Nicky Pouw

Inclusive Agri-business #IAB learning event with 14 @WOTRO GCP research projects: afternoon program with six round table exchanges between policymakers & GCP project members, guided by specific policy IAB knowledge questions on entrepreneurial farmers, BoP innovation and scaling

In preparation for their end conference on 14&15 November in The Hague, all fourteen projects of the @WOTRO Food & Business Global Challenges Programme Call 1&2 have prepared final factsheets presenting their research results Download the factsheets here: knowledge4food.net/final-factshee…

Closing remarks of #thebrokerday by @Nicky_Pouw : we need to build bridges between policy & practice: build a structure, identify equalities & exceptions, collect opinions & facts, make comparisons. Key role for @thebrokeronline, knowledge platforms & other partners

Leaving no woman behind: an interview with UvA PhD candidate Janvier Kini - Centre for Sustainable Development Studies - University of Amsterdam csds.uva.nl/content/news/2…

Vanmiddag vertelt Anika Altaf aan alle collega's over haar onderzoek naar het bereiken van de allerarmsten. Wie zijn ze, hoe kunnen we ze bereiken en toekomstperspectief bieden?

From September '19 onwards: team-up with Anika Altaf and me to do your Master's research on 'how to leave no one behind in an unequal world' in a joint project

Can we truly leave no one behind in a world so unequal? - includeplatform.net/heres-how-to-t… by Anika Altaf

Comes highly recommended: The Politics of Referendum Use in European Democracies palgrave.com/us/book/978303… #springer by Saskia Hollander

Workshop report on our Kisumu women food entrepreneurship project now available

Rethinking the Economy from Ground Up developmentresearch.eu/?p=346 via @httpstwittercomEADI

Dichotomous thinking has long led economic theories astray - diversity and complexity thinking open up economics to new ideas going beyond bounded rationality to see 'purposeful behaviour' and 'contra-behaviour' to 'lack of options'.

Malawi brings forests back

“Without economic history, economics runs the risk of being too abstract or parochial, of failing to notice precedents, trends and cycles, of overlooking the long-run and thus misunderstanding ‘how we got here’” An exciting new book on economic history! blumandcolvin.org

@WhiskyTrotFox Thank you for your message and interest. Could you drop me an email: n.r.m.pouw@uva.nl and we can deliberate further. Kind regards, Nicky

In the coming term I am looking for students who want to do their MSc thesis research with me on who are the extreme poor and 'left behinds' in different countries and contexts, and unravel the mechanisms of their 'exclusion'; drop me an email

This would be great news if it would apply to all groups and regions in Africa - the inequality in terms health, schooling, security, etc. is still rampant

Francis Fukuyama against mainstream economics | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal voxeu.org/content/franci…

Save the date: 2020 @EADI conference on 'Solidarity, Peace and Social Justice' from 29 June-2 July at ISS in The Hague, the Netherlands @CSDS_UvA @thebrokeronline @INCLUDEplatform

Recommendation to IDS students: sign-up for free membership of @EADI with free access to the European Journal of Development Research and other benefits! eadi.org/student-member…

New @EADI book out on 'Building Development Studies for the New Millennium' by Isa Baud et al. (2019). Come highly recommend. @thebrokeronline @INCLUDEplatform @CSDS_UvA