3: Industrialisation and the Case of Educated Unemployed
Thirty Years of Indian Economic Reforms: Assessing the Growth and Development of Kerala
Development, Climate Change & Capitalism
Ying Chen discusses her work to better understand development, labor and environmental impact in the Global South, focusing in particular on the realities of Chinese economic policy as it has evolved.
5th Annual UNCTAD-YSI Summer School
China vs. West: New World Disorder
The Toronto Star journalist Joanna Chiu discusses her book, China Unbound: A New World Disorder, which argues that we need to go beyond the typical over-simplifications of democratic West versus autocratic China if we hope to engage China in a way that seriously addresses issues such as human rights, climate change, and economic development.
China & U.S. - A Clash of Two Gilded Ages
Yuen Yuen Ang, political science professor at the University of Michigan and author of the book, China’s Gilded Age, argues that the US and China have more in common than we usually think and that it makes more sense to see the conflict as a clash of two gilded ages instead of a clash of civilizations.