📄Working paper: Degradation by design: Money, finance & structural drive towards environmental crisis ⬇️Link: go.networkideas.org/3TPI7ca ✍️Author: Jeffrey Althouse of @univ_spn This paper advances what can be called “political ecology of money & finance”. While economists often consider money to be neutral medium of exchange, this approach insists that monetary & financial arrangements are more than mere economic tools. Instead, money & finance should be understood as socio-ecological institutions: they organize relationships between people & environments; define what counts as value; & structure who bears the costs & who reaps the benefits of production & consumption.

**WATCH LIVESTREAM TODAY AT 9:30AM UTC** 📌Event: Lecture for Advanced Certificate Programme on Research in Political Economy 🗨️Topic: Contrasting East Asia’s Economic Miracles 🗣️Lecturer: Jomo Kwame Sundaram 📱Scan QR or visit go.networkideas.org/4hxVsOn

🗣️ Our Global Research Director, C. P. Chandrasekhar, talks about capital mobility & domestic policy space. 📹This video was taken during conference "Towards new multilateralism: Cooperation for development in a world without hegemons", held last month in Beijing, China, in partnership w/ @Tsinghua_Uni's School of Marxism. More info: go.networkideas.org/4bY2cTD

📌Political Economy Exchange & Research (PEER) Forum on #FeministEconomics in Latin America & Caribbean 🗓️9 Oct at 5:00-6:45pm (GMT-3) ✍️go.networkideas.org/4AogozT 🗣️Spanish, Portuguese or English w/ AI-generated interpretation available The IDEAs LAC PEER Forum is space for academic exchange, collaboration & debate that brings students & other individuals taking their first steps in #PoliticalEconomy research in #LatinAmerica & Caribbean.

📄𝐏𝐀𝐏𝐄𝐑: Breaking adjustment cycle in Africa: Senegal under IMF debt restructuring & independent parliamentary oversight ✍️Author: @YassineFall, Senegalese economist + former minister of @diplomatieSN & @MinjustSn ⏬Download: go.networkideas.org/4xF2Ltp @SonkoOfficiel

📌Event via Zoom: IDEAs Political Economy Reading Circle 📚Topic: "Maria da Conceicao Tavares: Development, demand-driven growth & American hegemony" 🎓Guided by: Matias Vernengo 🗓 Sched: 7, 14 & 21 Oct at 6-8pm (UTC -3) ✍️Register: forms.gle/7QvhGSLv16LSEDSq7 🗣 Main language: Spanish w/ AI-generated translated text for other languages PERC is an online initiative that brings Latin American & Caribbean students & researchers for collective reading, discussion & critical exchange on key thinkers in political economy. Next month, Vernengo of @BucknellU/@BUpublicpolicy will guide a 3-session workshop on the author Maria da Conceicao Tavares, w/ participants expected to read selected materials in advance & engage in discussions. @NakedKeynes

👩🏻Hoang Phuong Thao, Country Representative of @ActionAid Vietnam, talks about labour condition & social protection in @ASEAN countries. 📹This video was taken at conference "Towards a new multilateralism: Cooperation for development in a world without hegemons", held last month in Beijing, China, in partnership w/ @tsinghua_uni's School of Marxism. More info: go.networkideas.org/4bY2cTD

📖𝐏𝐀𝐏𝐄𝐑: Breaking adjustment cycle in Africa: Senegal under IMF debt restructuring & independent parliamentary oversight ⬇️Download: go.networkideas.org/4xF2Ltp ✍🏻Author: @YassineFall, Senegalese economist + former minister of @diplomatieSN & @MinjustSn 📄Overview: On 1 Sep 2026, @IMFNews & Senegalese authorities announced staff-level agreement on new Extended Credit Facility of approximately $2.2 billion over 36 months, designed to support 2026–2029 economic & financial reform programme. This agreement comes after nearly 2 years of suspension of previous IMF programmes, triggered by discovery in 2024 of concealed debt equivalent to approximately 25% of GDP under @Macky_Sall administration — bringing recognised public debt to over 130% of GDP, one of highest ratios on continent. This paper offers tripartite reading. First, it situates Sep 2026 restructuring agreement within continuity of well-documented orthodox adjustment grammar — fiscal consolidation, accounting sustainability, governance conditionality — whose history reveals structural limitations for dependent, commodity-exporting economies. Second, it integrates parliamentary dimension analyzing substantive divergence between 2 divergent policy approaches, Programme de Restructuration Èconomique et Sociale entitled “Jubbanti Koom” (PRES ), spearheaded by then Prime Minister @SonkoOfficiel in Aug 2025 as response to budgetary constraints generated by hidden debt & DPG presented by Prime Minister @alaminoulo on 8 Sep 2026. Third, it situates Senegalese experience within broader historical & empirical record of structural adjustment in Africa & developing world — a record whose failures constitute necessary context for evaluating current programme.

💬In this video, @ALICIAGIRON3 talks on #BrettonWoods monetary system & external debt. She's the @pueaao_unam director at @UNAM_MX. 📺This video was taken at conference "Towards a new multilateralism: Cooperation for development in a world without hegemons", held last month in Beijing, China, in partnership w/ @Tsinghua_Uni's School of Marxism. More info: go.networkideas.org/4bY2cTD

🏗️Development is not only constrained by what countries produce. It is also constrained by who finances them. ❓Can Latin American countries pursue structural transformation while remaining dependent on international creditors & financial markets? 📚This new IDEAs report revisits relationship between commodity dependence, financial dependence & #EconomicSovereignty. Download: go.networkideas.org/3UnsPvh

**TODAY AT 1:30PM (GMT -3) ✍️go.networkideas.org/4x7XBpx 📚Public talk via Zoom on "Latin America at crossroads: When old (extractivism) is exhausted, but the new has yet to emerge" 🗣️Jose Gabriel Palma 🔤Translated AI-generated captions available 📌We invite students, researchers & academics to IDEAs LAC Political Economy Exchange & Research (PEER) Forum, focusing on climate change & ecological economics in Latin America & Caribbean. The forum provides space for academic debate, collaboration & exchange among advanced students & early-career political economy researchers.

📌Panel Event: IMF in Asia & Latin America: Historical & contemporary reckoning 🗓️Sched: 14 Oct, 9:30-13:15 (Bangkok time) ✋Participation mode: Hybrid. * go.networkideas.org/4h8hEhM (via Zoom) * forms.gle/NjK2it47UMBJSjSu6 (In-person at Crowne Plaza Bangkok Lumpini Park) @IMFNews occupies central & contested position in political economy of Global South. Its role as crisis manager, policy arbiter & creditor of last resort has shaped developmental trajectories of nations across Asia & Latin America for over 4 decades. This panel is a discussion of 2 research reports by IDEAs on state of indebtedness in Latin America & Asia. "The IMF-LAC Monitor" (go.networkideas.org/4qh6wmE) addresses critical gap in literature by examining IMF's lending & conditionality across Latin America & Caribbean, w/ special attention to 17 countries that currently maintain some form of engagement w/ IMF. Another report, "The Debt & Compounding Vulnerabilities in Asia", focuses on 3 smaller, vulnerable countries w/ diverse political & economic characteristics: Laos, Maldives & Cambodia.

💬"The most critical reason for China's ability to transfer from dependent on foreign technology to digital innovation is the emergence of a group of innovative firms" -- Feng Kaidong, professor at Tsinghua University. 📺This video was taken during the conference "Towards a new multilateralism: Cooperation for development in a world without hegemons", held last month in Beijing, China, in partnership w/ @Tsinghua_Uni's School of Marxism. More info: go.networkideas.org/4bY2cTD