Now would be a good time to subscribe to In Development, because our first article launches Thursday!
Works in Progress’ summer program for ambitious 18-to-22 year-olds, Invisible College, is back this summer. I’ve had the privilege to hang out with the Invisible College participants the last couple years, and they’ve raised my ambitions. Highly recommend.
Speaking of residencies and programs, the African School of Economics Zanzibar and the Charter Cities Institute also have some exciting opportunities. Applications for their professional diploma program in urban development (2026-2027 cohort) are open and there will be a two-week fellowship for builders and technologists in Zanzibar this summer as part of Zanzalu.
Would you like to do a dumb thing to find out information about the world? Inspired by the Citrini Research employee who took a speedboat out into the Strait of Hormuz,1 there’s a fellowship for that.
The Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative is looking for a new Deputy Director. I may be biased here, but Liz (the current director) is a gem and a joy to work with.
David Oks writes on kinship cultures and how they make economic development hard. I do think that Siobhan McDonough2 has a good counterpoint, though; East Asia also has a strong kinship culture and has seen extremely rapid economic growth.
Oliver Hanney writes on what a development economics of growth would look like.
Jerusalem Demsas writes for The Argument about how life has become low-variance for the American upper-middle class (and what that means for having a child).
Probably do not do this.
Whose work is also coming to In Development!