Rising debt & pervasive conditionality continue to shape International Monetary Fund’s role across Global South. Join us at IDEAs event “The IMF in Asia & Latin America: Historical & Contemporary Reckoning” to discuss these & other key findings from IDEAs’ research on the Fund’s evolving role. 🔴Bangkok | October 14 | Hybrid event go.networkideas.org/4ADKvDk

📌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

📌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.

**WATCH LIVESTREAM** Scan QR or visit go.networkideas.org/4hxVsOn 📌Event: Lecture for Advanced Certificate Programme on Research in Political Economy 💬Topic 1: Rents, the state, economic surplus & development 💬Topic 2: Contrasting East Asia’s economic miracles 📅Dates: 21 Sep (for Topic 1) & 25 Sep (for Topic 2) ⏲️Time: 3pm (India time) or 9:30am (UTC) 🗣️Lecturer: Jomo Kwame Sundaram @ksjomo is @KRInstitute research advisor, @akademisains fellow & @unimalaya emeritus prof. He was an IDEAs founding chair, a UN Asst Sec-Gen for Economic Development & honorary research coordinator for G24 Intergovernmental Group on Int'l Monetary Affairs & Development from 2005. He was awarded w/ 2007 Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing Frontiers of Economic Thought, several honorary doctorates & 2026 @TWASnews' Award in Social Sciences.

**QUICK REMINDER FOR TODAY** 📌 Event: IDEAs Political Economy Reading Circle 📚 Topic: "Raúl Prebisch: The genesis of underdevelopment theory" 🎓 Guided by: Esteban Perez Caldentey 🗓 Sched: 2, 9 & 16 Sept | starts at 6pm (UTC -3) 💻 Participation mode: Online via Zoom 🗣 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. This month, Esteban Perez Caldentey will guide a 3-session workshop on the author Raúl Prebisch, w/ participants expected to read selected materials in advance & engage in discussions.

✍️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 🗓️18 Sept, 1:30pm (GMT-3) 🔤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.

✊🏼Support the creation of International Panel on Inequality (IPI) at @UN to tackle global inequality crisis. ✍🏼Please sign open letter & encourage others to do the same: bit.ly/3Sd8dVW Last week, over 40 academics signed & sent an open letter to UK prime minister @andyburnham, urging him to attend the UN meeting & support the IPI initiative: bit.ly/4cgqQ1W

**WATCH ONLINE** youtube.com/live/Q9SMHBrEb4k 📌Event: Lectures for Advanced Certificate Programme on Research in Political Economy 🗣️Lecturer: Erik S. Reinert 📅Date: 31 Aug at 3pm (India time) or 9:30am UTC 💬Topic: From reciprocity to market economy: The world of Karl Polanyi & economic policy in early Italian city states 📅Date: 2 Sep at 3pm (India time) or 9:30am UTC 💬Topic: Fashions & mechanisms of development policies: From Renaissance to Cold War 📅Date: 4 Sep at 3pm (India time) or 9:30am UTC 💬Topic: Matching the toolbox of theories & historical experience to today's context

📌 Event: IDEAs Political Economy Reading Circle (PERC) 📚 Topic: "Raúl Prebisch: The genesis of underdevelopment theory" 🎓 Guided by: Esteban Pérez Caldentey 🗓 Schedule: 2, 9 & 16 Sep at 10:00-12:00, UTC -3 🔗 Scan QR or visit link to register: forms.gle/7QvhGSLv16LSEDSq7 💻 Participation mode: Online via Zoom 🗣 Main language: Spanish w/ AI-generated translated text for other language PERC is a new online initiative that brings together Latin American & Caribbean students & researchers for collective reading, discussion & critical exchange on key thinkers in political economy. In September, Esteban Perez Caldentey will guide a 3-session workshop on author Raúl Prebisch, w/ participants expected to read selected materials in advance & to engage in discussions.

💻Webinar: National planning: The Soviet Union model 🗓️Schedule: 3 August, 10:30 UTC 👩🏻‍🏫Moderator: @farwasial 👨🏻‍🏫Discussants: Prabhat Patnaik and @cpc01 👉Register: Scan QR or visit go.networkideas.org/zoomrcp 📌This webinar is the second in the series "Reviving central planning: A Global South perspective", which aims to explore the basics of central planning as they existed around the world and understand the relevance of planned development today. The discussions will focus on the diverse cases of Russia, Eastern Europe, and East Asia to provide a historical analysis of their respective planning models, an assessment of the strengths and limitations of their implementation of these models, as well as an introduction to the rich analysis that emerged from the economic debates and ideas of economists on the idea of and the actual experience with planning.